On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:55:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my
>>> iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and
>>> forwarding is set up for my virtual network. For the life of me I can
>>> not figure out where these rules are defined, and I would like to
>>> make some changes that I want to be permanent. Would anyone mind
>>> enlightening me as where I can find the source of those rules?
>>>
>>> grep -RIil iptables /etc/* returns nothing.
>>
>> If You want to set Your own rules, You can write it to a file where You
>> want to hold it, then You can put a script w/ execution bit set in
>>
>> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
>>
>> that will read those files.
>>
>> As soon as the interface comes up, Your rules will come up too (in case
>> it is correct - otherwise the defaults will be used).
>
> I haven't had very good luck putting iptables rules in
> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d while using network-manager. Last I read,
> there's a bug/feature in network-manager that ignores if-pre-up.d.
> Instead, I have to use the iptables-persistent package.

Out of the box, the NM dispatcher script runs scripts in "if-up.d" and
not in "if-pre-up.d".

To the OP: AFAIK, if you set up a nat-based VM, libvirt/qemu'll set up
the rules that you're seeing. If they're in a grepable form, there'll
probably be under "/usr".


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