On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:29:39 +0000, Mick wrote:

> > > Why do wikis and the like suggest that iptables should be in default
> > > rather than boot runlevel?  
> > 
> > Why not? There's no need to start it especially early, as long as it
> > is running before the network comes up, and the init script takes
> > care of that.  
> 
> I haven't seen anything in net.lo that waits for iptables and I seem to
> recall that the network interfaces are started before iptables is run,
> unless I start iptables at boot level.

The iptables init script contains "before net".


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Neil Bothwick

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