On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Mr Cornish Rex wrote:
cr> I use SuSE 6.1 but I dont start ipchains until I have connected -
cr>
cr> Here is my /etc/ppp/ip-up script ( It gets called by pppd not diald )
cr> by calling it from pppd it gets initialised quicker.
I did something similar, but put everything in its own file and I have
ip-up call it rather then adding things to a file thats normally
controlled by a package install. Thus instead of losing all the rules, you
lose one line that calls your rules files in case something goes wrong
somewhere.
cr>
cr> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Clifford wrote:
cr> > I'm currently setting up the ipchains rules set supplied with SuSE 6.3
cr> > but i'm having problems starting them up from rc2.d and the like. My
cr> > problem is that i'm not sure *when* they should be started as this was
cr> > not set when i installed the rules. By this i mean should the firewall
cr> > file be linked as S21firewall or S11firewall in the /sbin/init.d/rc2.d
cr> > directory.
cr> >
cr> > As i'm also going to be using them with wvdial.dod which we are advised
cr> > to set as S20wvdial.dod, i'm not sure how this would work. As the
cr> > firewall is going to take the ppp+ interface into account and this will
cr> > only exist *after* wvdial.dod has started up. Since linking wvdial.dod
cr> > as S20wvdial.dod, this would make the setting up of the ppp interface
cr> > one of the last things done on booting up.
cr> >
cr> > Basically i just need to know when to set up the firewall rules (via
cr> > S**firewall) and when to call up wvdial.dod via S**wvdial.dod.
cr> >
cr> >
cr> > Thanks y'all.
cr> >
cr> > Clifford
cr> >
cr>
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