Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: James, Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. Its useful to know how iptables works when things go wrong... http://www.shorewall.net thanks, joshua On 10/28/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Khattri ajai at bway.net http://bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts. Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... Not much to it. Make your rules and use /etc/init.d/iptables save to save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. OK If you need any help, post on this list. OK thanks for the clarifications... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included hello, aviator and hello, implementor). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course. The standard response is Nothing happens here.; of all the Zork/Dungeon games, only in Infocom's Zork 3 is Hello, Sailor actually useful (excluding the unique situation where _knowing_ this fact is important in Dungeon...). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo
James, Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. http://www.shorewall.net thanks, joshua On 10/28/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewallis the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables.You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts.Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... Not much to it. Make your rules and use /etc/init.d/iptables save to save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. OK If you need any help, post on this list.OK thanks for the clarifications...James--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts. Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... Not much to it. Make your rules and use /etc/init.d/iptables save to save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. OK If you need any help, post on this list. OK thanks for the clarifications... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
