Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

[A. Khattri]

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 <wireless@×××××××××××.com> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>

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