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On Friday 29 Mar 2013 20:37:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:44:14 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Why do wikis and the like suggest that iptables should be in default |
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> > rather than boot runlevel? |
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> Why not? There's no need to start it especially early, as long as it is |
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> running before the network comes up, and the init script takes care of |
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> that. |
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I haven't seen anything in net.lo that waits for iptables and I seem to recall |
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that the network interfaces are started before iptables is run, unless I start |
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iptables at boot level. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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