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James, |
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Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but |
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roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at |
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Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. |
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http://www.shorewall.net |
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thanks, |
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joshua |
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On 10/28/05, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> A. Khattri <ajai <at> bway.net <http://bway.net>> writes: |
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> > > /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your |
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> rules you |
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> > > have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific |
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> needs. |
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> > Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. |
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> You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts. |
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> Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... |
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> > Not much to it. Make your rules and use "/etc/init.d/iptables save" to |
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> > save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from |
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> > /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. |
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> OK |
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> > If you need any help, post on this list. |
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> OK thanks for the clarifications... |
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> James |
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