Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:47:01PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > We had this problem for 8.0 or 8.1 (can't remember), it was due
> > to the fact that iptables package had a default config file, and
> > when booting it removed the rules set up by connection sharing a
> > while before in the boot process.
> > 
> > But I don't have enough time to test that now, I have still much
> > rpmdrake stuff to handle :-(.
> > 
> > I hope I'll have time to fix before the release..
> 
> Frankly I don't think connection sharing should be adding rules outside
> of the way the iptables startup script works.  Because anyone using the
> /etc/sysconfig/iptables file to configure their iptables is going to
> overwrite their connection sharing config.  This basically means that

Well the problem is, first, back to the time where it was written
it worked both for 2.2 (ipchains) and 2.4; second, I'm no
iptables/network guru so when I had to write drakgw, I read some
documentations, and they indicated that the firewall
configuration should go to /etc/rc.c/rc.firewall, and voila. But
our initscripts run rc.firewall first, /etc/sysconfig/iptables
second, so it overwrites rc.firewall stuff, yes.

I think this is not mainly my fault, rather the non standard way
we handle multiple files setting up iptables stuff, rc.firewall
plus sysconfig/iptables plus.. who knows?


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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