Quoth Rob Hudson, on Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:52:26 -0800: > Anyone familiar with iptables on gentoo?
A little. I'm not sure I can help you, but I've one suggestion. . . . > Upon doing this, my connection (via ssh) died until the stop command > came through. I'm confused as to why turning on iptables in this way > killed my connection but typing them manually did not. That is indeed illogical. :} I believe iptables never actually starts or stops, that if it's enabled in the kernel, then it's always on. So if iptables-save is reporting the same rules, you should be experiencing the same access. Try reconnecting via ssh AFTER running the start command. > Not sure what's up. Any help is appreciated. Also, feel free to > comment on the iptables rules themselves... I'm no expert at firewalls > but want something simple to help protect my server. Here's my only suggestion: use a firewall router instead. You'll have a basic set of restrictions by default, and you can customize that via a simple browser interface. Of course, if you're trying to protect your system from M$ boxen on your LAN at work, you're probably back to iptables. Please post the resolution! --Jason -- My new year's resolution is 1600x1200. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
