On Friday 21 November 2003 00:02, Stephen Liu wrote: > >>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml#doc_chap12 > > > >Once you've looked at the home pages for the packages it mentions, > > installing the ebuild will provide a small summary at the end which will > > tell you how to configure it. > > I already have iptables emerged on Gentoo box some times ago but without > having it configured. Because I was busily configuring SSH and some > other programs I just left it there untouched. Now where can I find > that small summary.
#/etc/init.d/iptables start If it's not configured it will complain and tell you how to configure it. The basics are 1) Set up iptables manually 2) /etc/init.d/iptables save 3) rc-update add iptables default The save option will store the current configuration of iptables which is then used whenever iptables is started or stopped. If you're not sure how to configure iptables, the home page has several HOWTOs and forums.gentoo.org will provide many examples as well. Then there's always google. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
