On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > James, > > Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but > roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at > Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall].
Its useful to know how iptables works when things go wrong... > > http://www.shorewall.net > > thanks, > joshua > > > On 10/28/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A. Khattri <ajai <at> bway.net <http://bway.net>> writes: > > > > > > > > /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your > > rules you > > > > have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific > > needs. > > > > > Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. > > > > You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts. > > Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... > > > > > > > Not much to it. Make your rules and use "/etc/init.d/iptables save" to > > > save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from > > > /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. > > > > OK > > > > > If you need any help, post on this list. > > > > OK thanks for the clarifications... > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course. The standard response is "Nothing happens here."; of all the Zork/Dungeon games, only in Infocom's Zork 3 is "Hello, Sailor" actually useful (excluding the unique situation where _knowing_ this fact is important in Dungeon...). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
