Hello, I'm attempting to follow this wiki to build a test firewall running iptables: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbies#QuickStart
Kernel is 'hardened' with netfilter et al activated. It looks reasonable and is suppose to be up to date. My nics are set up in /etc/conf.d/net iface_eth0="192.168.2.20 broadcast 192.168.2.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" iface_eth1="192.168.3.11 broadcast 192.168.3.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" iface_eth2="<snipped> broadcast <snipped> netmask 255.255.255.252" routes_eth2=( "default gw <snipped>" ) All work fine. port forwarding is enabled: Rulesets get saved to /var/lib/iptables/rules-save As specificed in /etc/conf.d/iptables and /etc/init.d/iptables is the script that launces iptables plus rc-update add iptables default I think all of this is correct(correct me if I'm wrong). When I go to /etc/init to write my rules into firewall.sh as specified in the aforementioned wiki I automatically get this shoved into the script: #!/sbin/runscript # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ depend() { } start() { } stop() { } restart() { } curiously none of the example talk about this. Is this the correct place to put my script(/etc/init.d/, which is somewhat similar to the one suggested in the wiki? None of the examples I found googling discuss the details of where to put the script, how to launch it and other such details. Any suggestion are welcome. I have found lots of example scripts similar to my 3 nic net/lan/dmz setup though. Any suggestions are very welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list