Maintaining the iptables rulebase is the responsibility of userspace programs, and in my opinion things should stay so.
If you do not want to need to remember to delete the rule, set up a userspace time trigger that deletes it for you, using for example the at command, at the time you install the rule. Regards Henrik Nordström On Saturday 09 March 2002 16:14, Martin MAURER wrote: > I have looked a bit at this module now. > My main problem is, that I would want all corresponding rules to > vanish from the firewall rules, so that you havent got to clean up > later. Am I right, that this could not be achieved by this module > (as I understand it, only the ips of the people matching this rules > get deleted, and the rules themselves stay) > If this is true, I will do the deleting of the inserted rules from > my tool itself, but the disadvantage would be that after shutting > down this tool, the rules wont be deleted (or have to be deleted > immediatly).
