Re: firewall on laptop

2010-02-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-02-07, Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, What is the best way to run a firewall script with lots of iptables lines in it when a connection is put up? Eg. when I connect to ethernet or wifi the script should run. If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. I'm using wicd to

firewall on laptop

2010-02-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, What is the best way to run a firewall script with lots of iptables lines in it when a connection is put up? Eg. when I connect to ethernet or wifi the script should run. If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. I'm using wicd to manage all my wifi connections. Is it possible to get this script

Re: firewall on laptop

2010-02-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Daniel Dalton put forth on 2/6/2010 11:22 PM: If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. Why? Does it hurt anything to have the rules active when you're not connected? I can't see how it would. All the rules do is cause the kernel to eat up a small amount of additional memory. Iptables rules are

Re: firewall on laptop

2010-02-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2010/2/7 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com Daniel Dalton put forth on 2/6/2010 11:22 PM: If I'm offline then it shouldn't run. Why? Does it hurt anything to have the rules active when you're not connected? I can't see how it would. All the rules do is cause the kernel to eat up a