Stefan, is ufw available to you on your OS? I find that a million times easier than editing iptables. On Apr 15, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Stefan Reich <stefan.reich.maker.of....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert, > > thanks for the answer. > > Now it's actually done... I looked up /etc/init.d/firewall and added a line > there according to other lines that already existed: > > iptables -A INPUT -i $device -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 5984 > -j ACCEPT > > This crap (sorry) REALLY should be more intuitive. I'm thinking: graphical > representation of ports and straight-forward editing. We'll do that in Lua > OS. :) > > Thanks again for the help, > Stefan