Paul Gear wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > ... > >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a recent > >>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'! > > > > > > cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know > > how to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian > > way of loading up a firewall on startup... like a file i need to dump > > my (customised) `iptables-save` output into. else i will just write > > my own initscript. > > I know how to do it as well, but i don't because shorewall saves a lot > of time and effort, and protects you from typos.
/me does `apt-get install shorewall` and to hell with figuring out the proper way :-) cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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