On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:03:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My recommendation:
>
> log in as root and
> 1. cd /etc/init.d
> 2. vi ipchains (to create this new file)
> 3. put your ip_forward code into it, and you have place here for your
> firewall rules.
> 4. exit vi
> 5. chmod u=rwx ipchains
> 6. chmod g=rx ipchains
> 7. chmod o=rx ipchains
>
> Now at boot time your firewall will be started.
whoops -- you need to make some links into the /etc/rc*.d/* areas
that actually call the /etc/init.d/* scripts:
man update-rc.d
for example.
but for the task at hand, easiest thing to do is
apt-get install ipmasq
$EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces
ipmasq -v
done!
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