Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:51:13PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That works that's what I was looking for. > > But I still didn't get the working. dpkg-reconfigure iptables just make > the symbolic links to /etc/init.d/iptables. Where does is say to start > it. I mean calling /etc/init.d/i

RE: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
Regards, Nabil. -Original Message- From: Didar Hussain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debianised Firewall On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:31:21PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Sam Halliday wro

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:31:21PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > >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 st

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Aug 01 08:52 -0500]: > :-) yeah... but i actually have an iptables script lying around, so its just a case > of copying it to /etc/init.d and making a symlink... but i'd prefer not to do such a > homemade job of it. Well, I dropped mine in /usr/local/etc/

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Sam Halliday
John Summerfield wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >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` o

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:14:48AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > Paul Gear wrote: > > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a > > > >recent>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'! > > > > > > > > >

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread John Summerfield
Sam Halliday wrote: 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

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Paul Gear
Sam Halliday wrote: > ... >>/me does `apt-get install shorewall` and to hell with figuring out the >>proper way :-) > > > hmm, its actually more effort to learn this shorewall thing than just make my own > initscript... If you say so. From my experience, the time spent learning shorewall pays

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: > 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 > > >

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Paul Gear
Sam Halliday wrote: > 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

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Sam Halliday
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 i

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Paul Gear
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

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: hi there, i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or via iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to do this, but i was wondering what the correct "debian way" of setting up an iptables firewall is. is ther

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul Gear wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or > >via iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to > >do this, but i was wondering what the correct "debian way" of setting up > >an iptables firewall is. is the

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-07-31 Thread Paul Gear
Sam Halliday wrote: >hi there, > >i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or via >iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to do >this, but i was wondering what the correct "debian way" of setting up an >iptables firewall is. is there a file whe