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Re: Debianised Firewall



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.

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