On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:12:38AM -0000, Samuel Jean wrote: > Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via > init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't search > that much though. Have a look at Shorewall -- it does similar things to what you're proposing, and is already written. There's probably also a lot of other firewall maintenance systems with similar methods. - Matt