Re: Firewalling
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:01:58AM +0100, Victor Foitzik wrote:
> At 08:15 13.03.2001, Craig wrote:
>
> >Have created a file which contains all my ipchains rules and I would like
> >it to start when the machine loads. Not sure where the best place is for
> >this. I used to use rc.local on RH but was told that this is a bush job and
> >very sloppy as for debian, well used to use the network file on slink.
>
> Just another hint, make sure your script is started _before_ network
> interfaces are brought up. Otherwise your firewall will be completely _open_
> (for just a short period of time, but it will be). A useful place where to
> put a link to your script is rcS.d, just before networking is launched.
>
My illegal way of doing this is running my firewell script in /etc/rcS.d
> HTH
> Vic
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