On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:32:00PM +0100, Kees de Jong wrote: > I'm running Debian Squeeze and I want to save my ip6table configuration > with the iptables-persistent tool. I'm the maintainer of iptables-persistent. You should be aware that there are some outstanding bugs that I haven't had time to deal with yet, see the BTS. > To save an ipv4 table I use 'iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules', the > configuration file 'rules' is already there for the use of ipv4. > But there is no ipv6 config file, so I don't know what the correct > syntax is of the ipv6 configuration file when I want to save it with > ip6tables-save. > In Debian Testing there are respective defaults for ipv4 and ipv6 in the > tool iptables-persistent named: rules.v4 and rules.v6 > > Can someone point me to the correct syntax of the file? So that > ip6tables is restored on a cold start in a proper way. > An entry like 'ip6tables-restore < /etc/iptables/rules6' > in /etc/rc.local would be an ugly solution. Either ip6tables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v6 or dpkg-reconfigure iptables-persistent will save your currently running rules to where the init script expects to find them. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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