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Re: recommended documentation iptables



On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:19:55PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:14:45PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote:
> | Hey, I did I search for iptables how to and got tons of docs-- does
> | anyone recommend one over another or a debian specific one?  The goal is
> | to take advantage of three nics for web and mail services. 
> 
> See http://netfilter.samba.org.  That's one location for the netfilter
> (iptables) development.  Read Rusty's docs.  He's the one who coded
> the stuff.  There's really nothing debian-specific about it because
> it's all part of the kernel.  The only thing distro-specific may be
> where to put the commands to restore your filter at boot time.  I put
> my various firewall scripts in /etc/FIREWALL and made a symlink named 
> /etc/rcS.d/S38FIREWALL to the one I want.

/etc/FIREWALL should be /etc/init.d/FIREWALL and this is not
distro-specific (FHS).

Christophe

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