This one time, at band camp, Debian User said: > Can someone point me to some docs for where to put the iptables firewall > scripts for a dialup accnt. I am running testing/unstable w/2.4.18-686. > This has to be activated(iptables) with each new dialup? Or does > iptables refresh the ip? Sorry for all the ?'s but am new to iptables. > > Thank-you Hmmm . . . don't know any docs off the top of my head, I'm sure google can help there. What I have heard suggested for intermittent internet connections (like dial-ups) is to put your iptables script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ and to use $iface rather than $ipaddress notation in your script - that is, rely on the presence of ppp0 instead of 1.2.3.4. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | wok, n.: Something to thwow at a | | steve@lobefin.net | wabbit. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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