calyth said: > Nate, > It may have been the iptables package which provides the init.d script. > the comments in the /etc/defaults/iptables says that not even the author > likes it. looks like he's bitching about the init scripts, not the iptables product itself. for me, I always write my own firewall scripts, out of habbit I guess. Haven't worked with iptables much at all though yet. nate