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Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?



On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:03:55AM -0500, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 07:27:59PM -0800, calyth wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > IIRC, that is that the author doesn't like the default script, and
> > doesn't recommend it's use.
> 
> Unfortunately, the iptables package maintainer doesn't give any other
> suggesting than the init.d script.

That seems a little unfair. Have you read
/usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian.gz?

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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