Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
Yes. My bad. That seems to contain some stuff about adding a pre-up
and/or post-up for /etc/network/interfaces. I must have missed that
the first time I looked at iptables.
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Johan KULLSTAM
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