blm@woodheap.org wrote:
The script has been superceded: I've not discovered by what: I'm not interested. The author clearly wasn't happy with it.I recently installed debian testing (sarge) on a clients machine and am trying to get the firewall to load on reboot. AFAIK there was a /etc/init.d/iptables script in previous releases of debian but it doesn't seem to be there anymore. Is this correspond to others experiences? Has this script been replaced with a different mechanism for starting iptables at boot time?
Since you're asking I guess, like me, you're not entirely comfortable with rolling your own.
I'm using shorewall on some Woody boxes. I just installed it on Sarge and decided it's going to take well over five minutes to configure. There _is_ a webmin module for it; I've not looked at it yet though.
There are also other firewall packages: fwbuilder comes to mind. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au Z1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au