Re: iptables start on boot
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:14:52AM -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>> >blm@woodheap.org wrote:
>> >
>> >>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?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >The script has been superceded: I've not discovered by what: I'm not
>> >interested. The author clearly wasn't happy with it.
> <SNIP>
>> Also, could someone give me a copy of the old script
>> "/etc/init.d/iptables". I need a way to save my rules, as we all do.
>
> I haven't used this latest version, but the file list on
> packages.debian.org for iptables 1.2.9-10 shows:
>
> usr/share/doc/iptables/examples/oldinitdscript.gz
>
Yes this is true but I don't really want to use it until I know why
it was deprecated (Has anyone read the comments at the top of it?) and
what if anything it was replaced with.
Ben Marsh
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