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Re: Debianised Firewall



Sam Halliday wrote:
> Paul Gear wrote:
> > Sam Halliday wrote:
> > > ...
> > >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a
> > >recent>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know
> > > how to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian
> > > way of loading up a firewall on startup... like a file i need to dump
> > > my (customised) `iptables-save` output into. else i will just write
> > > my own initscript.
> > 
> > I know how to do it as well, but i don't because shorewall saves a lot
> > of time and effort, and protects you from typos.
> 
> /me does `apt-get install shorewall` and to hell with figuring out the
> proper way :-)

hmm, its actually more effort to learn this shorewall thing than just make my own initscript...

thanks anyway

cheers,
Sam
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