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Re: iptables service with debian



Tom H a écrit :
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Iptables should be initialized from an initscript run before networking.
> 
> I agree but until someone else pointed out that there was
> iptables-persistent for that, there was no packaged way of doing so.

Actually, the iptables package itself used to contain such facility. But
it was removed in later versions.

> Until iptables-persistent was released in July 2009, there wasn't a
> packaged way of doing so and using "/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/" was the
> recommended way, as documented in the Debian wiki.

I am not going to argue endlessly about this, but IMO being mentionned
in the Debian wiki does not make it "the recommended way".


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