[plug] firewalling

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 17:26, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Those "ipchains" and "iptables" scripts are used to run a script created
> by some GUI interface for creating a firewall.

That's not right.
I use the ipchains rc script.

The function of the ipchains service is:

a) once happy with a set of firewall rules use /etc/init.d/ipchains save
to save it to /etc/sysconfig/ipchains.

b) restore that same configuration at system startup and shutdown.

c) as always you can start and stop (ie flush and set default policy to
accept) the service.

Works well for me.

> 
> Personally I hate most GUI configuration type tools for Linux.
> 
> I'd turn them off and create your own script.  Since you're using a 2.4
> kernel, you might as well use iptables as its far superior than ipchains
> (IMHO anyway).

Yes. Would be good to rework my filter rules.

> 
> 
> / Ben
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