Re: Dumb newbie question

["Kevin Sheldrake" <kev () electriccat co uk>]

Hi

I'm not a Debian-head, but...

The startup script should be in somewhere like /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d  
and will most likely be called iptables.

This script will probably do an iptables-restore < /path/file.

It is the /path/file that you are looking for.  On my gentoo box it is in  
/var/lib/iptables/rules-save.

The basic idea is to modify the current table with the iptables command  
and then commit an iptables-save > /path/file to save the rules.  You can  
modify the file directly, however as it follows the format of the iptables  
command.

www.netfilter.org has lots of reading on this.

Kev


> I'm just getting into Linux and iptables - a definite newbie!
>
> I've loaded Debian 2.4.18-bf24 and I have iptables 1.2.6a.
>
> My question is, where is the rule script stored? I want to start trying  
> my own rules but I don't know where the file is to modify. I did find /  
> -name rc.firewall and it finds nothing!


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Kevin Sheldrake MEng MIEE CEng CISSP
Electric Cat (Bournemouth) Ltd
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