Re: Linux Firewalls

[Kain <kain () kain org>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:51:53PM -0800, McKee, Charles wrote:
> I have a quick question about an article I have just read in the latest
> addition of Sys Admin. 
> In the article it states that one can keep alive IPChains and Natd when
> you do a shutdown -h on a Linux box, that is running Red hat 6.2. 
>  
> I was wondering will this work on for the latest versions of Linux and
> what about the BSD family, Mandrake or even Solaris. 

What happens is that ipchains, iptables, and other friends have rulesets
that would only get unloaded by a shutdown script.  In most cases, it
wouldn't matter, since those kernel subsystems will never see packets
since all your net interfaces should be brought down by that point.
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Concerned Citizen
Bryon Roche, Kain <kain () imperativesoultions com>
<kain () kain org>

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