Re: Firewall in Sarge

From: s. keeling (keeling_at_spots.ab.ca)
Date: 10/15/04

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    Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:20:55 -0600
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Incoming from Adi Linden:
    > > On my system I put a firewall script in /etc/init.d and have it loaded on startup.
    > > But this is on a LAN. You may want to do things differently for dial-up.
    >
    > It's on a LAN. Sounds like everyone just rolls their own then, no standard
    > place to stick iptables rules.

    What did I just say?!? On a LAN, you use something in
    /etc/network/if-up.d. When the network comes up, anything in there
    will be run, including your firewall script.

    Geez! 

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