Am 05.12.2011 22:00, schrieb Les Mikesell: > Not sure what the GUI tool does (I'd assume it clears iptables if you > tell it to disable the firewall...) but 'service iptables save' writes > a file named iptables in /etc/sysconfig that you should be able to > back up somewhere. However, a normal 'service iptables stop' which > will happen in a shutdown/reboot, etc. will also overwrite that file. no it does not since my first begin with linux i generate iptables-rules with shells-cripts calling "service iptables save" at the end and stop iptables will NEVER touch this rules do not touch any of this gui's, learn to write the rules by yourself and you are much more flexible and it tokk me not more than two hours to write my script after swicth to fedora in the meantime it is in production-use on > 20 servers, manage all this servers with if-$HOSTNAME bloks and will be used for routing, prot-forwarind, blocking of unwanted subnets and many other things the big beenfit is you can star a new machine with copy this script, modife it at your needs and knowing exactly what happens
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