On May 13, 2004 10:58 am, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Le jeu 13/05/2004 à 16:48, Aleksandar Milivojevic a écrit : > > What is your preferred way of preserving firewall configuration on > > firewall reboots? I know this is probably distribution specific. > > Every time I need to save the ruleset : > > iptables-save > /etc/firewall > > Then, in a startup script (/etc/init.d/networking on my Debian), I add : > > iptables-restore < /etc/firewall I've modified my scripts, in the 'shutdown' routines it rotates the last 7 saved files and then saves the current with iptables-save, startup calls the most recent file by default ... If I manually modify the firewall I can call the save function with init.d script, and it DOESN'T overwrite the current config, it rotates the files. Just *my* two cents worth Alistair
