-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Satvika Bejai : > Hi > > I've just been introduced to netfilter. I would like to know if it is > possible to configure the firewall rules from a text file that is > written to by some script attached to a website. I am trying to Of course , it can . There are too tools in iptables distribution : iptables-save and iptables-restore , which used to save or restore the iptables rules data . You can just let your script to write the iptables in the iptables-save format , and then run iptables-restore in the file data . So ,if you do what the above describe , you need to get the user input from your web , and parsing the input , convert them to the format iptables-restore can understand . And , OK > configure a firewall on Snapgear linux which is hosting a website which > is supposed to alllow a user to enter configuration rules. I hope to > save these to a text file from which i would like the netfilter program > to read from. > Is this possible. I only have a week to get this done, so > any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > Satvika > Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFUrG97tZp58UCwyMRAg76AJ4w7/0o9YqqKLdPC7NapOu2I5nmdwCfZRp7 Ja36GK+unjovp+aeeQ9lhSg= =Hshd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
