Debian iptables script & init.d

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:23:33PM -0500, Alan Cohen wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> (Old) RedHat had an rc.local which I used to execute my iptables script.
> (New) Debian apparently doesn't allow for such a technique.
> 
> Is creating a SysVinit script in /etc/init.d (and then using
> update-rc.d) the proper way to execute my iptables script?

Yes, or you install a package like shorewall which makes it much simpler
to manage your iptables rules and includes a startup script already.  I
am not going back to manual messy iptables rules again.

Lennart Sorensen
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