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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_Rodrigues_Magalh=E3es?= <leolistas@solutti.com.br>
Subject: Re: Order in ruleset edition
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:27:15 -0300
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To: "Hildebrand, Brian" <BrianHildebrand@universalcomputersys.com>, "Netfilter (E-mail)" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>


    To prevent problems during a firewall reload/restart, I usually do:

    1) do 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' on the very beggining of
the script
    2) define the default actions to drop on the very first rules ( -P
DROP )
    3) insert ALL the rules (can take some seconds)
    4) do 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'
    5) firewall is READY

    What do you think on this ?

    Sincerily,
    Leonardo Rodrigues