Re: Saving IPTable rules..oops

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevelopmentcorp.com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 16:38, Jason Williams wrote:
> At 12:52 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
> >I don't think you can put your variables in /etc/sysconfig/iptables file. 
> >It follows a particular pattern which is not that difficult to learn.
> >
> >If you want to use variables and stuff, you gotta write your own script 
> >file and run it at bootup. I use do this way when my firewall rules were 
> >less than 50 lines.
> >
> >Now my firewall rules are more than 500 lines so I edit the 
> >/etc/sysconfig/iptables file directly. It is just an efficient way to load 
> >the rules through this file.
> 
> 
> I see. so if i want to use variables, I need to edit/replace 
> /etc/init.d/iptables then? with my own custom script?
> Sounds like i need to brush up on my scripting. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
You could run a script to create the rules and then save them to the
iptables file.
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