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From: "Zander Subatomic" <zander@subatomic.org.uk>
Subject: Re: firewall script placement
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:57:59 -0000
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To: "Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. (Hons) G8TIC" <mike.tubby@thorcom.co.uk>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

> Zander,
>
> I use a homebrew iptables based firewall script on all my RH 7.2, 7.3
> and 8.0 machines which is based on Oskar's tutorial and good work
> as its much more flexible than the built-in systems...
>
> I call the script "rc.firewall" and keep it in /etc/rc.d as its a bit
non-standard
> like rc.local and then cd to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and hack things a little by
> removing S07/08/09 ipchains/iptables stuff, and adding a symbolic
> link:
>
>     ln -s ../rc.firewall S11firewall
>
> so that the start up sequence ends up looking something like this:
>

<SNIP>

cheers for the advice, I have managed to cludge it and get boot-up firewall
script up and running, excellent! :o)

Z