Re: Dumb newbie question

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From: "traef06 RAEF" <traef06_at_msn.com>
To: <firewall-wizards_at_honor.icsalabs.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:33 AM
Subject: [fw-wiz] Dumb newbie question

> I'm just getting into Linux and iptables - a definite newbie!

Luck! :-)

> I've loaded Debian 2.4.18-bf24 and I have iptables 1.2.6a.
>
> My question is, where is the rule script stored? I want to start trying my
> own rules but I don't know where the file is to modify. I did find / -name
> rc.firewall and it finds nothing!

You must edit all rules you want, with 'iptables' command.

After that, Debian haves an init.d script named "/etc/init.d/iptables" that
can be used for manage rules.

For more information, simply exec /etc/init.d/iptables.

> TIA

--
Jorge Duarte Rodríguez
Technical Supervisor at Xasys Company.
http://www.xasys.net/
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