From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KkDN0-0003II-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BCCFE079A; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ramonster.vanalteren.nl (cust.92.104.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.92.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A163E079A for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ramonster.vanalteren.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7733D38047 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:58:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at vanalteren.nl Received: from ramonster.vanalteren.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ramonster.vanalteren.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id l7ldDrWUG4O0 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ramonster.vanalteren.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3400A3812B for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hurin.local (unknown [62.140.137.30]) (Authenticated sender: ramon@vanalteren.nl) by ramonster.vanalteren.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD6F38047 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:57:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48E08665.9040100@vanalteren.nl> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:40:21 +0200 From: Ramon van Alteren User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070807) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] eth0 startup References: <20080924190642.T60035@shell.bway.net> In-Reply-To: <20080924190642.T60035@shell.bway.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1245ee7c-05f9-4b8d-92b1-0b0b4df6ca66 X-Archives-Hash: 9f186f0a4262e3f8e81f86fac2dfa1fe Ajai Khattri wrote: > > I have iptables and net.eth0 in my default runlevel - is it normal for > iptables to start *before* eth0 is up? If not, then why is this happening? > > This is happening to make sure your firewall rules are in place *before* you accept any traffic. So yes, it's normal Ramon