Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

[Eric Crossman <edge1035@earthlink.net>]

Once you run the rules once and run save, they will then be reloaded
from that location (/var/lib/iptables/rules-save)
by /etc/init.d/iptables start. The init.d script uses iptables-restore
and iptables-save underneath.

Eric C

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 23:17 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables.  There is a section
> there that sets up a file called firewall.sh
> i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system,
> and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as
> /var/lib/iptables/rules-save.  Is there a specific directory where this file
> should be written so that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" can see it?
> Or can the rules-save file be edited and re-written? (It seems as though
> running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" would just over-write rules-save).
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> 
> John D
> 
> 
> 
> 

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