RE: Setting up ipchains to work with ifup

[Stephen Torri <s torri lancaster ac uk>]

Someone sent me a message about placing it in ip-up.local for startup and
ip-down.local for shutdown. Tried to put it in ifup script but it was not
intended to go there because this would defeat the purpose of *.local
files (this is what I understand so far).

Stephen

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:

> Why not just call it from rc.local or from within rc3.d?
> 
> Even if the modem goes down, the firewall rules will remain unchanged.
> 
> Unless, of course, you're firing up the firewall _before_ you fire up the
> modem, in which case ppp0 (or whatever) would be nonexistant.  In that case,
> you might try puuting it in the ifup script...
>