Docs for /etc/sysconfig/iptables and iptables-config?

[Jeff Vian]

Stephen Walton wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:47, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>The format of the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file is in my eyes
>>self-explaining.
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>Your eyes must be better than mine :-) .  I used Firewall Builder and
>found it a reasonable tool for building a moderately complex firewall. 
>It is still a bit technical for a really naive user, but I found it much
>easier than writing rules by hand.  However, the rules it generates go
>into a shell script you have to run separately at bootup instead of into
>/etc/sysconfig/iptables, so that's a definite down side.
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I use firewall builder as well.  However, after booting with the script 
used to load the rules, I then use '/etc/init.d/iptables save' and 
created the '/etc/sysconfig/iptables' file with all those rules.  Thus, 
I do not have to run the script unless I make a change to the rules.

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