This URL looks useful too: http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud@bigfoot.com (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org __) | | \________________________________________________________________ From cj" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C09D0D.C64A7D00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I hope this question isn't beneath PLUG's members, but I'm still pretty = newbie. I'm running the 2.4.0 kernel on Slackware 7.1. I'm trying to set = up iptables as a firewall and have compiled all the modules into the = kernel. I have a pretty good script (got it off the Web), but I can't = figure out how to get it to run. If I type all the commands in the = shell, they work fine, but when I reboot for any reason, they're gone; = obviously, iptables works just fine. Slackware uses /etc/rc.d/rc.local = to run scripts just before or after going multiuser so I'd only be = exposed fo a few seconds and have no other services (that I'm aware of) = running; I've already shut down everything in inetd.conf. That being = said, I don't know how to shell script in rc.local so I can call up my = firewall script. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. CJ ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C09D0D.C64A7D00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I hope this question isn't beneath = PLUG's members,=20 but I'm still pretty newbie. I'm running the 2.4.0 kernel on Slackware = 7.1. I'm=20 trying to set up iptables as a firewall and have compiled all the = modules into=20 the kernel. I have a pretty good script (got it off the Web), but I = can't figure=20 out how to get it to run. If I type all the commands in the shell, they = work=20 fine, but when I reboot for any reason, they're gone; obviously, = iptables works=20 just fine. Slackware uses /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run scripts just before = or after=20 going multiuser so I'd only be exposed fo a few seconds and have no = other=20 services (that I'm aware of) running; I've already shut down everything = in=20 inetd.conf. That being said, I don't know how to shell script in = rc.local so I=20 can call up my firewall script. Any help would be greatly = appreciated.=20 Thanks.

CJ

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