on this note,
by calling the script "rc.firewall" and using iptables rulesets,
you carryonthe convention of "clean" programming
as well as standardizing certain operations.

Not sure onthis, but I do think thatiptables can handle ipchains
scripting. However, I would suggest using strrict iptables rulesets
to simplify things....

Technomage Hawke

On Mon, 14 May 2001, "Craig White" wrote:

> 
> --------
> this is a bit iffy since default install of ipchains on RH7.1 will look in
> /etc/sysconfig for a file called iptables. There is the configuration file.
> Apparently, it will not run iptables if there are ipchains rulesets - only
> one or the other but not both at the same time (makes sense to me).
> 
> Up until now, I have located a file in /etc/rc.d called rc.firewall and
> launched it with chkconfig registered service that I called firewall in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d. While you can apply this logic with iptables, the conf
> file is defaulted to /etc/sysconfig so YMMV.
> 
> Craig
> 


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