[PLUG] iptables Config' File
Jason Van Cleve
jason at vancleve.com
Wed Nov 19 13:48:02 UTC 2003
Quick question on iptables, which I'm finally getting around to setting up on my laptop. I'd like to create a more or less permanent and reusable configuration file, one I can modify for use on other machines. I've heard of many people writing explicit scripts to configure the filter (iptables -b blah-blah; iptables -blah; . . .), but I also notice that iptables-save creates a formatted config' instead of actual iptables commands.
Is it wise to just use that formatted output as a portable config' file? That is, to SCP it to another machine and load it there with iptables-restore (even just as a starting point)? Maybe it would be better to write a script, so that I can compare it with other people's; but my distro' is set up to use iptables-restore at boot time, so maintaining a script could be awkward.
--Jason Van Cleve
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