Proper management of iptables?

Dmitry Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca
Tue Mar 8 21:54:20 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, March 08, 2011, Bashi, Enils wrote:
> If losing the rules is the issue, why not dump the rules to a file? :
> 
> Iptables-save > iptables.save
> 
> And if you need to restore them:
> 
> Iptables-restore < iptables.save
> Service iptables save
> Service iptables restart

well that part is covered by RCS. It was more of a question whether our 
techniques are properly alligned with expectations of upstream maintainers 
(RedHat) of how the system is going to be used.

-- 
Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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