[ILUG] Strange firewall log enteries [?hacking attempts]

[Dermot McGahon]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:53:26 +0100, John P. Looney <valen at tuatha.org>  
wrote:

>> Under Debian, it's /etc/init.d/iptables save_active to save the rules to
>> put in place when it starts (/etc/init.d/iptables start). And,
>> save_inactive saves the rules to put in place when it stops
>> (/etc/init.d/iptables stop). So, you just configure your firewall the
>> way you want it, then save_active and they should be the firewall rules
>> loaded on system start.
>
>  Is that a recent thing ? I've a few pebble boxes (debian woody), and  
> they
> don't seem to have any functionality...is it a special package ?

On a woody box here it seems to be:

   $ /etc/init.d/iptables save active
   $ /etc/init.d/iptables save inactive
   $ /etc/init.d/iptables save foo_rules


Dermot.
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