[Gllug] Security & closing ports on certain interfaces.

Tue Feb 19 15:20:20 UTC 2002

will(will at hellacool.co.uk)@Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:15:26PM +0000:
> Paul Brazier wrote:
> > (I don't think this is a standard thing, just a personal convention)
> > At the moment I just run it manually on boot but I guess I could add it
> > one of the ifup scripts or something.
> 
> I stick mine in a shell script (/root/firewall because I have never got 
> around to moving it) and call that from rc.local.
> 
> Will.

you really should activate the firewalling rules before the interfaces
are up'd.  there is a small moment of oppourtunity if you activate in
rc.local for an intruder to hax0r you.

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