[lug] fc and iptables

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Tue Sep 19 10:47:12 MDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:25 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
[snip]
> This is so you can save off the exact state if you use the packet/byte
> counters for billing or something.
> 
> See /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and the:
> 
> IPTABLES_SAVE_COUNTER
> 
> variable for if it saves those values or not.

Yeah.  That iptables file is created by iptables-save and put back into
the kernel by iptables-restore.

I often use iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables after editing
rules in the file because the iptables init script does things I don't
like.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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