Firewall program at boottime

craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

I would like to start a firewall program at boottime. Can someone help me write a script for this. It is the first time I am writing an init-script. :oops:

Thanks in advance.
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Rylan · n00b Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 41

Check the Gentoo security guide
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml

Down towards the bottom is a decent rc.firewall script that you can edit to your personal needs.

craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

All I need to do is start a program, which inturn will start iptables. Here is what I need to do.

I have a program located at /usr/local/bin/endoshield. I want to write a script that would initiate this progam, which will start iptables at boottime.

Any ideas?
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tebers · Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 6:09 pm Post subject:

There is an updated ebuild with iptables now, which installs as well an init-script .

Read the remark at the end of the emerge for more details.

Thorsten

lamer · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 16 Location: St. Paul, Mn

craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

Thanks for the info. I'm emergeing now.

Anyway I have created a very very simple script. This is what it looks like:

craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

After emerging the latest iptables I have found it does the main job that I wanted it to do ... Stop port scanners. So for now I am happy, until I learn a little more about firewalling in Linux.
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