On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:37:11AM -0600, Ben Bargabus wrote: > Hello, > I've been messing around with iptables and ip aliasing on a redhat 7.2 > box and everything seems to be coming together but whenever I reboot all > my changes go away when the startup scripts are run. Anyway there are > about a million places that startup information is being stored so I'm > wondering where each of my statements should go. Is there a good source > online (HOWTO, faq, etc...) that describes what goes where and the order > in which things should happen? You can use linuxconf (cough, gag) for the IP aliases, or /etc/rc.d/rc.local, as for the iptables rules you should use the iptables 'service' as follows: chkconfig --level 3 iptables on ^- This turns on the iptables 'service' (it's probably already on, but do it anyway) After you've configured the rules how you want them, or make new changes: /etc/init.d/iptables save This will save the rules to a file hiding in /etc/sysconfig somewhere so that when you reboot it will restore them exactly how you had them. /etc/init.d/iptables also has some other useful commands: stop: turn off all iptables rules start: manual start, loads saved rules restart: clear the rules, and reload from the saved file status: print out the current rules panic: turn the system into a black hole and drop *everything* (not a good idea to do this remotely) > Thanks, > Ben (longing for autoexec.bat) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203