Re: SV: [Firestarter-user] IP Masquerade setup

[Jack B. <jb...@ho...>]

** Reply to message from "Johan Aberg" <joh...@fi...> on Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:36:12 +0200


> The next question is, what is the best way to make sure that Firestarter start up automaticly when the system starts?

You should copy the /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh into your initscripts. Depending on your level of paranoia, you can stick it into either:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

or

into /etc/rc.d/init.d and then make symlinks to it in runlevels 2,3,4 and 5.

Sticking it into rc.local is less work but then you have to live with the fact that in the few seconds that it takes during booting between the time your network interfaces are initialized and the rc.local (which is always executed last in the chain) is run, some script kiddie could be hammering you hundreds of times. This is not really an issue now with linux but it will be when linux viruses become the flavor of the month.

I believe Paul has already worked up a nicely fashioned initscript for Firestarter in the latest 8.0 beta so this issue will be taken care of soon anyway.

jb

Jack Bowling
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