Re: [IPCop-devel] Announcement: IPCop v1.3 beta3

[Darren C. <da...@kd...>]

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From: "Casey Boone" <ca...@yo...>
To: <ipc...@li...>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: [IPCop-devel] Announcement: IPCop v1.3 beta3


> > Actually I like this idea of a chain in there that can be
> > used for users that want to add rules to the tables, is it
> > possible to take it one step further and have rc.firewall.up
> > include another file called "custom" as an example - that way
> > people can be directed to enter their changes into the
> > "custom" file and should be pretty safe in the knowledge that
> > their chain is in the correct place in iptables. And that if
> > something goes wrong, they just need to remove the include or
> > clear the "custom" file.
> >
> > Darren
>
> This would be a godsend
>
> A supported custom startup script file that gets backed up with
> everything else when you issue a backup.  I have had to add custom
> routing to a few ipcop boxes, and having a central place for this in the
> web management would be quite nice.
>
I didn't say in the webbased gui as that cannot be added to 1.3 at this
point, just a file that everyone knows exists, and where you can add rules
to the iptables.

It is the longterm goal of the dev team to work towards a full fledged
iptables editor eventually, so you will get what you want at some point in
the web gui.

Darren