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carlitoco

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2017-02-23

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create a firewall for arch using alien bob easy firewall generator

Hey community I know this easy firewall generator since ten years and it was a helpfull tool for Slackware until I switched to Arch...

Now I thought iptables keeps iptables, and tested it for an arch firewall, I just did it like Bob wrote chmod it and ./startit ...

It works fine I think, have a try...

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/efg/index.php

It would be nice to have it available for systemctl ...

maybe like this:

# cp /etc/iptables/empty.rules /etc/iptables/iptables.rules
# systemctl start iptables.service
# iptables --list
# ./your_generated_firewall
# iptables-save > /etc/iptables/iptables.rules
# iptables --list

Last edited by carlitoco (2017-03-10 17:38:45)

SubS0

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Registered: 2015-02-10

Posts: 39

Re: create a firewall for arch using alien bob easy firewall generator

What do you mean by "available for systemctl" ?

I really don’t get it. Iptables will load the rules you saved in /etc/iptables/iptables.rules, according to the systemd service you start/enable.
You can make a specific iptables.service from /usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service to load rules on demand...

Could you clarify what you intend to do ?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: create a firewall for arch using alien bob easy firewall generator

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Iptables ?