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Re: Iptables at boot

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On 2018-01-21 1:02, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> On 20-01-18, Jacques Rodary wrote:
>> Hi
>> How can I start iptables at boot. I don't find  an equivalent to  " service
>> iptables start" with systemd and does'nt know how to create a new
>> iptables.service. The manpages aren't quite clear for me. Thanks for any
>> help.
>>   Jacques
>>
> 
> There are two options. One would be to learn to write systemd service
> units. There are many tutorials on net for how to write those with
> examples. Other would be to install iptables-persistent package. You can
> find more about using iptables-persistent package if you google it, you
> will surly run on few quick howtos.


If you don't want to learn systemd at this stage you can put your
iptables lines in /etc/rc.local (before exit 0 line). It will be run
during boot and add your iptables config. I know it's not elegant
solution by any means but it works if you don't want to play with
services at this stage.


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Iptables at boot Jacques Rodary <rodaryj@free.fr> - 2018-01-20 23:50 +0100
  Re: Iptables at boot Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2018-01-21 02:10 +0100
    Re: Iptables at boot Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2018-01-21 04:20 +0100
      Re: Iptables at boot Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2018-01-21 10:10 +0100
      Re: Iptables at boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-01-21 21:00 +0100
        Re: Iptables at boot Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2018-01-25 10:20 +0100
    Re: Iptables at boot Karol Augustin <karol@augustin.pl> - 2018-01-22 17:00 +0100

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