I see this more as a Redhat config problem. I have been setting up my
firewall rules before I bring up the interfaces on the firewalls for a
couple of years now. nwither ipfwadm or ipchains require that the
interfaces exist for you to set the rules so I just set the rules bfore
the first ifconfig
David Lang
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
>
> Russell King wrote:
> > I for one run this exact setup - a root NFS masquerading firewall. A change
> > to a default of DENY would currently break root NFS.
>
> But then, there are of course plenty of people who'd love to murder
> kernel-based NFS root at the earliest opportunity anyway ;-)
>
> (Besides this, I don't think we should default to DENY. You can always
> do that in user space, so the best strategy is probably to preserve the
> existing behaviour - least surprise principle.)
>
> - Werner
>
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