BROKEN HOWTO: How To Install A Custom Iptables Firewall

This how to needs more work as it fails to run.

the how to states:

Code:

Edit this file(type in gedit first :)) /etc/init.d/firewall.iptables
Enter in this code

As root enter in this command

chown root:root /etc/init.d/firewall.iptables

chmod 700 /etc/init.d/firewall.iptables

but the code is right at the bottom of the page not where it should be.
(it just needs moving up i think)

the other problem is when you try to run

Code:

/etc/init.d/firewall.iptables start

you get the error:

Code:

"firewall: No configuration file found at /etc/firewall/firewall.conf.iptables; "

I am running on a CentOS 5.5 machine with IPTables installed.

I have tried to copy over my iptables file from

Code:

/etc/sysconfig/iptables to the /etc/firewall/firewall.conf.iptables 

but i get a lot of errors about the script.
Maybe the script should have a config file that is not documented here?

any advice very welcome as i would like to use a more secure script to try to stop ddos attacks.

regards

 

What's in /etc/init.d/firewall.iptables?

 

Thanks Falko, I figured it out Via Google.

I was missing a lot of files by the looks of it.

I found a site with some sample configs on it and configured them (well best i could) to get it running.

The firewall folder is non existant on Centos systems, so there were no files in there at all.

So i created firewall.conf.iptables, nat.iptables, banned.iptables etc.

Thanks for a great how to though - helped me get on my way.

Cheers.