Traffic shaping... don't understand the instructions!

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jul 8 21:14:23 UTC 2004


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:49 AM -0600 "Rodolfo J. Paiz"
> <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
>
> > I know I can run these commands from the command line; but how do I make
> > them permanent?
>
> The same way you would for iptables: Write an initscript that restores them
> from a config file. Until then, gather them in a script and invoke them in
> rc.local.

Or better yet:

	/sbin/service iptables save

The iptables initscript loads its config from /etc/sysconfig/iptables.
Issuing the "service iptables save" command dumps the current iptables
config to that file, and it will be automatically loaded on boot.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs





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