On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:51:53PM -0800, McKee, Charles wrote: > I have a quick question about an article I have just read in the latest > addition of Sys Admin. > In the article it states that one can keep alive IPChains and Natd when > you do a shutdown -h on a Linux box, that is running Red hat 6.2. > > I was wondering will this work on for the latest versions of Linux and > what about the BSD family, Mandrake or even Solaris. What happens is that ipchains, iptables, and other friends have rulesets that would only get unloaded by a shutdown script. In most cases, it wouldn't matter, since those kernel subsystems will never see packets since all your net interfaces should be brought down by that point. -- Assassins do it from behind. ** Concerned Citizen Bryon Roche, Kain <kainat_private> <kainat_private>
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