ipyables

[Tjebychef]

Does anybody know where I can find a tutorial or overview over iptables configuration on Debian? I am not after the iptables config. syntax, but how iptables is started/stoped etc, as I want to use my own config file.

[drakebasher]

I want to use my own config file.

I don't think iptables is started and stopped like other services: I think it is started from within the kernel. You can kill all iptables rules with the following:

iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t mangle -F

and then you can apply your own configuration. Also, you can use 'iptables-save' to write a particular configuration to a file which can then be restored with 'iptables-restore'. I hope that's helpful.