5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
07:44
Philippe Vogel wrote:
[...] The explnanations for each rule is in the file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall. To restart the firewall to take changes affect type "/sbin/SuSEfirewal2 stop" and "/sbin/SuSEfirewal2 start". This is imo the safer way than /rcSuSEfirewall2 restart as some rules are not reseted propper.
If you do that you open your machine for a short period of time. You can just run /sbin/SuSEfirewall2, it always flushes all rules anyways (except for ipv6 if you change FW_IPv6 to 'no'). cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/