This question would be better off on
debian-firewall.

* Quoting E&Erdem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> I've been using iptables (or i assuming that). But at boot time it gives
> an error: "Aborting iptables load: unknown rulesets "active" ". I
> couldn't find the problem. I searched via google, and found
> dpkg-reconfigure iptables. But it didn't help. I read a lot of iptables
> documents. But i think i lost some points, because i don't understand
> something. 

Read and edit 

/etc/default/iptables

> Before this i want to ask that, do i need firewall? Yes, i know this is
> very important tool for whose, who taking care about security. And i can
> say i'm a paranoid about security. But all of my ports closed. There
> isn't any service listen. But sometimes i need httpd and ssh.

If your services (ports) are closed you don't need
a firewall. If you need a service (like ssh) you
would need to open that port anyway.

- Rolf


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