[tlug] IPTables

[Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc@example.com>]

I've been playing around with iptables (and locking myself out of my box 
of course :) This is bound to be the first of many iptables related 
questions ...

One thing I haven't been able to find a suitable answer to is what is 
the proper way to get iptables up and running at boot time with rules 
loaded (on a RH 8.0 machine)?

I have one tutorial that says to put the rules in rc.local but also 
mentions that this would leave the box open for a small length of time, 
from the time networking is enabled to the time the rules are loaded 
when rc.local gets run.

Can anyone point me to a resource that explains how to get iptables 
started, with rules loaded, before networking is enabled? I'm sure there 
are many "hacks" ... but is there one "recommended" way?

Thanks!

Jc