The tool ipchains allows you to set up firewalls, IP masquerading, etc. Ipchains talks to the kernel and tells it what packets to filter. Therefore all your firewall setups are stored in the kernel, and thus
will be lost on reboot. To avoid this, we recommend using the System V init scripts to make your rules permanent. To do this, create a firewall script file like shown over the next three sections in your
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory for each servers you have. Of course, each server has different services to offer and needs a different firewall setup. For this reason, we
provide you three different firewall settings, which you can play with, and examine to fit your needs. Also I assume that you have a minimum knowledge on how filtering firewalls and firewall rules works.
