29. LVS: Running a firewall on the director: Interaction between LVS and netfilter (iptables). May 2004: This chapter has been rewritten. Before the arrival of the Antefacto patches, it was not possible to run arbitary iptables rules for ip_vs controlled packets on a director. Hence you couldn't run a firewall on the director and we told people to put their firewall on a separate box. Julian then