diff --git a/ipvsadm.init b/ipvsadm.init
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9989ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ipvsadm.init
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Startup script handle the initialisation of LVS
+# chkconfig: - 08 92
+# description: Initialise the Linux Virtual Server
+# config: /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm
+#
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: ipvsadm
+# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $named
+# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
+# Short-Description: Initialise the Linux Virtual Server
+# Description: The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly
+#   available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load
+#   balancer running on Linux.
+### END INIT INFO
+
+# set the configuration file
+IPVSADM_CONFIG="/etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm"
+
+# Source function library
+. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
+
+start() {
+    # If we don't clear these first, we might be adding to pre-existing rules.
+    action "Clearing the current IPVS table:" ipvsadm -C
+    echo -n "Applying IPVS configuration: "
+    ipvsadm-restore < ${IPVSADM_CONFIG} && \
+        success "Applying IPVS configuration" || \
+        failure "Applying IPVS configuration"
+    echo
+    touch /var/lock/subsys/ipvsadm
+}
+
+stop() {
+    action "Clearing the current IPVS table:" ipvsadm -C
+    rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ipvsadm
+}
+
+save() {
+    echo -n "Saving IPVS table to ${IPVSADM_CONFIG}: "
+    ipvsadm-save -n > ${IPVSADM_CONFIG} 2>/dev/null && \
+        success "Saving IPVS table to ${IPVSADM_CONFIG}" || \
+        failure "Saving IPVS table to ${IPVSADM_CONFIG}"
+    echo
+}
+
+# See how we were called.
+case "$1" in
+    start)
+        # If we have no configuration, save the current one
+        [ -f ${IPVSADM_CONFIG} ] || save
+        start
+        ;;
+    stop)
+        stop
+        ;;
+    reload|force-reload|restart)
+	# Start will flush everything, so it counts as a restart
+	start
+	;;
+    status)
+        ipvsadm -L -n
+	;;
+    save)
+        save
+	;;
+    *)
+        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status|save}"
+	exit 3
+esac
+
+exit 0
+
diff --git a/ipvsadm.spec b/ipvsadm.spec
index 462f25e..d61114e 100644
--- a/ipvsadm.spec
+++ b/ipvsadm.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 Summary: Utility to administer the Linux Virtual Server
 Name: ipvsadm
 Version: 1.25
-Release: 1
+Release: 2
 License: GPLv2+
 Group: Applications/System
 URL: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/ipvs.html
-Source: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/kernel-2.6/ipvsadm-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/kernel-2.6/ipvsadm-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1: ipvsadm.init
 Patch0: ipvsadm-1.24-Makefile.patch
 Patch1: ipvsadm-1.25-popt.patch
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ offered by the Linux kernel.
 
 
 %build
-# Don't use _smp_mflags as it makes to build fail (1.2.4)
+# Don't use _smp_mflags as it makes the build fail (1.2.4)
 CFLAGS="%{optflags}" make
 
 
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@ CFLAGS="%{optflags}" make
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/rc.d/init.d
 make install BUILD_ROOT=%{buildroot} MANDIR=%{_mandir}
+# Overwrite the provided init script with our own (mostly) LSB compliant one
+install -p -m 0755 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipvsadm
 
 
 %clean
@@ -62,6 +65,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 24 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.25-2
+- Fork the included init script to be (mostly) LSB compliant (#246955).
+
 * Mon Dec 22 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.25-1
 - Prepare update to 1.25 for when devel will update to kernel 2.6.28.
 - Build require libnl-devel and popt-devel (+ patch to fix popt detection).