Iptables output is not showing any connections

[James McKenzie]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am So, den 14.11.2004 schrieb James McKenzie um 0:31:
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>>I addes ports to my firewall using system-config-securitylevel and now 
>>the output of iptables -L -n -v shows the following
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>>Should it not show available connections and what they are doing?
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>>James McKenzie
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>Above command shows active netfilter rules in the filter table set by
>iptables. It will not show active connections or any "firewall in
>action". But if you have set filter rules with the
>system-config-securitylevel tool they should appear as rules from that
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>Alexander
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Is there a reason that ports 50 and 51 should be open on my firewall?  I 
looked at services and the process associated with port 50 is not 
running on my system and there appears to be no service associated with 
port 51.

James McKenzie