IPTables

[Anthony Messina]

Chris Norman wrote:
> Hi people,
> I am running a server in college at the minute. I just re installed it 
> because (amoungst other things), IPTables wasn't doing anything. Now I 
> have exactly the same iptables problem.
> 
> If I do:
> service iptables start
> 
> I just get returned to the prompt, the same with /etc/init.d/iptables 
> start.
> 
> Why am I getting no output, how can I get iptables to start please?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->

have you defined iptables rules?  what are they?  what do your logfiles say?

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