Unexpected iptables behavior in FC5

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Stanton Finley wrote:
> When trying to set up a port range for bittorrent using the commands (as
> root):
> 
> /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT
> 
> and then:
> 
> /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> 
> and then listing iptables with:
> 
> /sbin/iptables -L
> 
> I get:
> 
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp
> dpts:6881:iatp-normalpri
> 
> as part of the output. This does not seem to include the port range
> 6881:6999 but only port 6881 and I've never seen "iatp-normalpri" on
> previous FC versions.

grep iatp-normalpri /etc/services

iatp-normalpri is just a symbolic name for tcp 6999 port.

	Jakub