IPTables

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:18, 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,

If there are no errors in the rules, starting iptables is silent.

If you want to see the rules in effect, use the command "iptables -L"

>Chris Norman
><!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->

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