my iptables setting not loaded after reboot in fc5

Samuel Díaz García samueldg at arcoscom.com
Thu May 18 20:40:29 UTC 2006


Create by hand an script to load your rules (many of us do that).

You can try FWBuilder (a frontend for iptables).

Regards

Hongwei Li escribió:
>> First you should set the iptables rules to what you desire. Then you should
>> save them with
>>
>> iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
>>
>> and having set the settings I refered to to "yes", the iptables should
>> survive after a reboot.
>> It works perfectly with my system. I think the problem is that you
>> rebooted/restarted
>> iptables before setting them up, and that's why you don't get any rules now.
>>
> -- NO. I did exactly as what you said:
> 1. set my rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> 
> 2. edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and set
> IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_STOP="yes"
> IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_RESTART="yes"
> 
> 3. run service iptables restart
> 
> 4. run iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> -- after that, I checked the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables, it does have what I
> set, the only change is the timestamp.
> 
> 5. reboot
> 
> 6. the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables goes to the "oroginal" one and no port is
> opened -- all of my settings are gone.
> 
>> The best way to correct this I guess is through the graphical helper go to
>> Start->System->Administration->Security Level and Firewall
>>
> 
> That is not useful. I discussed with several other people before -- it does
> not provide the way to set source IPs.  I will try Firestater.
> 
> Hongwei
> 

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