Iptables startup question

[Pete Nesbitt]

On October 27, 2004 03:38 pm, Rudolf Ladyzhenskii wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have slight problem with Red Hat 9.0. It is running on my Internet
> gateway machine. If I reboot it, there is no Internet traffic goes through.
> I have to run:
> 'service iptables restart' to get it going.
>
> The interesting thing is that iptables is running on boot up and it is
> verified by using 'service iptables status'. But I have to restart it to
> get working.
>
> Thsi problem did not exist while I was running RH 7.2.
> Now, I have built another machine  at work to serve as network gateway. Red
> Hat 9.0 and I have exactly same problem on it.
>
> My guess would be the sequency of services starting. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Rudolf


Hi,
I beleive there was either a patch for iptables (or maybe a kernel patch). I 
had this on a box at work (either RHEL 2.1 or maybe RH 9).

Sorry I can't give any more details, but it sounds like the same problem 
anyway, Check at fedoralegacy.org for updates.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce