iptables help

[Jessica Zhu]

I just did your suggestion. Still no effection. What's else I should do?

Thanks!

Jessica

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Bill Tangren wrote:

> Jessica Zhu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried to customize and set up firewall using iptables on Red Hat 
> > Enterprise Linux ES release 3. The file /etc/sysconfig/iptables got 
> > edited. After I finished editing, I restarted service using 
> > /etc/init.d/iptables restart or service iptables restart. However, though 
> > it's got successfully restarted, when I checked the status, none of my 
> > editing taking effection. 
> > It's weired. For example, the default chain INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD all 
> > are ACCEPT, down in new iptables I edited, it's like as follows,
> > 
> > *filter
> > :INPUT DROP
> > :FORWARD DROP
> > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> > 
> > But nothing take effection after iptables got restarted. What happened?
> > 
> > Jessica
> > 
> 
> You need to save the changes:
> 
> # service iptables save
> 
> before you stop and restart the service.
> 
> HTH,
> Bill
> 
>