On May 28, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Chris Heiner wrote:
Version 4.5, there all fairly new.
In 4.5, ipchains is no longer used; iptables is used instead.
The changes you make (using the iptables command) are made in the kernel's memory. To save the changes to /etc/sysconfig/iptables, use the "service iptables save" command. When the system is booted (and the iptables service is enabled) it will read that file back into the kernel's memory.