[CentOS] Question about rebooting and iptables rules persisting

Preston Crawford wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what is happening? I've tried iptables -save or
>>> whatever.
>>> Nothing seems to work in getting these ports to be open on reboot.
>>>
>> service iptables save
> 
> I did that and it doesn't help. Do you think it has to do with the order
> in which things happen? i.e. smb starting up after iptables? It would seem
> other people would have that problem, though, wouldn't they?

Could you post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/iptables after a service 
iptables save?