>> That occurred to me. But it just seems to me that if the "upstream >> provider" offers this GUI that manages the firewall, then the settings >> should stick after you reboot. That's why I'm nonplussed about this >> whole >> thing. Unless it has something to do with this being an original CentOS >> 4.0 install and something went amiss during updates, I'm not sure what >> it >> is. So here is the output Feizhou asked for. >> > > ERm...with Roy's suggestion about rc.local...do you have anything in > rc.local to messes around with iptables? You could be loading from > /etc/sysconfig/iptables only to have them all flushed away and replaced > with something else. That's one of many reasons I didn't go this route when I initially thought of it way back when (I've been living with this for months since reboots are so infrequent). Preston