Roy Ong wrote: > well if you followed the thread you will realize that the original > poster said that he did indeed do an iptables save but that didn't help > in his case. furthermore i did clarify to say that The thing to do then is find out why he has a problem and not come up with a less than optimal work around. > > "its not the safest way, but heck, I'm hoping it will work for you" > > i definitely AGREE that running the firewall rules till AFTER the system > + services are up and running could be a potential hazard with a small > period of vulnerability (few seconds) but having no other choice, a > quick script to turn on the firewall rules at the very last is better > than running nothing at all ... well, there are 2 sides to a coin and i > definitely understand your concern, hence my little disclaimer within my > original reply. His problem is that the firewall is still locking him down. How can you say then that he is running nothing at all?