I'm not sure as it relates specifically to XEN - but I would have a look through the /etc/rc.d directory. If it's not being turned on there, 'egrep -i iptables' /etc/init.d/* and see if it's in any startup script there. Slim chance they may be something in rc.local as well. -Peter 2008/6/9 Joseph L. Casale <JCasale at activenetwerx.com>: > I have a xen machine that has iptables turned off, and after a reboot it started behaving > badly during times when network IO rose to anything other than almost nil. Since I know > iptables makes xen unstable without some additional config and since its isolated I just > have is disabled. As a result it was the last place I looked and spent the better half of the > day chasing my tail. > > Somehow it gets turned on after a reboot, how can I deduce what is activating it? > > Thanks! > jlc > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >