Hi, On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:15, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > However this does not get put into the iptables configuration even after > running iptables-save iptables-save will only output the rules in a way that iptables-restore will be able to rebuild the rules from. If what you want is for these rules to be up when you boot the machine, what you want is probably "service iptables save", which will use iptables-save to record these rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables, and a script automatically calls iptables-restore to read that file upon boot. HTH, Filipe