[CentOS] iptables: forwarding on internal device

Sun Feb 8 03:48:30 UTC 2009
Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net>

On Saturday 07 February 2009 13:17, Marcus Moeller wrote:

>  >>  > Iptables -nL
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Show?
>  >>
>  >>  Here is the complete output (there are a lot of other rules active on
>  >>  that machine):
>  >
>  > [snip]
>  >
>  > Your rule is not showing up.  How did you set this rule up?
>  > If you added it to your firewall rules you need to restart the firewall.
>  > If you added it by hand then it must have spit out an error as it didn't
>  > take.
>
>  Doesn't it fit to just execute service iptables save?

That depends.  Are you using a script, other then the one provided by init.d, 
to start and setup your firewall then this is just going to save the running 
firewall to /etc/sysconf/iptables.  This is the file that is read by the 
script in init.d.


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Robert

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