Alexander Farber wrote: <snip> > Is there a way to add comments to the iptables file? > A hash mark # does not seem to work. assuming you are talking about /etc/sysconfig/iptables , hash is indeed the comment mark, and works fine. In my file on this system all comment lines have a hash as first character on the line though, so perhaps it doesn't like end-of-line comments but only accepts full lines of comment.