[CentOS] How to preserve iptables when running the GUI tool ?

Mon Dec 5 21:07:49 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Vreme: 12/05/2011 09:32 PM, Timothy Madden piše:
> Hello
>
> I have set up NAT with iptables for an openvpn connection, so that the
> VPN server could give VPN clients access to the entire sub-net of the
> server.
>
> The probelm is if I start system-config-securitylevel to say disable the
> firewall, and then again to enable it, my iptable rules are gone !
>
> I did run `service iptables save` before.
>
> Is there something I can do to prevent this ? Is there a gui interface
> to enable NAT over a VPN connection that cooperates with
> system-config-network ?

Just stop the firewall via "service iptables stop" like any service, and 
start it again in the same manner.

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