When I reboot my box, iptables does not run.
if I service iptables start|stop iptables get start it. I checked chkconfig and iptables is on on run level 3 and 5. what could be wrong; which log can look into to see why ipatabels is not launching on reboot?
Check the output of the logs in /var/log/messages. "grep iptables /var/log/messages" should do it.
Check to see that your system is not also starting ipchains (the older firewalling code that iptables replaced) because the two conflict. "rpm -q ipchains" will tell you if it's installed, and if it is, then do this:
# service ipchains stop
# rpm -e ipchainsA program called lokkit may also be installed with ipchains. You can safely change that last line to "rpm -e ipchains lokkit" to remove them both.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
