On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:18, Chris Norman wrote: > Hi people, > I am running a server in college at the minute. I just re installed it > because (amoungst other things), IPTables wasn't doing anything. Now I have > exactly the same iptables problem. Simple observation but just in case you missed it: If you typed in a bunch of rules .. Then first do : service iptables save Otherwise your rules will be removed by service iptables start.