On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:51 -0500, Hongwei Li wrote: > I also tried Firestarter. Strange thing is that I set some ports open > from it, and restart computer. Then, the iptables settings are the > "original output" plus whatever I set in firestarter, but the > file /etc/sysconfig/iptables goes back to "original" -- no port is > opened from that file. So, the firestarter saves its setting > somewhere else and adds them on top of the "original setting". Have you read the guides for using Firestarter? With some of these firewall rule tools you run them instead of iptables, not in conjunction with iptables. Firestarter might be one of them. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.