From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: The latest script fails to properly execute iptables-restore leaving the firewall wide-open upon reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure firewall with iptables commands 2.Execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables save 3.Reboot machine 4.Login and execute iptables -L Actual Results: Default entries in iptables as if executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop Expected Results: Should have had all firewall rules as loaded prior to reboot. Additional info: I have modified the Init Script file to correct this issue. ftp://wattscomputers.com/pub/fixes/iptables The issue initially occured when using up2date which downloaded and installed iptables-1.2.4-0.71.2.i386.rpm
Get the 1.2.4 package from errata - it fixes this and a couple of other security problems.