Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want  
> in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually  bring up the  
> Firestarter user interface during a given session. Once I log off  
> (restart not necessary) the rules are apparently reset to the default.
>
You can check this by running (as root): 

iptables -L

If there are no firewall rules active, it will look something like this:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination    

-Rob