iptables forwarding not working/iptables-save not saving

[Robin Laing]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> Dear fellow testers,
>>
>> I am trying to setup a little dhcp server at school for my machines 
>> that my students use at school.  Iptables is not saving :(
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa iptables*
>> iptables-1.4.1.1-2.fc10.i386
>> iptables-ipv6-1.4.1.1-2.fc10.i386
> 
> If you're using the iptables command to directly change your setup, you
> have to use
> 
>     iptables-save >/etc/sysconfig/iptables
> 
> to save the current setup.  On boot, the system does an
> 
>     iptables-restore </etc/sysconfig/iptables
> 
> to restore those settings.  Or you can edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> yourself directly and do a "service iptables restart" to make them
> apply.
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Man, I wish I had seen this post last month when I was fighting with 
iptables.

Thank you.

-- 
Robin Laing