Re: IPtables does not save it's settings

[Ted Phelps <phelps@gnusto.com>]

Ronald writes:
> Since a week, I have been trying to figure out how iptables works. I 
> really like the program, it's nice and stable. However, since my last 
> changes the firewall doesn't seem to save the changes I make. Everytime 
> I reboot, my changes are reversed. What could have caused this?

It's designed to work that way.  Use iptables-save to write your config
to a file and iptables-restore read it back out.

Cheers,
-Ted