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From: Chip Upsal <cupsal@cyberwolf.com>
Subject: netfilter hangups
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:00:20 -0700
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I am running nefilter 1.2.7a on a Redhat 7.3 box kernel v. 2.4.18-24.7.x.

I have experienced the following problems. Sometimes after making many
changes and reloading the firewall after each change...the firewall will
refuse to reload with the following output:

[root@iptables1 root]# /etc/sysconfig/iptables condrestart
iptables: Chain already exists
iptables: Chain already exists
iptables: Chain already exists
iptables: Chain already exists
iptables: Chain already exists

Or if i get no error the firewall will not recognize any of the changes i
have made.

In either case i am forced to reboot the firewall to get things going again.



Chip Upsal
SysAdmin