From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chip Upsal Subject: RE: netfilter hangups Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:27:17 -0700 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3019863CF306D211BA4500A0CC30812DC67914@exchange.cyberwolf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'...'" , netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Could the way i am restarting it cause it to refuse to honor new rules w/o rebooting? -----Original Message----- From: ... [mailto:betolourenco@ig.com.br] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:15 PM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: Re: netfilter hangups why are you doing it. try service iptables restart ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Upsal" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: netfilter hangups > 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 > >