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From: Stephen Satchell <list@fluent2.pyramid.net>
Subject: Re: Starting iptables problem
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:08:24 -0700
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To: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

At 08:29 PM 10/24/2003 +0000, Stephen Liu wrote:
># /etc/init.d/iptables start
>* WARNING:  "net.eth0" has already been started.
>* Not starting iptables. First create some rules then run
>* /etc/init.d/iptables save

RTFCL (read the nice console log).

It says you don't have any rules defined.  That means there is no saved 
rules where Gentoo expects to find them.  So define some rules using the 
iptables utility, then run /etc/init.d/iptables save, and then you should 
be good to go.

Finding example rulesets is a Google search away.

Satch



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