I had a similar problem with RH8. It was because iptables wasn't actually
loading as a service so I simply wgetted the latest iptables RPM from
rpmfind.net and installed that.

Then, load your tables from before and:

iptables-save
service iptables save
service iptables restart

Hopefully that should now load it all up on boot.
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"Paul M." <paul.marquardt@mortgagefamily.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm setting up a RedHat 8.0 box on the network with a static
> address. It is a relatively uncustomized box other than running some
> security updates and turning off unwanted services. I need to run
> portmap, which is why I need to filter network access. I've created a
> set of iptables rules, loaded them and saved them into
> /etc/sysconfig/iptables using iptables-save. It's a simple setup-- no
> NAT/masq, etc, just a simple port filter. I've tested it and it does
> what I want. I go home and come back in the morning and run iptables
> -L. All my rules are gone. I can reload the rules from
> /etc/sysconfig/iptables, but its hard to convince my boss that a port
> filter that deletes its own rules is a good thing. Is RedHat trying to
> "help" me ala Windows? Is there some daemon that doesn't like my rule
> set? I did not have this problem in RedHat 7.2. Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Paul M.