On Monday 17 February 2003 01:46 am, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > Ok, this one is bizarre. I have a small shell script to clear my > iptables rules and then insert 9 rules. If I run my script and then do > "iptables -n -L" my rules show up. > > If I keep doing "iptables -n -L" after about 10-20 seconds the rules > disappear and I am left with three empty INPUT/OUTPUT/FORWARD tables. > > Where did my rules go? What made them disappear? Does this happen if you add rules manually, from a console, or only from the script? I've never heard of any bug that could cause this, there must be something that is explicitly removing the rules, or using "iptables -F" or similar to flush rules from the chains. If you have nat or mangle table enabled, try creating a rule in one of them as well, and listing that table with "iptables -n -L nat" or "-L mangle" and see if the same thing happens there. j
