Ok, first off I'm new to Netfilter and Iptables.
I've setup an old computer running linux to act as a firewall. It has
access to the net. On my internal network I have a Win 98 machine connected
to my linux box/firewall also with access to the net.
I used firehol to start out with to set up my iptable rules. I then saved
the iptable rules and disabled firehol.
When I boot my linux box I see the message "Applying iptable firewall rules".
From the linux box I can ping the external (internet) and the internal
networks.
From my Win 98 machine I can ping the linux box, but not the internet.
If go to etc/rc.d/init.d and do a ./iptables restart
everything works fine. (using RedHat Fedora)
It took me a while to get to this point. Everything seems to be working the
way I want. I'm just trying to figure out why I must restart Iptables for
the rules to work?
Thank you.
