Actaully it was a bug in Redhat's implementation of iptables.  I believe the
update only modifies Redhat's firewalling scripts.

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Spinti [mailto:jspinti at dart.dartdist.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:18 PM
> To: Tclug-List
> Subject: [TCLUG] iptables
> 
> 
> Just got this.  Since there has been a discussion about 
> iptables recently,
> thought it might be relevant.
> 
> *** {01.46.001} Linux - RedHat firewall/iptables save file problems
> 
> RedHat has released an advisory indicating that some bugs in iptables
> may prevent the RedHat firewall script from functioning properly,
> leaving the system unprotected.
> 
> Updated RPMs are available at:
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/redhat/2001-q4/0119.html
> 
> Source: RedHat
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/redhat/2001-q4/0119.html
> 
> 
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