Yeap, that's pretty much what happened.  After some heavy digging in I found
my problem with iptables.  I'd been experimenting with IPv6, and the last
chain was:

iptables -A wan_local -j ACCEPT -p 41 --dport 4343

Protocol 41 is for IPv6.  Apparently, you can't specify the protocol number
with a TCP port in a chain like that.  So I had to change it to:

iptables -A wan_local -j ACCEPT -p tcp --dport 4343
iptables - A wan_local -j ACCEPT -p 41

Also, after checking, the firewall script ran just fine, up until that last
chain, which was also the last in the script, so it loaded all my other
rules up to that point.  So my firewall was indeed functioning.

-Lucas

----- Original Message -----
From: <dattaway@attaway.net>
To: "Lucas Peet" <lpeet@eccod.com>
Cc: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: mysterious reboot, system problems

> --dport is an alias used by iptables for --destination-port when using the
> tcp match extension.  It might be your script is reading data in a format
> that iptables can't parse.  It expects a "--protocol tcp" before you can
> use that range option.  Otherwise, that option isn't loaded.
>
> Sounds like your system had a long uptime.  And went through a few ugrades
> before it rebooted.  This happens to me when I forget to try out my
> changes with the bootscripts.  Many months can pass without a reboot and
> then the fun starts.
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:
>
> > My server rebooted last night out of the blue, and upon restart, things
aren't quite right.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working okay, but there's problems.
> >
> > For instance, now when I try to bring up my firewall, I get this:
> >
> > [root@riodo scripts]# ./firewall up
> > iptables v1.2.4: Unknown arg `--dport'
> > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> > [root@riodo scripts]#
> >
> > This worked fine before...
> >
> > That and it seems like the system isn't using the regular init scripts
to bring itself up - there's some custom things in some scripts (like mysql)
that aren't running.
> >
> > All kinds of bogus stuff.  I can't seem to find anything at all in my
logs either.  Some help would be *greatly* appreciated.
> >
> > -Lucas
> >
>
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