Btw. totally disabling the firewall clears all entries in iptables, thus 
resulting in no more traffic allowed at all.

I as a simple user would have expected that disabling a firewall ALLOWS all 
traffic.

Michael wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Yesterday I tried to add a custom firewall action to arno's firewall on my
> astlinux box. This was in order to enable an external SIP phone to connect
> to asterisk.
> 
> As I know the external IP and MAC I added a rule to pass EXT->local port
> 5060 from the specified IP address and restarted the firewall.
> 
> Result however was still no connection. So, I added another rule to log
> local in from that IP. But I got no log whatsoever from this IP.
> 
> I then checked the resulting iptables conf (I am no expert here, but I
> searched for the IP or the port) and found NO reference to my rules.
> 
> Then I tried to delete the two custom actions, but to NO avail?! I can
> check the delete option on both rules. Then hitting save settings and
> nothing changes. The rules remain.
> 
> I can click on the disable button and save settings. This works (at least
> in the gui the rules are marked as disabled).
> 
> So, I am not sure if I am doing anything wrong here, but at least a delete
> of the rules should be possible, right?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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