service network is disabling my iptables firewall

[beijingjj]

I have setup a firewall with iptables, saved settings in /etc/sysconfig/iptables. When I start the iptables service it reinstates my firewall as it should, but when I then start the networking service it disables the firewall. I have no idea where or why it's doing this. It's happening on two different machines. I'm running FC3. Anyone seen this?

[macemoneta]

Make sure iptables is set to automatically start:

# chkconfig --list iptables
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

[beijingjj]

It is, and I can see the "succeeded" messages in /var/log/messages