All ports are closed after rebooting

I'm using Guarddog 2.4.0 on Gentoo.

All of my ports are closed after a reboot unless I manually run Guarddog 
and click OK or Apply.  When I do run Guarddog, the appropriate ports 
are opened and I can use the web, etc.

The first time I rebooted after installing and configuring Guarddog, 
iptables failed to load because it couldn't find a configuration file.  
I believe the error message was:

Not starting iptables.  First create some rules then run:
/etc/init.d/iptables save

I ran Guarddog and then did `/etc/init.d/iptables save` and iptables 
loaded succesfully on my next reboot.

Nonetheless, all of my ports continue to be closed upon rebooting.  I 
still have to explicitly run Guarddog to get any ports to open.

I have tried to find out just what it is that changes when I run 
Guarddog.  One thing that does change is that the ip_conntrack_ftp 
module gets loaded by Guarddog.  I have tried loading this module 
manually instead of running Guarddog, but it doesn't solve the problem.  
As a side note, if I build ip_conntrack_ftp into the kernel instead of 
as a module, Guarddog reports that the module is missing in the form of 
a fatal error.

I'd be happy to post my configuration files or that error message if 
that would be helpful.  I can also list the relevant lines of my kernel 
configuration.

I'm getting by with the workaround for now, but I really hope to find 
out what the solution is.  Thanks.



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