I have what I believe to be the latest openwrt installed.. i ran ipkg update, ipkg upgrade so I should be up to date....

I setup custom iptables rules to allow routing of port 80 and 22  (http/ssh).
I ran iptables-save and it works fine.... 

problem is, everytime i reboot the router, all my iptables rules are flushed.

My other problem is.. i can seem to get tftp to work to transfer a new image to the router.  Is there anyway i can sftp the image? or are there particular instructions on doing this.  I tried using linksys' tftp client, aftp,

nothing seems to work.

Thanks for any help.

Sam

If you're going to use iptables-save make sure you have an iptables-restore somewhere in startup to load your saved rules. IMHO the save/restore is a waste of space, much more efficient to just put all your iptables rules in a script (like the one that comes with openwrt).

I'm confused as to why you want to reflash if you already have the latest firmware.

I wanted to flash the router to try out various different OS?  is that the proper term for the WRT54G(S).  I tried adding my custom rules to /etc/firewall.user but I was given an error that the file system is mounted as read-only:

-ash: cannot create /etc/firewall.user: Read-only file system

here's my fstab: 

root@OpenWrt:/etc# mount
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro)
none on /rom/dev type devfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock/4 on / type jffs2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)