[luau] disabling iptables

[Ben Beeson]

Ronnie,

	Depending on which version of firewall software you are using this may be 
easy or slightly more difficult.  My startup script  
(/etc/rc.d/init.d/firewallcontrol) has a "stop" option that shuts down my 
firewall. If yours doesn't, you may have to just "flush" the tables.  If you 
are using something like iptables,  then you need something similar to 
"/sbin/iptables -t filter -F INPUT " to flush the INPUT filter.  

There is a HOWTO for iptables at:  
http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO.html

Ipchains has a similar command set that can be used.  

I'd make sure I understood what I was doing with this though, as you may end 
up leaving yourself "open" to the outside world if you are not careful.  I 
tend to restart my firewall from the init script as a matter of course after 
any tinkering just to make sure it is in the state that I need it.

Good luck,

Ben 




On Thursday 30 May 2002 01:18 pm, you wrote:
> hola, is there a command I can use to disable my firewall?  or maybe
> some command to see if a firewall script is running or not.  I'm trying to
> see if my problem is caused by the firewall or not.
>
> thanks,
> Ronnie