[luau] disabling iptables

[Ronnie T Livingston]

hi Ben, I've been having problems where I cant ping, ssh, or view webpages
from my server from the local LAN at work.  I thought it might be the
firewall causing this.  I don't know if I disabled it correctly but I went
to setup and unchecked iptables and rebooted, then ran that the command I
stated earlier and didn't see any rules so I assumed it worked.  My
problem still occurs so I guess the firewall wasn't the problem after all.

-Ronnie

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.  -Albert Schweitzer

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Ben Beeson wrote:

> 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
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