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How To Enable Disable Firewall In Linux Shell Command Prompt Iptables
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This Post Was Posted On Sep 25, 2009 By web hosting #830

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to disable or enable a firewall is easy with fedora. if you have a fedora core distribution of linux, you can send this command to enabled or disabled your firewall that comes pre-installed with fedora.

system-config-securitylevel

after you do that, you will see this:

you can chack to see that it is disabled by running this command:

iptables -L

you should see something like this:

[rootserver1 ~]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Done

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#1079 1

thanks, i also wanted to know how can i disable firewall in linux. this is a good step by step tutorial guide. excellent work

Jun 07, 2007 Reply Report abuse

chucky

#1078 2

does this command work if i want to disable iptables at boot time?

chkconfig --levels 235 iptables off

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