How to: Disable firewall on RHEL / CemtOS / Redhat Linux
Q. I don't want firewall because I only run one http (port 80) public service. How do I turn off or disable firewall permanently under RHEL?
A. iptables is administration tool / command for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT.
service is a command to run a System V init script. It is use to save / stop / start firewall service.
chkconfig command is used to update and queries runlevel information for system service. It is a system tool for maintaining the /etc/rc*.d hierarchy. Use this tool to disable firewall service at boot time.
How do I disable firewall?
First login as a root user
Next enter the following three commands to disable firewall.
# service iptables save
# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off
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