Comments on: How To: Disable Firewall on RHEL / CentOS / RedHat Linux

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:17:44 +0000

Thanks,
This helped a lot.
I was trying to execute a command using rsh on one of my RHEL servers in a private network but was unable to do that. Turns out that all I needed was to disable the firewall.

By: darrell

darrell — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:14:44 +0000

thanks so much ,I spent 2 days trying to access home server, Now works fine
You made my day !!!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:58:03 +0000

Just a question:

if i only stop iptables service without stopping ip6tables, does the firewall still block all connections even if they are ipv4? Or it only stops ipv6 connections?
Iptables service is for ipv4 connections, and ip6tables for ipv6 ones, so i would like to know if stopping iptables is enough to disable firewall, or it still remain active if ip6tables is active.
Thanks
Rob

By: LeeThong

LeeThong — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:36:55 +0000

thanks !

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:56:09 +0000

G8 ! to the point and well documented .

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:15:12 +0000

Hi there, thanks for this. Just wondering, what does the service “save” command do?

By: k3b

k3b — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:01:24 +0000

Thanks, this is the right way to disable firewall in my case was under CentOS server

By: Mughees Hafeez

Mughees Hafeez — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:40:34 +0000

Dear Thanks, for such a productive commands… most of the user have the problem after installing httpd that its not showiing in the browser….. a tip for them disable SElinux and as well as firewall method given above… it will work fine insh ALLAH

By: matt

matt — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:47:34 +0000

Thanks… graphical install of RHEL5.5 automatically starts the firewall (and selinux in paranoid mode) which completely compromises using it as a pxe server… this fixed the last issue quickly.

By: SF

SF — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:27:21 +0000

Thank You!
Worked Perfectly!

By: Private

Private — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:10:10 +0000

Thank you! :)

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:42:31 +0000

Thanks a ton. My problem is solved and i can leave home now.

By: Sayeed Salahuddin

Sayeed Salahuddin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:02:31 +0000

Excellent, it made my apache and vncserver connect successfully :)

thanks,
Sayeed

By: Dean Hales

Dean Hales — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:18:26 +0000

service iptables restart

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:20:31 +0000

How do you restart it?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:50:18 +0000

Excellent, you save my day

By: julien alarmiste

julien alarmiste — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:21:09 +0000

thanks very much;
i’m french and, also, I need just this command for my appache server … !!

By: evil DBA

evil DBA — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:46:41 +0000

gracias me fue muy útil!!!

By: jottos

jottos — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:38:05 +0000

thanks, right to the point, just what I needed.

By: cindy watson

cindy watson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:58:09 +0000

#service iptables save #service iptables stop #chkconfig iptables off