OT: building a new MS machine and stuck at the firewall

[Julian Field]

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Joshua Hirsh wrote:
>> Any simple command ex: service firewall stop chkconfig firewall or
>> something to turn it off?
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> Hi Billy,
>
>  You have a few options:
>
>  1) type 'setup' as root and disable the firewall from there
>  2) type 'service iptables stop', and 'chkconfig iptables off' (this disabled the firewall startup script)
>  3) for a temporary removal until next reboot, type 'iptables -F' (this flushes out the iptables rules)
>   
Once you've got iptables in, how do you configure it?
Presumably there are some reasonable firewall configuration tools 
included with RHEL/CentOS?
I've always just done it the hard way, any time I've needed it (which is 
rarely, we have FW-1 connected to an active IDS), but there must be an 
easy way.

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