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

[Julian Field]

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On 27 Feb 2006, at 22:50, Dennis Willson wrote:

> If you're new to managing Linux,

Yeah, a bit, only been doing it since we first opened our public 24x7  
Linux lab back in 1993.

:-)

Thanks for the thought though ;->

> Webmin can make life a lot easier.  You can also sometimes learn a  
> few things by looking at the config files before and after you do  
> something in Webmin to understand what the configs are really doing.
>
> Dennis
>
> Julian Field wrote:
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>> Joshua Hirsh wrote:
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>>>> Any simple command ex: service firewall stop chkconfig firewall or
>>>> something to turn it off?
>>>>
>>> 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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