Why system-config-firewall showing firewall as enabled eventhough iptables service is stopped?
Issue
- Need to disable the firewall on RHEL servers. Stopped the iptables service to turn off the firewall as below:
# service iptables save
# service iptables stop
# service ip6tables save
# service ip6tables stop
# chkconfig iptables off
# chkconfig ip6tables off
- When running
service iptables (or ipt6tables) status
it shows:
iptables: Firewall is not running.
ip6tables: Firewall is not running.
- But, when logged in to console and click
System --> Administration --> Firewall
, it shows the message: The firewall is enabled . How to disabled the firewall completely?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Firewall/iptables
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