IPTables Disable

General Help
1

I am trying to disable iptables. I am behind a router a firewall already and dont believe i need it. I would like to just tell iptables to allow EVERYTHING.

Is this whan i need to do step by step:
iptables -F
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables save

Thank YOU!

2

If you want it completely disabled just stop the service:

service iptables stop

To stop it permanently:

chkconfig --level 345 iptables off

3

ANother question,

That was my first thought. service iptables stop and chkconfig --level 345 iptables off … however when i boot up and run service iptables stop again to see if its disabled it shows it stopping? It shouldnt be started? chckconfig --list shows it off? I was wondering if fail2ban is turning it back on?

Thank You

4

Try going into the system admin module and stop it there.

5

If you don’t want iptables then there isn’t much point in running fail2ban either as that uses iptables as part of it’s banning mechanism. You can stop this in a similar way to iptables (e.g. with chkconfig).