Understanding Firewall configurations

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Understanding Firewall configurations

Install iptables package

Before starting, we must make sure that iptables RPM installed. The iptables RPM is there in RedHat Linux installation CD #2. The file name generally starts with software package name with its version name as this:

iptables-1.2.11-3.1.RHEL4.i386.rpm.

Starting iptables

We can start, stop, and restart iptables after booting the system using the following commands:

# service iptables start

# service iptables stop

# service iptables restart