how can i turn off the firewall using Fedora Core 1 ?

HeRCuLeSX · 04-22-2004, 09:42 AM

hi ,
i'm using a p2p client called gtk-gnutella ..
and i need to turn off my firewall
i turned off the firewall in redhat-config-security
but i don't know the p2p client shows that the firewall is still turned on ..
Can you help?

Pcghost · 04-22-2004, 11:09 AM

From the command line type

service iptables stop

or

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

chort · 04-22-2004, 05:24 PM

You really shouldn't be turning off your firewall, especially if you're using a P2P service. Instead, find out what ports the P2P client needs to use and open those up (or there's probably a netfilter module that you can install that will track the connections and allow them for you).

I used Gnutella on a Linux box before, behind a firewall, and there were no problems.

HeRCuLeSX · 04-23-2004, 05:40 AM

Still i can't get connected to Gnutella servers

Pcghost · 04-23-2004, 12:07 PM

So now it is safe to assume the firewall is not the problem, if it still cannot connect with the firewall down. I suggest turning the firewall back on, and enabling logging to help you figure out where your connection breaks.