LXer: How to open a port in the firewall on CentOS or RHEL

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LXer: How to open a port in the firewall on CentOS or RHEL

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10-26-2014, 09:15 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,596 Rep:	LXer: How to open a port in the firewall on CentOS or RHEL Published at LXer: Out of the box, enterprise Linux distributions such as CentOS or RHEL come with a powerful firewall built-in, and their default firewall rules are pretty restrictive. Thus if you install any custom services (e.g., web server, NFS, Samba), chances are their traffic will be blocked by the firewall rules. Read More...

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