firewall

nagavinodh · 04-12-2010, 02:14 AM

Hi,

We installed the red hat 4.2 in vmware.How to check the firewall is enable in that machine.How to turn on/off.Can i restrict the particular ip.

Sayan Acharjee · 04-12-2010, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by nagavinodh

Hi,

We installed the red hat 4.2 in vmware.How to check the firewall is enable in that machine.How to turn on/off.Can i restrict the particular ip.

To check if firewall is turned on or off use thge following command:

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#service iptables status

To view the implemented firewall rules:

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#iptables -L

To turn off firewall:

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#service iptables stop

And yes you can restrict a particular ip according to your wish.