why is iptables still filtering after i disable the firewall?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Christopher Chan wrote:

> Karl Auer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:42 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>   then what would be the incantation for disabling iptables entirely?
> >> i can only *guess* that this is what's causing my problem as i can't
> >> think of any other reason for not being able to ping out.
> >
> > You can't "disable iptables" short of rebuilding your kernel. However,
> > you can tell iptables to filter nothing:
>
> I think not loading the netfilter modules would be pretty much
> disabling iptables.

  i guess i'm spoiled by RH/fedora, where i just did:

  # service iptables stop/start

a quick google turns up this:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-howto-disable-remove-firewall/

and that still appears to be the case today.  it seems odd that one
can't disable iptables with a simple command in ubuntu.

rday

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