


You can get basic information (although not thorough enough) from an old thread here. NOTE: If you are not familiar with how to secure your system with iptables I suggest you familiarize yourself before attempting the changes. Be sure to add rules to both iptables and ip6tables. That's it, you are now ready to use iptables. Now let's start and enable iptables, and we should also do the same for ip6tables (ipv6 firewall). Now let's install the old iptables services package. These instructions should be the same for CentOS 7, Fedora 21, RHEL 7 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) and similar distros.įirst let's stop and disable firewalld with the following commands: To switch from firewalld, install the iptables service then enable it. Both have their merits, but thats a different article all together. How can I remove firewalld and use iptables instead.Ī: A lot of people feel the same way you do when something new is introduced. I am comfortable with iptables and prefer to use it instead of firewalld. Q: I have aCentOS box and find firewalld confusing and more than I need. Question sent in by anonymous from Chicago
