Default behavior w/iptables disabled

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:06 -0500, Joe Tseng wrote:
> I'm having problems configuring my firewall properly and I wanted to
> start fresh.  I zeroed out all my rules but my web client is still
> able to access my target web server.  I also turned off the firewall
> via the network config GUI and issued an /etc/init.d/network stop with
> identical results.  Does an F7 box with no rules allow all traffic
> through by default?

Is your browser on the same machine as the server?  Most firewall rules
won't affect the local loopback network.

Stopping the network should stop all traffic, but if you also have
network manager running, that can be bringing up interfaces separately
by itself.

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(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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