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Turning off Centos 6 Firewall

In this article, we will show you how to disable the firewall in Centos 6.

First, log in to your server and enter the following codes one by one.

service iptables stop

service ip6tables stop

Note: One of the codes is for turning off the ipv4 and the other is for turning off the ipv6 firewall.

If you want to turn it off permanently, enter the codes below.

chkconfig iptables off

chkconfig ip6tables off

To return to IPTables from the firewall, you can use the code yum -y install iptables-services.