Well, what I mean by fresh install is this. We chose custom and selected the following things: Classic X windows X Windows GNOME KDE Network Support Windows File Server EMacs Utilities Software Development Kernal Development
Does one of these install iptables? That's the only explanation I have for how it got installed. We certainly didn't add it after the fact. I will look at lsmod and see what it shows. Thanks, James On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 09:02, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21 Nov 2002 08:18:52 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > > When I tried the "modprobe -r ip_tables" it gave me an error that the > > device was busy. > > This is because you provided not enough information about your > system which you claim would be a fresh install. Red Hat Linux 7.3, > however, is based on ipchains. Its firewall tools use ipchains. If > on your system the ip_tables kernel module and probably additional > netfilter modules are loaded, that means, you have modified Red Hat > Linux 7.3 and configured it to load modules which you may need to > remove manually. You can run "lsmod" and remove them with "rmmod" or > "modprobe -r", but that can be tricky when they depend on eachother. > > > The previous two commands seemed to work ok. > > Once you would execute the next two commands, that would enable > ipchains and a reboot would solve your problem with the iptables > modules. Alternatively, use the "lsmod" way of finding out which > modules you need to remove. > > > If I use iptables, should I remove ipchains completely? Right now the > > firewall is stuck on "High" and I can't change it. > > This doesn't make sense. See above. The firewall (which one?) of Red > Hat Linux 7.3 is based on ipchains, but you have the ip_tables > kernel module loaded. Something's wrong at your end. Only you can > tell what you've done. > > > Can I uninstall ipchains, by removing the rpm? Will that do it? > > That would remove the ipchains userspace tools. > > > How do I then open it up so there is no firewall? Isn't there a few > > iptables command to flush the rules or something? > > This doesn't make sense either. ipchains OR iptables? iptables > cannot flush ipchains rules and vice versa. They cannot coexist. > > > Then I can work on closing it back up again using the other tools you > > suggested. > > That's solely your decision. Netfilter (aka iptables) is superior, > but Red Hat's tools for Red Hat Linux 7.x use the older ipchains. > > > > Try this sequence as "root" user: > > > > > > # service iptables stop > > > # chkconfig iptables off > > > (at this point hope that you don't have many iptables modules > > > loaded) > > > # modprobe -r ip_tables > > > # chkconfig ipchains on > > > # service ipchains start > > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE93Odo0iMVcrivHFQRAlAmAJ9uVcL+xrns6UkKYIwQgDOdiYPK7wCdH3Xi > kYZ5VIAGqR8bMT+Sl+ATvzI= > =UPTI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
