Tag: iptables

One way to compile xtables-addons without error

There seems to be some consistency on how to compile xtables-addons.  Notice I didn’t suggest an agreement in the more popular approaches.  It seems that much of the approach is more of a copy and paste from one site to the next with some slight variation.  What generally isn’t immediately obvious is the version of CentOS used or the version…

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Disable firewall on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server

Using a Windows box with Putty to install and execute jboss with it’s own Tomcat instance using the default port of 8080 on a fresh built Red Hat Enterprise Linux box, everything looked to be fully operational; however, I could not access the web address from a remote box. I quickly realized that the firewall was fully operational (from previous…

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