why is iptables still filtering after i disable the firewall?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Christopher Chan wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i suspect this is based on my unfamiliarity with the way ubuntu
> > pre-10.10 deals with firewalls but i'm trying to simply ping from
> > my ubuntu system to a centos 5.5 box on the same in-house wireless
> > network and i'm getting icmp responses, "Destination Host
> > Unreachable."  yet i can ping the other way (centos -> ubuntu).
>
> I would completely uninstall 'uncomplicated firewall' and restart
> the network. Ubuntu's complicated approach to trying to make it
> simple for users to setup firewall rules is just broken.

  then what would be the incantation for disabling iptables entirely?
i can only *guess* that this is what's causing my problem as i can't
think of any other reason for not being able to ping out.

rday

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