why is iptables still filtering after i disable the firewall?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, NoOp wrote:

> On 09/15/2010 07:54 AM, Tom H wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> ...
> >> and while the forwarding rules shouldn't affect this, how can i simply
> >> disable the firewall entirely?  if i invoke "gufw" and disable the
> >> firewall, shouldn't that do it?
> >
> > How about "ufw reset" and/or "ufw disable"?
> >
>
> Or '$ man ufw' :-)
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/ufw.8.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW

  i *did* a "ufw disable" and still had filtering in the forwarding
chain, which i found confusing.

rday

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