why is iptables still filtering after i disable the firewall?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Just tried "ufw disable" and it cleared the iptables rules, until a
reboot; had to do "ufw disable; ufw reset".