[vicf23]

I just went over my FC3 install with Debian stable. It went without incident, but the iptables configuration seems to be a lot diffrent. How can I completely disable iptables from starting? I know its usually not a smart thing to do, but this computer is already behind a firewall and its driving me insane not being able to use VNC on it.

Thanks.

[horndude]

iptables is software for adjusting/setting the kernels packet handling options, it doesnt run as a daemon

iptables -L will list the current ruleset

iptables -F will flush the current ruleset

normally the ruleset defaults to everything open or closed, depends on distro

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward should disable packet forwarding I think,not sure if debian uses that exact location for the variable

[vicf23]

Hey Horndude, thanks for your reply, but I got it. Guess I shoulda just messed around a little more before going to the fourms lol. Anyway, I tried flushing and port scaned to make sure the port was open. I think it may have been a VNC client issue.

Thanks anyway.