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How to enable Iptables firewall in

CentOS 7 / RHEL 7
After fresh Installation of CentOS 7, I was trying to open
some ports using iptables as usual in CentOS 5 or CentOS
6. Something was wrong with iptables service. Ok.. Let’s
see why its not available and how to enable iptables
firewall in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7.

Asnwer:With the relase of CentOS 7 / RHEL 7, firewalled

was introduced to manage iptables. But fortunately it is
possible to go back a more classic iptables setup:

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Enable Iptables firewall in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

1. Stop Firewalld Service

# systemctl stop firewalld

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Disable Firewalld Service

# systemctl mask firewalld

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Use following command to Install iptables-service

package

# yum -y install iptables-services

Enable the service at startup

# systemctl enable iptables

5. Start iptables service

# systemctl start iptables

Now iptables are available as your firewall, you can

remove / add rules as you were doing in older releases of
CentOS /RHEL 5 and 6. Enjoy :). Do not forget to say
thanks if it works for you.

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