Linuxconf is not installed in RH7.2 by default anymore. So you could do /sbin/service ipchains stop to stop the firewall. ""Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck" Regards, P.K. Chong Chong Poh Kit Post-graduate Student Multimedia University chongpohkit@ieee.org Tel:6016-3174831 (M) / 603-90768272 (H) 06/03/2002 On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:18:06 -0500 (EST), Ivan Ganev wrote: ->On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ranjeeta wrote: -> ->> ->> So, I finally decided to do a fresh installation choosing "No ->Firewall" ->> -> ->Actually, you can start/stop the firewall without reinstalling from ->scratch. Just fire-up "linuxconf" and go to "Control -> Control ->Panel -> ->Control Service Activity -> Firewall"... -> ->--Ivan -> ->-------------------------------------------------------------------- ->---------- -> Ivan Ganev 327236 Georgia Tech ->Station -> College of Computing Atlanta, GA 30332 ->Georgia Institute of Technology 1-(404)-365-8694 -> ganev@cc.gatech.edu ->http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ganev ->-------------------------------------------------------------------- ->---------- -> Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. -> -- W. Edwards Deming ->