The IPTables "service" is not a daemon, but a simple script that loads rules from a file in sysconfing into the kernel NetFilter tables using iptables on start and clears them on stop. it can also do 'status' to list all the currently active rules and 'save' to save the currently active rules to the rule file. there is not actual program running.Message stop the IPtables deamon running in the background would be a good start/etc/init.d/iptables stoporservice iptables stop
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