How To Install iptables on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptables
on CentOS 7.
What is iptables
The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel. If you need to set up firewalls and/or IP masquerading, you should install this package. The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel. If you need to set up firewalls and/or IP masquerading, you should install this package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iptables
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptables.
Install iptables on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iptables
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iptables on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iptables
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iptables on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iptables
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptables
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.