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The system must employ a local IPv4 firewall.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-38555 RHEL-06-000113 SV-50356r2_rule Medium
Description
The "iptables" service provides the system's host-based firewalling capability for IPv4 and ICMP.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-04-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
None
Fix Text (F-43503r2_fix)
The "iptables" service can be enabled with the following commands:

# chkconfig iptables on
# service iptables start