Re: [fedora-virt] Connect from remote host

[Cole Robinson <crobinso redhat com>]

On 11/05/2009 12:04 PM, Andrés García wrote:
> Hi,
>> Turn it off with service iptables stop and see if it helps at all.
>>
>>    
> 
> That did it, sorry if this is a silly question but iptables have always 
> been a bit of a mistery to
> me, may I disable them without any ill effects? The office already has a 
> firewall, so I don't really
> need it for security reasons.
>

There are potential security implications, but if you are using a
desktop machine (as in, this isn't a production server) already behind a
corporate firewall, you probably have nothing to worry about.

- Cole