

# yum install iptables-services -y How to stop the firewalld service and start the Iptables service

It isn’t installed automatically on CentOS 7.

To begin using iptables, you need to download and install iptables-service package from the repo. Here is a small How To guide on installing Iptables and disabling firewalld from a CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 or a similar variant distro. I had to stop firewalld and install iptables in all of my CentOS 7 installation and start using iptables rules as I was using before. I have been a big fan of iptables and it’s capability from the very first, and since I have switched to CentOS 7, I couldn’t stop using it. It uses a full functional firewall system called ‘firewalld’. CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 doesn’t come with iptables by default.
