Problem : Firewall not disabled on OEL 6 after running chkconfig iptables off and system reboot
To fix the problem you need to disable libvirtd
# chkconfig libvirtd off
# chkconfig libvirt-guests off
# chkconfig ip6tables off
# chkconfig iptables off
# chkconfig --list | egrep 'iptables|ip6tables|libvirt'
ip6tables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
libvirt-guests 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
libvirtd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
After a reboot the firewall should be disabled now
[root@grac43 ~]# service iptables status
iptables: Firewall is not running.
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great…thanks a lot …i was searching a lot to disable the firewall permanently ..and this worked fine for me on oel 6.8..appreciate…