[CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

[Timothy Murphy]

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

>> (1) I can open port 22 on the Billion, allowing me to ssh in from
>> outside. But for some reason I cannot ping the same address from outside.

> This is due to modem refuses to answer to pings. You might have option
> to allow it in modem config.
> 
> Ping (ICMP) does not use ports but it is packet of type 8.

Thanks again for your response.
Could CentOS be preventing me from pinging the system?

> When you turn off firewall, it stops routing packets so they can not be
> passed to systems behind it.
> 
> Only option I can think of is to use shorewall as firewall and add
> NAT/Masquerade and the rest of the rules to routestoped confgi file:

I was using Shorewall before I went over to CentOS-6,
and will probably go over to it.

But I don't really need to disable the firewall on the server.
I just thought I'd try it as an experiment.

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