I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but I googled and attempted things for several hours today without success. I have a freshly installed CentOS 7 system that I'd like to disable the firewall and all iptables rules. Basically the equivalent of doing iptables -F In a nutshell I've tried the following commands, in many different ways and orders, but when the system restarts it still seems to end up with some form of default rules. It even has a couple rules specifying 192.168.122.0 and I can't figure out where it's coming from. #Disable Firewall systemctl stop firewalld systemctl disable firewalld rm '/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service' rm '/etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/firewalld.service' systemctl disable firewalld systemctl stop firewalld iptables --flush iptables --list iptables -L yum install iptables-services service iptables save systemctl enable iptables service iptables save Any help is appreciated. Thanks James