Try: /sbin/chkconfig --level=2345 ipchains off /sbin/rmmod ipchains Hope that helps. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Laxman Gummadavally [mailto:laxman@oxynetworks.com] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 5:11 AM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: help Hi, How to disable Ipchains in Linux??? I need to enable iptables ........... Thanks Laxman