ISSUE:
Temporarily and Permanently shutting down the SLES firewall.
It may become necessary to shutdown a Suse Server and/or SLES Image Firewall. If so, perform the following:
To Shutdown the firewall:
/sbin/Susefirewall2 off
To start the firewall:
/sbin/Susefirewall2 on
If you want to temporarily disable your firewall:
/etc/init.d/Susefirewall2_setup stop
Enter the above line without “stop” and you will see all available switches.