You are still not answering my question...so let's break it down and make it easy.

In redhat/fedora distro's you have something like this:

'service iptables start' and the service is listed...

Hey,

If backtrack is not meant to have a firewall on it, why is ufw service (utilizing iptables) is running by default? Just curious.....

That doesn't really answer my question though. I was...

New to Backtrack, but not to *nix....

Situation:

This is a brand new Backtrack 5 R1 install. I don't really want to use 'ufw' firewall manager for my iptables. Iptables is clearly installed,...