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Follow these instructions to disable/clear your firewall rulesets for various firewalls.
pf
Disable firewall
pfctl -d
Enable firewall
pfctl -e
iptables
This will get you started. For more in-depth testing, see https://github.com/QueuingKoala/netfilter-samples/tree/master/reset-rules
Save a backup of current firewall config
iptables-save > ~/fw-backup.ipt
Restore a firewall config
iptables-restore < ~/fw-backup.ipt
Completely turn off firewalling
iptables -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t nat -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -P PREROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t filter -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -t filter -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t filter -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -t filter -F iptables -t filter -X