Temporarily disable the ESX firewall

*Temporarily disable the ESX firewall with service firewall stop or the following commands:
-esxcfg-firewall -allowIncoming
-esxcfg-firewall -allowOutgoing
*Permanently disable the firewall with chmod 644 /etc/init.d/firewall
(re-enable with chmod 744)
*Enable the ESX firewall with the following commands:
-service firewall start (if it was stopped)
-esxcfg-firewall -blockIncoming
-esxcfg-firewall -blockOutgoing
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