Important question

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 12/18/2012 08:15 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> OK, so maybe I an nuts but it seems to me that there is this 800 pound 
> gorilla wondering around the Fedora 18 tent and its name is 
> firewalld!  Or it with respect to virtual guests and libvirt (since 
> libvirt is a critical part of networking support).
>
> Maybe I am missing some critical information as to how to configure 
> firewalld so that guests can perform functions which the same guest 
> can do on a Fedora 17 host.  She only firewalld configuration I have 
> been able to come up with is to configure it disabled.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888288
>
> I have test this problem on different hardware and with/without mu 
> usual updates of libvirt-1.0.1 and NetworkManager-git20121130. Please 
> tell me that there is just this little thing I need to do and 
> everything will work.
>
> With Fedora 18 to be released "real soon now", this is a very big 
> problem!  I remember with SELinux first appeared ... most people 
> disabled it.  Is this what is going to happen with firewalld?
>
> A big part of my problem is that I see little notice that there is a 
> problem.
>
> I do not like cross posting but this needs to be on a couple of lists 
> so I will be sending each a copy of this message.
>
> Gene
I almost always have to disable selinux to get almost anything out of 
the ordinary done.
It would be nice to have the option of not having the selinux slowing 
down the system.

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