Important question

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:02 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 01:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 11:15 -0500, 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
> > Your report is very general, which makes it hard to get a hold of. I can
> > confirm the specific problem that a guest does not seem to be able to
> > ssh to an F18 host (192.168.122.1, usually) in the default NAT
> > networking config. For me it doesn't work with F17 guest or F18 guest.
> OK, I set it up and do a range of tests.  For comparison purposes I 
> could compare to F18 with firewalld disabled but it would be lots easier 
> for me to compare against the F17 host.

Comparing with firewalld disabled would be nice but probably not
compulsory.

> One more question, I would like to add the libvirt-1.0.01, 
> NetManager-git20121130, and dnsmasq-2.65 updates.  Is this OK or do you 
> want me to stick to what is in F18 only?

Please stick to the stock F18 package set.

> I am willing to put a bit of effort into this but I need guidance to 
> what information to collect.
> 
> BTW, there is nothing in syslog.  Is there some extra logging that I can 
> turn on for firewalld?  I do not want to play with the rules to add this 
> logging because I honestly do not understand the firewalld rules.

Not sure about that, but just precise details on what activities you're
trying and what's failing would be really useful.
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