firewalld?

[Neal Becker]

Thomas Woerner wrote:

> On 02/14/2013 07:39 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I have a new f18 install.  I see it has
>> rpm -q firewall-config
>> firewall-config-0.2.12-2.fc18.noarch
>>
>> But my older system that I updated from f17 does not have this, it
>> is using the older firewall config (which I manually configured).
>>
> Up to F-17 the default firewall solution was
> system-config-firewall/lokkit using the iptables and ip6tables services.
> 
> With F-18 firewalld is the default. firewall-config is the graphical
> configuraiton program for firewalld. system-config-firewall is not able
> to configure firewalld, there is an error dialog if you are trying to
> use system-config-firewall/lokkit with firewalld. Also firewall-config
> is not able to configure system-config-firewall/lokkit.
> 
>> Should I bother to install firewall-config on my older system?  Does
>> it offer some advantage?
>>
> There is a firewalld version available in F-17, but it does not provide
> the zone model and there is no firewall-config.
> 
> Thomas

Thanks, but acutally, I was asking should I bother installing firewalld on my 
f18 system, which was updated from f17 and did not get firewalld.  I think I 
used fedup.