Re: what are the advantages of firewalld over iptables?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:54:54AM -0400, Patrick Hinkley wrote:
> this is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find a
> very good comparison outlining the advantages of firewalld over
> iptables -- what are they?

There are two big ones:

- higher-level API programs can use
- keeping track of state

The classic example for the last one is that with firewalld, you can
restart iptables without breaking all of your virtual machines.