Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:07:11 -0400 From: mattdm@fedoraproject.org To: firewalld-users@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Re: what are the advantages of firewalld over iptables?
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.
Do I understand correctly that the state issue (failure to maintain established connections) is only relevant when restarting iptables (service iptables restart), not when e.g. adding/deleting a rule (iptables -A / iptables -D) or restoring (iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables)?
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