Testing firewalld
Hi,
I'm using Fedora 17 (alpha) at the moment and was interested in testing
out the firewalld. It works so far, but I still have a few questions and
couldn't find much documentation (except for Developers).
*) Why should I change from ip*tables (with the system-config-firewall
front-end) to firewalld as an end-user? So far it seems to me, that
without a GUI (I wouldn't count the firewall-applet as a proper GUI) it
is way harder to configure.
*) My home network consists of 2 laptops with fedora and one Macbook.
I've placed my laptops into the 'home' zone. Now I wanted to share some
files and used samba. I added the service, but next day it didn't work
anymore. Do I really have to enable samba everytime I reboot the system
with 'firewall-cmd --add --zone=home --service=samba'? How can I add a
service permanently to a zone? Sorry if that's a stupid question but I
couldn't find anything about that.
*) I really, really love the zone idea. I hope the firewall-config tool,
that is mentioned in the Fedora Feature Page, will be in the repository
soon.
*) The firewall-applet doesn't do much at the moment, does it? Shouldn't
the .desktop file be hidden, so it doesn't show up in the Applications
(that's more a package maintainer problem, I guess)?
Well, that's it for now. I will be using it for a while and report bugs
if I stumble over one. So far no problems in standard usage (that means
no network printer, just casual home-user).
dobu