firewalld / iptables.service past F17

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Apr 25 23:27:05 UTC 2012


On 25/04/12 10:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:30 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>
>> Nothing is being taken away, the default is being changed.  If you're
>> using Fedora in production, I presume you're installing with
>> Kickstart.
>
> It's worth noting that if the question is how does firewalld handle
> upgrades, I think it may be somewhat irrelevant because AFAIK even when
> firewalld was going to be the F17 default, we never implemented anything
> to cause upgraded systems to switch to it. It was only new installs
> which were getting firewalld. Upgraded ones stuck with the static
> iptables/s-c-f/lokkit system.

Does that imply that new installs will be easily switched from firewalld
to static iptables? I always do new install but I want to keep my firewall
static, with my current iptables script.

Dariusz




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