Setting the default firewall configuration (was Re: Attention, dependency fighters)

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 14:48 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 15.11.2012 13:33, schrieb Michael Scherer:
> > Le jeudi 15 novembre 2012 à 03:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit :
> >> iptables rules are a long-established cross-
> >> distribution interface
> > 
> > Not really. For example, ubuntu use ufw, mandriva used shorewall. Debian
> > offered several frontend, but IIRC, didn't use one by default
> 
> and they ALL using iptables/netfilter
> 
> so if you write a iptables.sh you get it run on ANY distribution
> and that was the point

Right. I hate to say it, but Harald is correct here: AFAIK, all those
and other firewall configuration mechanisms were ultimately just
UI/abstraction layers wrapped around iptables. They wrote iptables
rules. firewalld is very different.
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