F17: Firewall disable/stop

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/06/2012 01:46 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> I have 3 different F17, but only 1 fresh installation: I have installed
> system-config 1.2.29-7.FC17 on all machines, but when I start it on the fresh F-17
> I get an error stating:
> ERROR:FirewallD is active, please use firewall-config
>
> What does it mean?? 

It means "firewalld" is being used as opposed to iptables.

I forgot the link on fedoraproject that talks about firewalld.  But, I wouldn't spend
too much time on it since firewalld, I've heard, is being dropped as the default
firewall for F17 and being pushed back to F18.

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