firewall configuring

[Tim]

Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system
settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17?

In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and readily
apparent as the thing you went to, to adjust your firewall.  But there's
nothing, obvious as the way to adjust it, now.  You'd have to know about
the old tool, or manually write iptables rules.  But in this, modern
everything is done in the GUI, system, there's nothing showing.

I became particularly peeved about this, when CUPS didn't find any
printers (or print servers) on my LAN, when it should.  And the first
port of call, in the past, would be to open up the firewall and allow
IPP printing/serving options, as appropriate.  But there being no
apparent way to the newbie to do this.

Gnome developers may well think there's no need for users to fiddle with
their firewall, but when the printing doesn't work because the default
rules forbid it, not providing any configurator, nor even any clues,
smacks of incompetence.

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