Firewalld question -

[Thomas Woerner]

On 02/14/2013 09:52 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 14/02/13 09:55, Thomas Woerner wrote:
>>> However now after restarting Firewalld Tkremind accesses the server and
>>> works normally. Something appears to have changed as a result of
>>> stopping and starting firewalld? Can I expect it to continue to work
>>> after the next reboot?
>>>
>> Do you know if tkremind is using another way to communicate to the
>> server as libreoffice or Notecase?
>> Thomas
>
> It has continued to work after a number of reboots so the problem is
> fixed. But why? "Is it using another way?" I don't know exactly how to
> answer that but I have done nothing differently in configuring those
> applications. Servers and clients are tied together through an Ethernet
> switch, essentially direct wire, I've removed the wifi loop and it is
> all cat-5 or whatever cable. The wifi did not affect the problem, I've
> disconnected that to reduce excessive usage by some Apple Mac devices
> and their iCloud traffic which was killing my ISP usage allotment!
>
> There must be a difference, but I can't even guess what it is.
>
There should be no difference. The only thing is that you have 
configured firewall settings in the persistent configuration view. These 
are not effective immediately (only after service restart or reboot). To 
configure runtime changes, use the runtime configuration view.

> Bob
>
Thomas