F18 : from iptables to firewalld

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/31/2013 03:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:

Should not have done this from memory.....  See below for updated....

> On 01/31/2013 03:40 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>> I updated my laptop that is running the old firewall. How do I switch to firewalld??? and how do I enable it?? any howto document?? 
> 1.  systemctl disable (or mask) iptables.service
> 2.  systemctl enable firewalld.service
> 3.  systemctl start firewalld.service
>
> Make sure you have firewall-config installed for ease of configuration.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD
>
> Has, the "documentation".
>
>
0.   yum install firewalld firewall-config
1.   systemctl disable (or mask) iptables.service
1a. systemctl disable (or mask) ip6tables.service
2.   systemctl status firewalld.service
      should show enabled
3.   reboot

Just did that again on a VM I just updated.....


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