F18 : from iptables to firewalld

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Jan 31 10:36:02 UTC 2013



Am 31.01.2013 11:29, schrieb Ed Greshko:
> 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

why reboot?
this is not a kernel update nor windows
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systemctl stop iptables.service ip6tables.service; systemctl start firewalld.service

does the same and is a simple one liner
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the big difference is as example on a remote-machine you
have good chances that your existing ssh-connection survives
this while if something at reboot goes wrong you are locked out

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