Firewalld - list tables?

staticsafe me at staticsafe.ca
Fri May 17 19:31:53 UTC 2013


On 5/17/2013 7:26, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been looking at the new Fedora firewall 'firewalld' and the
> 'firewall-cmd' command. I'm currently running F17 on a PC with an F18
> virtual machine, and have been trying to understand firewalld prior to
> upgrading to Fedora 19.
> 
> The PC has a modified iptables. So I have been trying to see how to
> incorporate the changes into the new firewalld. I suspect I will need to
> use the 'firewall-cmd --direct' option to add the iptables rules (as I
> see no other way of specifying on the rules source/destination addresses
> using 'firewall-cmd').
> 
> However, 'firewall-cmd' offers both the '--get-chains' and '--get-rules'
> options, but these both require specifying which table is to be used.
> How do I know what the tables are? There is no '--get-tables' option.
> I can run 'cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names' and this lists the standard
> iptables tables (nat ,mangle, filter). But if I use these names with
> 'firweall-cmd' all I get is a blank line displayed. E.g.
> 
>   firewall-cmd --direct --get-chains ipv4 nat
> 
> The same occurs with all the table names.
> 
> So, my question is this, is 'firewall-cmd' working correctly and simply
> stating that none of the tables have any chains (and so no rules)?
> Secondly, how do I find out what tables are defined for firewalld?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
> 

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