Fedora-21 firewall advice?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 17 January 2015 11:14:33 Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> > I assumed firewalld was one of the facilities made feasible by systemd?
> > If it has nothing to do with systemd, what exactly is its advantage?

> I am not how what that question means.

My meaning was: if firewalld is associated to systemd
then sooner or later it will probably become the standard firewall
in all distributions, so I might as well get used to it.

But if it is a straightforward choice between two firewalls,
I may as well stick with the one I know.

> The firewall daemon on the other hand manages the firewall dynamically and
> applies changes without restarting the whole firewall. Therefore there is
> no need to reload all firewall kernel modules. "

Well, I change the firewall setting so seldom
that this is hardly worth taking into account -
perhaps 1 minute per year, compared with hours digesting firewalld.

I felt much the same about systemd at the start,
when it was touted as a way of speeding up booting.
But I've changed my mind to some extent,
as I've had no problems with systemd in Fedora and CentOS,
and I'm quite impressed with Poettinger's arguments.

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Timothy Murphy  
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin