How to cleanly stop and restart firewalld?

Martin Cigorraga martincigorraga at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 20:09:54 UTC 2015


Quite interesting to know Matthew, thanks.
Btw, F21 and F22 releases - alongside their new distribution scheme - have
proven to be phenomenal so far, kudos!
-Martin

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:36 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:12:39AM -0700, David Highley wrote:
> > Generally we are needing to run a test to see if we have a firewall
> > issue so we want to stop for the test and then start the firewall up
> > again.
>
> Currently, firewalld has a "panic mode" which, as you might expect,
> drops everything. It seems reasonable for it to also have a "open for
> testing" mode which would temporarily let everything through. The
> advantage over stopping and restarting is that any
> dynamically-generated rules could persist (for example, you wouldn't
> break networking in your VMs).
>
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