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. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
