From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Hansa <mythtv@logic-q.nl>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the current firewall model static?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:11:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324375868.21032.1.camel@steve-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000301ccbef9$4a8dc180$dfa94480$@nl>
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:25 +0100, Hansa wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Fedora is running a project called firewalld. Firewalld manages the firewall
> dynamically via D-BUS
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/#Why_A_Firewall_Daemon). They say:
> "the current firewall model is static and **every** change requires a
> complete firewall restart. This includes also to unload the firewall
> netfilter kernel modules and to load the modules that are needed for the new
> configuration."
>
> I would be very surprised if their claim is true. Because that would break
> statefull connections when changing the rules. I'm not familiar with the
> code so I can't comment on that. Hence my question. Is the current firewall
> model static?
I think that what they mean is that the current *Fedora* firewall model
is static. It looks like firewalld still uses iptables, but is slightly
more intelligent as to how it processes changes to rules and so on.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-20 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-20 9:25 Is the current firewall model static? Hansa
2011-12-20 10:11 ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2011-12-21 9:18 ` Hansa
2011-12-21 9:27 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-12-21 10:16 ` Hansa
2011-12-21 10:22 ` Andrew Beverley
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