On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 13:39 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I have a new f18 install. I see it has > rpm -q firewall-config > firewall-config-0.2.12-2.fc18.noarch > > But my older system that I updated from f17 does not have this, it > is using the older firewall config (which I manually configured). > > Should I bother to install firewall-config on my older system? Does > it offer some advantage? >
The old firewall configuration tool would reload the entire set of kernel rules when you made a change. This could cause side-effects such as dropping open connections. The new firewalld system avoids this where possible. In fact I'm not even sure of the effect of mixing the two; if you're using firewalld then use firewall-config to configure it. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
