Vijay Rajah wrote: > You can still use iptables with Centos7, if you want... (AFAIK both > firewalld & iptables use the same kernel functions) As a matter of interest, how does firewalld compare with shorewall? They look rather similar. I am running CentOS-7 on a home server, with shorewall. I was not aware until I read this thread that firewalld was installed, but I find now that it is running. I'm rather surprised there have been no conflicts with shorewall. Maybe one over-rules the other? (I notice it is installed but not running on my Fedora-20 laptop.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland