[CentOS] Stupid C7 firewall question

Joel Freeman

joel at joelazot.xyz
Thu Oct 25 02:06:28 UTC 2018


On a similar note, Is there any reason to use Firewalld over IPTables?

I'm incredibly new to Linux administration, and would like to your guys'
opinions on it.

Many thanks,
Joel.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 12:23, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> On 10/23/18 14:45, Phil Perry wrote:
> > On 23/10/18 19:05, mark wrote:
> >> Been looking, and haven't found the answer: in c7, is there a
> firewall-cmd
> >> command, or a systemctl cmd, to check whether ip6tables firewall is
> >> running
> >
> > Yes, the same as for any other service:
> >
> > systemctl status ip6tables.service
> >
> Um, no. I've discovered that on our boxen we have ip6tables running - I
> can do
> ip6tables-save and see them, but ip6tables.service, which comes, I find,
> as
> part of iptables-services, is *not* installed.
>
> Working around it.
>
>         mark
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