1FIREWALLD(1)                       firewalld                      FIREWALLD(1)
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NAME

6       firewalld - Dynamic Firewall Manager
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SYNOPSIS

9       firewalld [OPTIONS...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for
13       network/firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections
14       or interfaces. It has support for IPv4, IPv6 firewall settings and for
15       ethernet bridges and has a separation of runtime and permanent
16       configuration options. It also supports an interface for services or
17       applications to add firewall rules directly.
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OPTIONS

20       These are the command line options of firewalld:
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22       -h, --help
23           Prints a short help text and exists.
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25       --debug[=level]
26           Set the debug level for firewalld to level. The range of the debug
27           level is 1 (lowest level) to 10 (highest level). The debug output
28           will be written to the firewalld log file /var/log/firewalld.
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30       --debug-gc
31           Print garbage collector leak information. The collector runs every
32           10 seconds and if there are leaks, it prints information about the
33           leaks.
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35       --nofork
36           Turn off daemon forking. Force firewalld to run as a foreground
37           process instead of as a daemon in the background.
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39       --nopid
40           Disable writing pid file. By default the program will write a pid
41           file. If the program is invoked with this option it will not check
42           for an existing server process.
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CONCEPTS

45       firewalld has a D-Bus interface for firewall configuration of services
46       and applications. It also has a command line client for the user.
47       Services or applications already using D-Bus can request changes to the
48       firewall with the D-Bus interface directly. For more information on the
49       firewalld D-Bus interface, please have a look at firewalld.dbus(5).
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51       firewalld provides support for zones, predefined services and ICMP
52       types and has a separation of runtime and permanent configuration
53       options. Permanent configuration is loaded from XML files in
54       /usr/lib/firewalld or /etc/firewalld (see the section called
55       “DIRECTORIES”).
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57       If NetworkManager is not in use and firewalld gets started after the
58       network is already up, the connections and manually created interfaces
59       are not bound to the zone specified in the ifcfg file. The interfaces
60       will automatically be handled by the default zone. firewalld will also
61       not get notified about network device renames. All this also applies to
62       interfaces that are not controlled by NetworkManager if
63       NM_CONTROLLED=no is set.
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65       You can add these interfaces to a zone with firewall-cmd [--permanent]
66       --zone=zone --add-interface=interface. If there is a
67       /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-interface file, firewalld tries to
68       change the ZONE=zone setting in this file.
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70       If firewalld gets reloaded, it will restore the interface bindings that
71       were in place before reloading to keep interface bindings stable in the
72       case of NetworkManager uncontrolled interfaces. This mechanism is not
73       possible in the case of a firewalld service restart.
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75       It is essential to keep the ZONE= setting in the ifcfg file consistent
76       to the binding in firewalld in the case of NetworkManager uncontrolled
77       interfaces.
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79   Zones
80       A network or firewall zone defines the trust level of the interface
81       used for a connection. There are several pre-defined zones provided by
82       firewalld. Zone configuration options and generic information about
83       zones are described in firewalld.zone(5)
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85   Services
86       A service can be a list of local ports, protocols and destinations and
87       additionally also a list of firewall helper modules automatically
88       loaded if a service is enabled. Service configuration options and
89       generic information about services are described in
90       firewalld.service(5). The use of predefined services makes it easier
91       for the user to enable and disable access to a service.
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93   ICMP types
94       The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is used to exchange
95       information and also error messages in the Internet Protocol (IP). ICMP
96       types can be used in firewalld to limit the exchange of these messages.
97       For more information, please have a look at firewalld.icmptype(5).
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99   Runtime configuration
100       Runtime configuration is the actual active configuration and is not
101       permanent. After reload/restart of the service or a system reboot,
102       runtime settings will be gone if they haven't been also in permanent
103       configuration.
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105   Permanent configuration
106       The permanent configuration is stored in config files and will be
107       loaded and become new runtime configuration with every machine boot or
108       service reload/restart.
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110   Direct interface
111       The direct interface is mainly used by services or applications to add
112       specific firewall rules. It requires basic knowledge of ip(6)tables
113       concepts (tables, chains, commands, parameters, targets).
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DIRECTORIES

116       firewalld supports two configuration directories:
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118   Default/Fallback configuration in /usr/lib/firewalld
119       This directory contains the default and fallback configuration provided
120       by firewalld for icmptypes, services and zones. The files provided with
121       the firewalld package should not get changed and the changes are gone
122       with an update of the firewalld package. Additional icmptypes, services
123       and zones can be provided with packages or by creating files.
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125   System configuration settings in /etc/firewalld
126       The system or user configuration stored here is either created by the
127       system administrator or by customization with the configuration
128       interface of firewalld or by hand. The files will overload the default
129       configuration files.
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131       To manually change settings of pre-defined icmptypes, zones or
132       services, copy the file from the default configuration directory to the
133       corresponding directory in the system configuration directory and
134       change it accordingly.
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136       For more information on icmptypes, please have a look at the
137       firewalld.icmptype(5) man page, for services at firewalld.service(5)
138       and for zones at firewalld.zone(5).
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SIGNALS

141       Currently only SIGHUP is supported.
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143   SIGHUP
144       Reloads the complete firewall configuration. You can also use
145       firewall-cmd --reload. All runtime configuration settings will be
146       restored. Permanent configuration will change according to options
147       defined in the configuration files.
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SEE ALSO

150       firewall-applet(1), firewalld(1), firewall-cmd(1), firewall-config(1),
151       firewalld.conf(5), firewalld.direct(5), firewalld.dbus(5),
152       firewalld.icmptype(5), firewalld.lockdown-whitelist(5), firewall-
153       offline-cmd(1), firewalld.richlanguage(5), firewalld.service(5),
154       firewalld.zone(5), firewalld.zones(5), firewalld.ipset(5),
155       firewalld.helper(5)
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NOTES

158       firewalld home page:
159           http://firewalld.org
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161       More documentation with examples:
162           http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD
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AUTHORS

165       Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>
166           Developer
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168       Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com>
169           Developer
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