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       --default-config
26           Path to firewalld default configuration. This usually defaults to
27           /usr/lib/firewalld.
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29       --debug[=level]
30           Set the debug level for firewalld to level. The range of the debug
31           level is 1 (lowest level) to 10 (highest level). The debug output
32           will be written to the firewalld log file /var/log/firewalld.
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34       --debug-gc
35           Print garbage collector leak information. The collector runs every
36           10 seconds and if there are leaks, it prints information about the
37           leaks.
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39       --nofork
40           Turn off daemon forking. Force firewalld to run as a foreground
41           process instead of as a daemon in the background.
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43       --nopid
44           Disable writing pid file. By default the program will write a pid
45           file. If the program is invoked with this option it will not check
46           for an existing server process.
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48       --system-config
49           Path to firewalld system (user) configuration. This usually
50           defaults to /etc/firewalld.
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CONCEPTS

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

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

154       Currently only SIGHUP is supported.
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156   SIGHUP
157       Reloads the complete firewall configuration. You can also use
158       firewall-cmd --reload. All runtime configuration settings will be
159       restored. Permanent configuration will change according to options
160       defined in the configuration files.
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SEE ALSO

163       firewall-applet(1), firewalld(1), firewall-cmd(1), firewall-config(1),
164       firewalld.conf(5), firewalld.direct(5), firewalld.dbus(5),
165       firewalld.icmptype(5), firewalld.lockdown-whitelist(5), firewall-
166       offline-cmd(1), firewalld.richlanguage(5), firewalld.service(5),
167       firewalld.zone(5), firewalld.zones(5), firewalld.policy(5),
168       firewalld.policies(5), firewalld.ipset(5), firewalld.helper(5)
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NOTES

171       firewalld home page:
172           http://firewalld.org
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174       More documentation with examples:
175           http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD
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AUTHORS

178       Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>
179           Developer
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181       Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com>
182           Developer
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184       Eric Garver <eric@garver.life>
185           Developer
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