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 exits.
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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 specified by --log-file.
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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       --log-target
40           Define the output target to which log messages are written. In
41           mixed mode, Firewalld writes info-level log messages to syslog.
42           Debug messages are written to a file (see the --log-file
43           parameter). Info messages also go to stdout and stderr. The syslog,
44           file or console modes write all messages to the one configured
45           target only.
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47       --log-file
48           Define the file where debug messages are written to. The default
49           file is /var/log/firewalld.
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51       --nofork
52           Turn off daemon forking. Force firewalld to run as a foreground
53           process instead of as a daemon in the background.
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55       --nopid
56           Disable writing pid file. By default the program will write a pid
57           file. If the program is invoked with this option it will not check
58           for an existing server process.
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60       --system-config
61           Path to firewalld system (user) configuration. This usually
62           defaults to /etc/firewalld.
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CONCEPTS

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

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

166       Currently only SIGHUP is supported.
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168   SIGHUP
169       Reloads the complete firewall configuration. You can also use
170       firewall-cmd --reload. All runtime configuration settings will be
171       restored. Permanent configuration will change according to options
172       defined in the configuration files.
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SEE ALSO

175       firewall-applet(1), firewalld(1), firewall-cmd(1), firewall-config(1),
176       firewalld.conf(5), firewalld.direct(5), firewalld.dbus(5),
177       firewalld.icmptype(5), firewalld.lockdown-whitelist(5), firewall-
178       offline-cmd(1), firewalld.richlanguage(5), firewalld.service(5),
179       firewalld.zone(5), firewalld.zones(5), firewalld.policy(5),
180       firewalld.policies(5), firewalld.ipset(5), firewalld.helper(5)
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NOTES

183       firewalld home page:
184           http://firewalld.org
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186       More documentation with examples:
187           http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD
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AUTHORS

190       Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>
191           Developer
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193       Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com>
194           Developer
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196       Eric Garver <eric@garver.life>
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