I believe I've found an explanation regarding the VM issue you mention:
http://www.atrixnet.com/red-hat-libvirt-kvm-iptables-what-to-do-when-your...
If I understand correctly, the issue is that temporary rules inserted into iptables by
other applications are lost when any of the following are called:
service iptables stop; service iptables start;
service iptables restart;
iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables;
This issue would not apply when inserting your own temporary rules by such as:
iptables -A
The issue would also not apply when making your temporary rules permanent via:
service iptables save
Is my understanding correct?
From: patrickrhinkley(a)outlook.com
To: firewalld-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: RE: what are the advantages of firewalld over iptables?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:19:12 -0400
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:07:11 -0400
From: mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org
To: firewalld-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: what are the advantages of firewalld over iptables?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:54:54AM -0400, Patrick Hinkley wrote:
> this is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find a
> very good comparison outlining the advantages of firewalld over
> iptables -- what are they?
There are two big ones:
- higher-level API programs can use
- keeping track of state
The classic example for the last one is that with firewalld, you can
restart iptables without breaking all of your virtual machines.
Do I understand correctly that the state issue (failure to maintain established
connections) is only relevant when restarting iptables (service iptables restart), not
when e.g. adding/deleting a rule (iptables -A / iptables -D) or restoring
(iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables)?
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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