Firewalld Basic Commands

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Firewalld Basic Commands
  • Install Firewalld
  • See the Status of Firewalld
  • Enable Firewalld
  • Stop Firewalld
  • Start Firewalld
  • Disable Firewalld
  • Mask Firewalld
  • Unmask Firewalld
  • Add a Service to Firewalld
  • Remove a Service to Firewalld
  • Remove the Diles of a Service to Firewalld
  • See if a Service is Available
  • Reload Firewalld
  • Display the Services and the Open Ports for the Public Zone
  • Display the Open Ports by Services and Port Numbers
  • Add a Port for tcp
  • Add a Port for udp
  • Add a Port for tcp and udp
• References

Introduction

We present a quick introduction to firewalld, a free and open-source firewall management tool for Linux operating systems. This guide can be useful for users of the TFGrid deploying on full and micro VMs as well as other types of deployment.

Firewalld Basic Commands

Install Firewalld

• apt install firewalld -y
  

See the Status of Firewalld

• firewall-cmd --state
  

Enable Firewalld

• systemctl enablefirewalld
  

Stop Firewalld

• systemctl stop firewalld
  

Start Firewalld

• systemctl start firewalld
  

Disable Firewalld

• systemctl disable firewalld
  

Mask Firewalld

• systemctl mask --now firewalld
  

Unmask Firewalld

• systemctl unmask --now firewalld
  

Add a Service to Firewalld

• Temporary

  • firewall-cmd --add-service=<service_name>
    

• Permanent

  • firewall-cmd --add-service=<service_name> --permanent
    

Remove a Service to Firewalld

• Temporary

  • firewall-cmd --remove-service=<service_name>
    

• Permanent

  • firewall-cmd --remove-service=<service_name> --permanent
    

Remove the Diles of a Service to Firewalld

• rm -f /etc/firewalld/services/<service_name>.xml*
  

See if a Service is Available

• firewall-cmd --info-service=<service_name>
  

Reload Firewalld

• firewall-cmd --reload
  

Display the Services and the Open Ports for the Public Zone

• firewall-cmd --list-all --zone=public
  

Display the Open Ports by Services and Port Numbers

• By services

  • firewall-cmd --list-services
    

• By port numbers

  • firewall-cmd --list-ports
    

Add a Port for tcp

• firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=<port>/tcp
  

Add a Port for udp

• firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=<port>/udp
  

Add a Port for tcp and udp

• firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=<port>
  

References

ufw man pages - https://firewalld.org/documentation/man-pages/firewalld.html