A firewall is a way to protect machines from any unwanted traffic from outside. It enables users to control incoming network traffic on host machines by defining a set of firewall rules. These rules are used to sort the incoming traffic and either block it or allow through. Show
Services use one or more ports or addresses for network communication. Firewalls filter communication based on ports. To allow network traffic for a service, its ports must be open. Note that
46.1. Getting started with firewalld This section provides information about 46.1.1. When to use firewalld, nftables, or iptablesThe following is a brief overview in which scenario you should use one of the following utilities:
To prevent the different firewall services from influencing each other, run only one of them on a RHEL host, and disable the other services. 46.1.2. Zones
The latter three can only edit the appropriate The predefined zones are stored in the
One of these zones is set as the default zone. When interface connections are added to The network zone names should be self-explanatory and to allow users to quickly make a reasonable decision. To avoid any security problems, review the default zone configuration and disable any unnecessary services according to your needs and risk assessments. Additional resources
46.1.3. Predefined servicesA service can be a list of local ports, protocols, source ports, and destinations, as well as a list of firewall helper modules automatically loaded if a service is enabled. Using services saves users time because they can achieve several tasks, such as opening ports, defining protocols, enabling packet forwarding and more, in a single step, rather than setting up everything one after another. Service configuration options and generic file information are described in the Services can be added and removed using the graphical Alternatively, you can edit the XML files in the
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46.1.4. Starting firewalldProcedure
46.1.5. Stopping firewalldProcedure
46.1.6. Verifying the permanent firewalld configuration
In certain situations, for example after manually editing Prerequisites
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46.2. Viewing the current status and settings of firewalld This section covers information about viewing current status, allowed services, and current settings
of 46.2.1. Viewing the current status of firewalld The firewall service, Procedure
46.2.2. Viewing allowed services using GUI To view the list of services using the graphical firewall-config tool, press the Super key to enter the Activities Overview, type You can start the graphical firewall configuration tool using the command-line. Prerequisites
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The 46.2.3. Viewing firewalld settings using CLI With the CLI client, it is possible to get different views of the current firewall settings. The
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Listing the settings for a certain subpart using the CLI tool can sometimes be difficult to interpret. For example, you
allow the 46.3. Controlling network traffic using firewalld This section covers information about controlling network traffic using 46.3.1. Disabling all traffic in case of emergency using CLIIn an emergency situation, such as a system attack, it is possible to disable all network traffic and cut off the attacker. Procedure
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46.3.2. Controlling traffic with predefined services using CLI The most straightforward method to control traffic is to add a predefined service to Procedure
46.3.3. Controlling traffic with predefined services using GUIThis procedure describes how to control the network traffic with predefined services using graphical user interface. Prerequisites
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The It is not possible to alter service settings in the 46.3.4. Adding new services Services can be added and removed using the graphical firewall-config tool, Service names must be alphanumeric and can, additionally, include only Procedure To add a new service in a terminal, use
46.3.5. Opening ports using GUITo permit traffic through the firewall to a certain port, you can open the port in the GUI. Prerequisites
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46.3.6. Controlling traffic with protocols using GUITo permit traffic through the firewall using a certain protocol, you can use the GUI. Prerequisites
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46.3.7. Opening source ports using GUITo permit traffic through the firewall from a certain port, you can use the GUI. Prerequisites
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46.4. Controlling ports using CLIPorts are logical devices that enable an operating system to receive and distinguish network traffic and forward it accordingly to system services. These are usually represented by a daemon that listens on the port, that is it waits for any traffic coming to this port. Normally, system services listen on standard ports that are reserved for them. The 46.4.1. Opening a portThrough open ports, the system is accessible from the outside, which represents a security risk. Generally, keep ports closed and only open them if they are required for certain services. Procedure To get a list of open ports in the current zone:
46.4.2. Closing a port When an open port is no longer needed, close that port in Procedure To close a port, remove it from the list of allowed ports:
46.5. Working with firewalld zonesZones represent a concept to manage incoming traffic more transparently. The zones are connected to networking interfaces or assigned a range of source addresses. You manage firewall rules for each zone independently, which enables you to define complex firewall settings and apply them to the traffic. 46.5.1. Listing zonesThis procedure describes how to list zones using the command line. Procedure
46.5.2. Modifying firewalld settings for a certain zoneThe Controlling traffic with predefined services using cli and Controlling ports using cli explain how to add services or modify ports in the scope of the current working zone. Sometimes, it is required to set up rules in a different zone.
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46.5.3. Changing the default zone System administrators assign a zone to a networking interface in its configuration files. If an interface is not assigned
to a specific zone, it is assigned to the default zone. After each restart of the Procedure To set up the default zone:
46.5.4. Assigning a network interface to a zoneIt is possible to define different sets of rules for different zones and then change the settings quickly by changing the zone for the interface that is being used. With multiple interfaces, a specific zone can be set for each of them to distinguish traffic that is coming through them. Procedure To assign the zone to a specific interface:
46.5.5. Assigning a zone to a connection using nmcli This procedure describes how to add a Procedure
46.5.6. Manually assigning a zone to a network connection in an ifcfg fileWhen the connection is managed by NetworkManager, it must be aware of a zone that it uses. For every network connection, a zone can be specified, which provides the flexibility of various firewall settings according to the location of the computer with portable devices. Thus, zones and settings can be specified for different locations, such as company or home. Procedure
46.5.7. Creating a new zone To use custom zones, create a new zone and use it just like a predefined zone. New zones require the Procedure
46.5.8. Zone configuration filesZones can also be created using a zone configuration file. This approach can be helpful when you need to create a new zone, but want to reuse the settings from a different zone and only alter them a little.
A The following example shows a configuration that allows one service
( <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <zone> <short>My Zone</short> <description>Here you can describe the characteristic features of the zone.</description> <service name="ssh"/> <port protocol="udp" port="1025-65535"/> <port protocol="tcp" port="1025-65535"/> </zone> To change settings for that zone, add or remove sections to add ports, forward ports, services, and so on. Additional resources
46.5.9. Using zone targets to set default behavior for incoming trafficFor every zone, you can set a default behavior that handles incoming traffic that is not further specified. Such behavior is defined by setting the target of the zone. There are four options:
Procedure To set a target for a zone:
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46.6. Using zones to manage incoming traffic depending on a sourceYou can use zones to manage incoming traffic based on its source. That enables you to sort incoming traffic and route it through different zones to allow or disallow services that can be reached by that traffic. If you add a source to a zone, the zone becomes active and any incoming traffic from that source will be directed through it. You can specify different settings for each zone, which is applied to the traffic from the given sources accordingly. You can use more zones even if you only have one network interface. 46.6.1. Adding a sourceTo route incoming traffic into a specific zone, add the source to that zone. The source can be an IP address or an IP mask in the classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) notation. In case you add multiple zones with an overlapping network range, they are ordered alphanumerically by zone name and only the first one is considered.
The following procedure allows all incoming traffic from 192.168.2.15 in the Procedure
46.6.2. Removing a sourceRemoving a source from the zone cuts off the traffic coming from it. Procedure
46.6.3. Adding a source port To enable sorting the traffic based on a port of origin, specify a source port using the Procedure
46.6.4. Removing a source portBy removing a source port you disable sorting the traffic based on a port of origin. Procedure
46.6.5. Using zones and sources to allow a service for only a specific domain To allow traffic from a specific network to use a service on a machine, use zones and source. The following procedure allows only HTTP traffic from the When you configure this
scenario, use a zone that has the Procedure
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46.7. Filtering forwarded traffic between zonesWith a policy object, users can group different identities that require similar permissions in the policy. You can apply policies depending on the direction of the traffic. The policy objects feature provides forward and output filtering in firewalld. The following describes the usage of firewalld to filter traffic between different zones to allow access to locally hosted VMs to connect the host. 46.7.1. The relationship between policy objects and zonesPolicy objects allow the user to attach firewalld’s primitives’ such as services, ports, and rich rules to the policy. You can apply the policy objects to traffic that passes between zones in a stateful and unidirectional manner. # firewall-cmd --permanent --new-policy myOutputPolicy # firewall-cmd --permanent --policy myOutputPolicy --add-ingress-zone HOST # firewall-cmd --permanent --policy myOutputPolicy --add-egress-zone ANY
46.7.2. Using priorities to sort policiesMultiple policies can apply to the same set of traffic, therefore, priorities should be used to create an order of precedence for the policies that may be applied. To set a priority to sort the policies: # firewall-cmd --permanent --policy mypolicy --set-priority -500 In the above example -500 is a lower priority value but has higher precedence. Thus, -500 will execute before -100. Higher priority values have precedence over lower values. The following rules apply to policy priorities:
46.7.3. Using policy objects to filter traffic between locally hosted Containers and a network physically connected to the hostThe policy objects feature allows users to filter their container and virtual machine traffic. Procedure
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46.7.4. Setting the default target of policy objectsYou can specify --set-target options for policies. The following targets are available:
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46.8. Configuring NAT using firewalld With
46.8.1. NAT typesThese are the different network address translation (NAT) types: Masquerading and source NAT (SNAT) Use one of these NAT types to change the source IP address of packets. For example, Internet Service Providers do not route private IP ranges, such as Masquerading and SNAT are very similar to one another. The differences are:
46.8.2. Configuring IP address masqueradingThe following procedure describes how to enable IP masquerading on your system. IP masquerading hides individual machines behind a gateway when accessing the Internet. Procedure
46.9. Using DNAT to forward HTTPS traffic to a different hostIf your web server runs in a DMZ with private IP addresses, you can configure destination network address translation (DNAT) to enable clients on the internet to connect to this web server. In this case, the host name of the web server resolves to the public IP address of the router. When a client establishes a connection to a defined port on the router, the router forwards the packets to the internal web server. Prerequisites
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46.10. Managing ICMP requests The Unfortunately, it is possible to use the 46.10.1. Listing and blocking ICMP requestsListing The
Blocking or unblocking When your server
blocks
Blocking Normally, if you block
Now, all traffic, including To block and drop certain
The block inversion inverts the setting of the To revert the block inversion to a fully permissive setting:
46.10.2. Configuring the ICMP filter using GUI
46.11. Setting and controlling IP sets using firewalld To see the list
of IP set types supported by ~]# firewall-cmd --get-ipset-types hash:ip hash:ip,mark hash:ip,port hash:ip,port,ip hash:ip,port,net hash:mac hash:net hash:net,iface hash:net,net hash:net,port hash:net,port,net 46.11.1. Configuring IP set options using CLI IP sets can be used in
Only the creation and removal of IP sets is limited to the permanent environment, all other IP set options can be used also in the runtime environment without the Red Hat does not recommend using IP sets that are not managed through 46.12. Prioritizing rich rules By default, rich rules are organized based on their rule action. For example, 46.12.1. How the priority parameter organizes rules into different chains You can set the The
Inside these sub-chains, 46.12.2. Setting the priority of a rich rule The procedure describes
an example of how to create a rich rule that uses the Procedure
46.13. Configuring firewall lockdown Local applications or services are able to change the firewall configuration if they are running as 46.13.1. Configuring lockdown using CLIThis procedure describes how to enable or disable lockdown using the command line.
46.13.2. Configuring lockdown allowlist options using CLIThe lockdown allowlist can contain commands, security contexts, users and user IDs. If a command entry on the allowlist ends with an asterisk "*", then all command lines starting with that command will match. If the "*" is not there then the absolute command including arguments must match.
46.13.3. Configuring lockdown allowlist options using configuration files The default allowlist configuration file contains the + The allowlist configuration files are stored in the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <whitelist> <selinux context="system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0"/> <selinux context="system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023"/> <user id="0"/> </whitelist> Following is an
example allowlist configuration file enabling all commands for the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <whitelist> <command name="/usr/libexec/platform-python -s /bin/firewall-cmd*"/> <selinux context="system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0"/> <user id="815"/> <user name="user"/> </whitelist> This example shows both
In that example, only the In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all utilities are
placed in the The 46.14. Enabling traffic forwarding between different interfaces or sources within a firewalld zone Intra-zone forwarding is a 46.14.1. The difference between intra-zone forwarding and zones with the default target set to ACCEPT When intra-zone forwarding is enabled, the traffic within a single Note that, if you enable intra-zone forwarding in the default zone of The
As for other default target values, forwarded traffic is dropped by default, which applies to all standard zones except the trusted zone. 46.14.2. Using intra-zone forwarding to forward traffic between an Ethernet and Wi-Fi network You can use intra-zone forwarding to forward traffic between interfaces and sources within the same Procedure
Verification The following verification steps require that the
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46.15. Configuring firewalld using System Roles You can use the
After you run the 46.15.1. Introduction to the firewall RHEL System RoleRHEL System Roles is a set of contents for the Ansible automation utility. This content together with the Ansible automation utility provides a consistent configuration interface to remotely manage multiple systems. The To apply the You can use an inventory file to define a set of systems that you want Ansible to configure. With the
46.15.2. Resetting the firewalld settings using the firewall RHEL System Role With the Run this procedure on Ansible control node. Prerequisites
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If you do not specify the Verification
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46.15.3. Forwarding incoming traffic from one local port to a different local port With the Perform this procedure on the Ansible control node. Prerequisites
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46.15.4. Configuring ports using System Roles You can use the RHEL Perform this procedure on the Ansible control node. Prerequisites
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46.15.5. Configuring a DMZ firewalld zone by using the firewalld RHEL System Role As a system administrator, you can use the Perform this procedure on the Ansible control node. Prerequisites
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