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firewalld
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| firewalld | GPLv2-licensed software · Linux firewall management | Free |
As firewalld.org lists them, read 10 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from firewalld's own pages
- Free plan
- Yes · firewalld.org, 22 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- The project lists NetworkManager, libvirt, podman, Docker using the iptables backend, fail2ban, and Puppet among supported integrations. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- firewalld provides a D-Bus API, command-line tools for online and offline configuration, a GTK3 graphical configuration tool, and a Qt5 applet. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- License
- The project states that firewalld is licensed under GPLv2. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Linux distributions
- The project lists firewalld as the default firewall management tool in RHEL 7 and newer, CentOS 7 and newer, Fedora 18 and newer, SUSE 15 and newer, and openSUSE 15 and newer. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- NAT and policies
- Policies can filter input, forwarded, and output traffic and perform network address translation. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- NetworkManager dependency
- firewalld does not depend on NetworkManager, but without it the daemon may not learn about device renames or bind already active connections and manually created interfaces to zones at startup. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Network support
- It supports IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet bridges, and IPSet firewall settings. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advanced · firewalld.org, 22 Sept 2026
- Persistent configuration
- Runtime and permanent configurations are separate, and runtime-only changes do not persist after a reload or restart. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- linux · firewalld.org, 22 Sept 2026
- Purpose
- firewalld is a dynamically managed, stateful, zone-based firewall that organizes network traffic by trust level. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- both · firewalld.org, 22 Sept 2026
- Rule management
- Features include rich rules, timed rules, port forwarding, masquerading, ICMP filtering, and logging of denied packets. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Runtime changes
- Runtime firewall changes take effect without restarting the service or daemon. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Security control
- Lockdown mode can whitelist applications that are allowed to modify the firewall. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
- Support
- The firewalld-users mailing list is described as a place to get help from upstream developers and community members, and GitHub is the preferred place to file issues. · firewalld.org, 10 Oct 2026
Where firewalld stands on Freedom251
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