firewalld
The facts below are what the maker publishes about firewalld, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From firewalld's own pricing page, checked 10 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| firewalld | Free | GPLv2-licensed software · Linux firewall management |
The facts
Each one read from firewalld's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
What it does
- Integrations
- The project lists NetworkManager, libvirt, podman, Docker using the iptables backend, fail2ban, and Puppet among supported integrations.checked 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.checked 10 Oct 2026
- License
- The project states that firewalld is licensed under GPLv2.checked 10 Oct 2026
- NAT and policies
- Policies can filter input, forwarded, and output traffic and perform network address translation.checked 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.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Network support
- It supports IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet bridges, and IPSet firewall settings.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advancedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Persistent configuration
- Runtime and permanent configurations are separate, and runtime-only changes do not persist after a reload or restart.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- firewalld is a dynamically managed, stateful, zone-based firewall that organizes network traffic by trust level.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- bothchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Rule management
- Features include rich rules, timed rules, port forwarding, masquerading, ICMP filtering, and logging of denied packets.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Runtime changes
- Runtime firewall changes take effect without restarting the service or daemon.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Security control
- Lockdown mode can whitelist applications that are allowed to modify the firewall.checked 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.checked 10 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- 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.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- linuxchecked 22 Sep 2026
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