Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 09.07.2023 00:04, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
Andrei - yes I have been poking at this this and other possibly related problems for awhile now, trying to learn, looking at different symptoms not knowing if they are related or not, taking educated guesses on what I should address first, etc. So yes it has been a struggle working on multiple fronts and I think I have encountered your thoughts before, along the way. Can you show me how to use policies and how they could be applied towards the solution I am looking for. https://firewalld.org/2020/09/policy-objects-introduction
Thanks again Andrei for your help. Yes I have read this article and others as well about policy objects. To be frankly honest, I don't grok the difference between policies and forwarding/port forwarding rules. I will keep reading and searching for a better/more complete explanation.
In the current firewalld there are nothing but policies - all zone definitions are internally translated into policy definitions.
OK... I am not sure how this helps me and like I said, I am still confused about policies and their purpose.
Of course Leap 15.3 is using rather old firewalld so YMMV.
I plan to upgrade my one remaining Leap 15.3 system to 15.4 soon. There are some other hiccups I need to solve first before doing so, however. Marc...