This is more directed at SLES servers so might be wrong place to post it, but im sure most of you have used both SLES and openSUSE so ill give it a go.
As somebody who uses openSUSE on the desktop and uses SLES servers. Does anybody know exactly why SLES uses SuSEFirewall. It just seems to get in the way and complicate things more than normal IP tables.
I regularly just disable it and configure iptables on its own.
Anyone else feel this way or is it just me? What are the reasons for its implementation?
On 05/27/2014 06:06 AM, williamfleming wrote:
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> This is more directed at SLES servers so might be wrong place to post
> it, but im sure most of you have used both SLES and openSUSE so ill give
> it a go.
Questions on SLES probably better belong in the SUSE (vs. openSUSE) forum
found at https://forums.suse.com/ with the same login you used here.
Also, based on others’ reports in here most people use use openSUSE are
not necessarily uses of SLES or SLED.
> As somebody who uses openSUSE on the desktop and uses SLES servers. Does
> anybody know exactly why SLES uses SuSEFirewall. It just seems to get in
> the way and complicate things more than normal IP tables.
I’ve seldom had issues. Explaining what you are seeing, particularly in
the SLES forums, would be interesting. I leave the default firewall
enabled (why not? I have lot of reasons “why to” if interested… over
there for SLE discussions) and since the firewall blocks only unsolicited
incoming data it shouldn’t get in the way of most things.
> I regularly just disable it and configure iptables on its own.
Some do; tis your prerogative.
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Good luck.
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