Yast firewall module missing

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I had to upgrade from Leap to Tumbleweed so I could install the latest version of Docker. When I try to use yast to open up the firewall I get an error popup saying that

** YaST currently does not have a module for configuring firewall. **

Looking at software modules, I do see there is yast firewall module installed, so not sure why I’m getting this error.

It recommends that I used firewall-config or firewall-cmd. This is a server and firewall-config is graphical. I can’t find any online documentation for firewall-cmd. Since -h lists almost two screen fulls of options, I don’t want to slog through the man pages on a non-graphical interface.

This is a a throwaway test box so I just might disable or remove the firewall but that may not be the case for my next build.

This is the i586 build

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The reason is as the message says. YaST currently does not have a module for configuring the firewall.

Tumbleweed switched to using firewalld instead of SuSEfirewall2, and a new YaST module to configure that hasn’t been written yet.

I cannot really help you with firewall-cmd.
But there were threads about this already.
See e.g. can anyone provide a clear overview of the move to firewalld? - Install/Boot/Login - openSUSE Forums

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PS, this should help too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firewalld?rd=FirewallD

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It’s actually the opposite, Yast now edits firewalld, but TW hasn’t switched to using it.

See Firewall will not configure - Network/Internet - openSUSE Forums

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Nonsense.
YaST does not have a firewall module, period.
It just runs firewall-config currently (which only works in a graphical session, and not in text mode).

And Tumbleweed does use firewalld by default since some weeks.
But existing installations are not switched automatically when installing updates.

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Sorry for double post, not sure what happened.