What Are Policy Sets?¶

Policy sets are collections of policies that serve as starting configuration for specific use cases, e.g. a home router. They provide an easy way to get started. Users may then fine tune the configuration for their environment. Every policy set has a dedicated man page to explain its use case.

All policy sets shipped by firewalld are administratively disabled by default. Using them is a matter of adding your interfaces to zones and removing the disable.

Enabling a Policy Set¶

Below is a complete example for using the gateway policy set. In this example: eth0 is the LAN interface, and eth1 is the uplink to the internet.

	      # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone internal eth0
	      # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone external eth1
	      # firewall-cmd --permanent --policy-set gateway --remove-disable
	      # firewall-cmd --reload


            

Enabling Multiple Policy Sets¶

Policy sets are guaranteed to interoperate. Multiple policy sets may be enabled simultaneously.

Existing Policy Sets¶

gateway