How to use IPTables Instead of firewalld for Fedora 30-31-32

Verified and Tested 03/10/21

Introduction

As of Fedora 18, the iptables service has been replaced by firewalld. For those that prefer managing static firewall rules with iptables, follow these steps to revert back to iptables.

Using IPTables instead of firewalld

Disable firewalld and stop the service with the following commands:

systemctl disable firewalld

systemctl stop firewalld

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Now install the iptables-services package:

dnf install iptables-services -y

Enable iptables and start the service:

touch /etc/sysconfig/iptables

systemctl start iptables

systemctl enable iptables

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Check to make sure iptables is now running:

systemctl status iptables

Your output should look like this:

You’re finished! Now start adding your rules to the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.

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