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I cannot find docs on how to enable multicast for firewalld which is the default firewall in RHEL / CentOS 7. Can some enlighten me? FYI: I know how to do it using iptables.

Neon
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At first I tried this command:

firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter IN_public_allow 1 -d 224.0.0.18 -j ACCEPT

but it seems that CentOS7 cannot reload direct rules after reboot. 

[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]# firewall-cmd --direct --get-all-rules
[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]# firewall-cmd --direct --get-all-rules --permanent
ipv4 filter IN_public_allow 1 -d 224.0.0.18 -j ACCEPT
[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]# 
[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]# cat direct.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<direct>
  <rule priority="1" table="filter" ipv="ipv4" chain="IN_public_allow">-d 224.0.0.18 -j ACCEPT</rule>
</direct>
[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]# pwd
/etc/firewalld
[root@test01-galera02 firewalld]#

Second, I successfully used this command. firewalld runs fine now on my galera cluster with keepalived on it.

 firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" destination address="224.0.0.18" protocol value="ip" accept' --permanent
 firewall-cmd --reload
Sathyajith Bhat
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StefanKaerst
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Variant for IPv4 multicast and Firewalld using rich-rules:

  • Define rules: 
    ALLOW_MULTICAST_RICH_RULE="
  rule family=ipv4
  destination address=224.0.0.0/4
  protocol value=udp
  accept"
ALLOW_IGMP_RICH_RULE="
  rule family=ipv4
  protocol value=igmp
  accept"
  • Apply the rules at runtime: 
    firewall-cmd --add-rich-rule="$ALLOW_MULTICAST_RICH_RULE"
firewall-cmd --add-rich-rule="$ALLOW_IGMP_RICH_RULE"
  • Add rules permanently (i.e. they will apply after reboot): 
    firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule="$ALLOW_MULTICAST_RICH_RULE"
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule="$ALLOW_IGMP_RICH_RULE"

In addition to CentOS 7, this also works in RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/AlmaLinux 8, in which direct rules are not supported by default:

Note that firewalld with nftables backend does not support passing custom nftables rules to firewalld, using the --direct option.

SergA
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IPv6

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv6 filter PREROUTING 0 -t raw -m rpfilter --invert -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv6 filter INPUT 0 -d ff00::/8 -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv6 filter OUTPUT 0 -d ff00::/8 -j ACCEPT

IPv4

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -m udp -p udp -m pkttype --pkt-type multicast -j ACCEPT
g2mk
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ccociug
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You open this file: /etc/firewalld/direct.xml.
Write:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<direct>
<rule priority="0" table="filter" ipv="ipv4" chain="OUTPUT">' --out-interface' [ens33] --destination 224.0.0.18 --protocol vrrp -j ACCEPT</rule>
<rule priority="1" table="filter" ipv="ipv4" chain="IN_public_allow">-d 224.0.0.18 -j ACCEPT</rule>
</direct>

Replace [ens33] with your server's port.
Then: firewall-cmd --reload.

Glorfindel
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son tran
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you open file: /etc/firewalld/direct.xml write:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<direct>
<rule priority="1" table="filter" ipv="ipv4" chain="IN_public_allow">-d 
224.0.0.18 -j ACCEPT</rule>
</direct>

replace ens33 to your server's port then: firewall-cmd --reload

son tran
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