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To Enable Forwarding When Using firewalld

firewalld is an iptables controller that defines rules for persistent network traffic. If you are using firewalld with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3 operating system, you must enable forwarding on the docker0 device. You must also forward any packets being sent from or to the 10.0.0.0/8 subnet.

To Determine if You Are Using firewalld

To determine if your system is using firewall run the following command:

systemctl status firewalld.service

If firewalld is installed, this command returns the following:

$ sudo systemctl status firewalld.service
* firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:firewalld(1)

If firewalld is not installed, this command returns an error message.

To Enable Forwarding

To enable forwarding on the docker0 device, run the following commands:

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter FORWARD 1 -o docker0 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "docker subnet"

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter FORWARD 1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "docker subnet"

To enable forwarding on the 10.0.0.0/8 subnet, run the following commands:

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "docker subnet"

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 1 -d 10.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "docker subnet"