# Home firewall/router no internet access using firewalld networkmanager

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [March 27, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/home-firewall-router-no-internet-access-using-firewalld-networkmanager/20317 "2026-03-27T01:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/home-firewall-router-no-internet-access-using-firewalld-networkmanager/20317/13 "2026-03-27T08:01:57Z")

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With firewalld, you can also configure it like I did in this post and it will do everything correctly also

> [@Firewalld/NetworkManager Internet Routing Not working in Rocky Linux 9.x](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/firewalld-networkmanager-internet-routing-not-working-in-rocky-linux-9-x/7280/13):
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> As an aside, I just did it on Rocky 9 and it works: firewall-cmd --zone=external --add-interface=enp2s0 --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=internal --add-interface=enp1s0 --permanent firewall-cmd --set-default-zone=external --permanent firewall-cmd --reload firewall-cmd --get-default-zone firewall-cmd --new-policy internal-external --permanent firewall-cmd --reload firewall-cmd --policy internal-external --add-ingress-zone=internal --permanent firewall-cmd --policy internal-external --add-egress-z…

Since all your computers are behind the mini pc they are NAT’ed from the internet which means unless routing is enabled as per @Xino’s post or by configuring firewalld to NAT the packets, then they won’t be able to get to the internet.

The link inserted doesn’t format well, but when you visit the post you’ll see it correctly formatted and the steps required to configure firewalld.

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