UPDATED: How to Configure FirewallD in RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora | Linux Today

UPDATED: How to Configure FirewallD in RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora

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Apr 3, 2021

Net-filter as we all know it’s a firewall in Linux. Firewalld is a dynamic daemon to manage firewalls with support for network zones. In the earlier version of RHEL & CentOS 6, we have been using iptables as a daemon for packet filtering framework. In RHEL/CentOS 7/8 and Fedora, the iptables interface is being replaced by firewalld.

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