Chapter 19

The Linux Firewall

This chapter describes the following major topics:

Describe Linux firewall for host-based security control

Overview of the firewalld service

Understand the concepts of firewalld zones and services

Analyze zone and service configuration files

Control access to network services and ports through firewalld

Use firewall-cmd ...

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