LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Moving Forward With Firewalld
Channel: linuxfestnorthwest
Date: 30/04/2018

Cathy Smith

These days, we hear about the need to have good computer security even from commercial tv and radio news no less. Basic security practices call for the of use of a host-based firewall on our computers. Many of us have been using iptables to provide the protection of host-based firewall. With the wide spread adoption of systemd, we are now faced with moving to firewalld. While firewalld is advertised as a wrapper for iptables, it is not a direct one to one mapping of syntax or configuration. This will be a basic introduction to firewalld. A general knowledge of the purpose and function of a host-based firewall will be helpful but is not required.