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3.7. Using Firewalls

3.7.1. Introduction to firewalld

The dynamic firewall daemon firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network zones to assign a level of trust to a network and its associated connections and interfaces. It has support for IPv4 and IPv6 firewall settings. It supports Ethernet bridges and has a separation of runtime and permanent configuration options. It also has an interface for services or applications to add firewall rules directly.