Firewall Configurations
After years on Ubuntu, I switched my daily-driver workstation to Fedora (originally Fedora 36, around the time this post first went up). The piece I want to focus on here is firewall management — specifically, moving off of UFW and learning to drive firewalld properly on a host that runs a lot of virtual machines for security research. firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network/firewall zones that define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. It supports IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet bridges, and ipsets, and it cleanly separates runtime and permanent configuration. — firewalld.org ...