Lesson 20 of 29 · Security
The firewall — iptables, firewalld and nftables
Objective
Let only the necessary traffic into a server, whatever the tool of the version: iptables on RHEL 6, firewalld on RHEL 7 and later, and nftables, which does the work behind the scenes on RHEL 8+.
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