Concepts / Firewalls

Firewalls

Firewall

Also called packet filter, iptables, nftables, rule

Rules deciding, packet by packet, what may reach or cross a device.

Rules match addresses, ports, interfaces and connection state, and accept, drop or reject. Routing gets a packet somewhere; the firewall decides whether it may go. A network firewall only governs traffic that crosses it.

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