13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
12:46 a.m.
I don't really understand the intent behind firewalld. The RHEL7 Security Guide states "A graphical configuration tool, *firewall-config*, is used to configure firewalld, which in turn uses *iptables tool* to communicate with *Netfilter* in the kernel which implements packet filtering".
So is the goal for firewalld to implement a GUI for iptables? What is the "value added" by firewalld? Thanks....Nick Geo