The latest Windows 8 and 8.1 systems have Windows Firewall and the Windows 10 and above systems use Windows Defender Firewall. This tutorial is created on Windows 8.1, so the screenshots may differ for Windows 10 and above users.

Enable or Disable the Windows Firewall

Use the below steps to enable or disable a firewall on a Windows system.

1. Search for the Windows firewall in the menu. The screen may differ as per the Windows version.
   

   

2. On this screen you will see the firewall is active or inactive. Under the left sidebar menu click “Turn Windows Firewall on of off”

   

3. Now, you can turn on or turn off the firewall for the private or public networks.
   • Private network settings: This will enable/disable firewall for the local area network (LAN).
   • Public network settings: Use this section to turn on/off access for public (Internet) users

   After selecting the appropriate option, click on the OK button.

   

4. All done. You can revert changes anytime with same steps

Wrap Up

Again we are advised to keep the firewall active on your system. This tutorial helped you to turn on/off the Windows firewall.

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Firewalld is a firewall management solution for many Linux distributions including, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL and Fedora. It acts as a frontend for the iptables filtering system provided by the Linux kernel. It is protocol independent that means it supports IPv4, IPv6, ethernet bridges and IP sets.

Basic Concept of Firewalld

FirewallD uses zones and services instead of iptables chain and rules. Zones are a set of rules that specify what traffic should be allowed depending on the level of trust you have in a network your computers connected to. Network interfaces assigned a zone to dictate a behavior that the firewall should allow.

The firewalld is managed using the firewall-cmd command-line tool. It provides an interface to manage runtime and permanent configuration.

Firewalld Zones

There are 9 pre-defined zones in the Firewalld depending on the level of trust in ascending order.
A brief explanation of each zone are explained below:

• Drop : This zone has the least level of trust and used to drop all incoming traffic without sending any acknowledgment to the sender.
• Block : This zone is very similar to the Drop zone, the incoming traffic is rejected and the sender gets a message.
• Public : Allows traffic from certain public networks.
• External : This zone is used when your system acts as a gateway or router.
• Internal : The set of rules that apply to the computers in your private internal network.
• DMZ : This zone is an isolated patch of computers in your internal network that may not access other internal resources.
• Work : This zone is used for work machines. The trust level is high.
• Home : Most computers in this zone trust each other. The trust level is higher than work.
• Trusted : This zone has the highest trust level. All computers in the network are trusted.

Step 1 – Installing Firewalld

By default, Firewalld is pre-installed on most of the operating systems. But some of the minimal OS installation doesn’t included fiIf not installed, you can install it with the following command:

sudo yum install firewalld        # CentOS/RHEL 8/7/6 
sudo dnf install firewalld        # Fedora and CentOS/RHEL 8 
sudo apt install firewalld        # Ubuntu and Debian  

After installing firewalld, you will need to start and enable it to start after system reboot.

sudo systemctl start firewalld
sudo systemctl enable firewalld

Run the following command to verify the status of firewalld

systemctl status firewalld
[OR] 
firewall-cmd --state

Step 2 – Working with Zones and Services

By default, public is the default zone in firewalld and all network interfaces are configured with public zone. You can list the default zone with the following command:

firewall-cmd --get-default-zone

Output:

public

Next, run the following command to get a list of active zones:

firewall-cmd --get-active-zones

You should get the following output:

public
  interfaces: eth0 eth1

To get a list of all available zones run the following command:

firewall-cmd --get-zones

You should get the following output:

block dmz drop external home internal public trusted work

You can list all services associated with a public zone with the following command:

firewall-cmd --list-all

You should get the following output:

public (active)
  target: default
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces: eth0 eth1
  sources: 
  services: cockpit dhcpv6-client ssh
  ports: 
  protocols: 
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports: 
  source-ports: 
  icmp-blocks: 
  rich rules: 

To change the default zone from public to work run the following command:

firewall-cmd --set-default-zone=work

You can now verify your default zone with the following command:

firewall-cmd --get-default-zone

Output:

work

You can get a list of all available services in your system with the following command:

firewall-cmd --get-services

You should get the following output:

RH-Satellite-6 amanda-client amanda-k5-client amqp amqps apcupsd audit bacula bacula-client bb bgp bitcoin bitcoin-rpc bitcoin-testnet bitcoin-testnet-rpc bittorrent-lsd ceph ceph-mon cfengine cockpit condor-collector ctdb dhcp dhcpv6 dhcpv6-client distcc dns dns-over-tls docker-registry docker-swarm dropbox-lansync elasticsearch etcd-client etcd-server finger freeipa-4 freeipa-ldap freeipa-ldaps freeipa-replication freeipa-trust ftp ganglia-client ganglia-master git grafana gre high-availability http https imap imaps ipp ipp-client ipsec irc ircs iscsi-target isns jenkins kadmin kdeconnect kerberos kibana klogin kpasswd kprop kshell ldap ldaps libvirt libvirt-tls lightning-network llmnr managesieve matrix mdns memcache minidlna mongodb mosh mountd mqtt mqtt-tls ms-wbt mssql murmur mysql nfs nfs3 nmea-0183 nrpe ntp nut openvpn ovirt-imageio ovirt-storageconsole ovirt-vmconsole plex pmcd pmproxy pmwebapi pmwebapis pop3 pop3s postgresql privoxy prometheus proxy-dhcp ptp pulseaudio puppetmaster quassel radius rdp redis redis-sentinel rpc-bind rsh rsyncd rtsp salt-master samba samba-client samba-dc sane sip sips slp smtp smtp-submission smtps snmp snmptrap spideroak-lansync spotify-sync squid ssdp ssh steam-streaming svdrp svn syncthing syncthing-gui synergy syslog syslog-tls telnet tentacle tftp tftp-client tile38 tinc tor-socks transmission-client upnp-client vdsm vnc-server wbem-http wbem-https wsman wsmans xdmcp xmpp-bosh xmpp-client xmpp-local xmpp-server zabbix-agent zabbix-server

Step 3 – Allow and Deny Services in Firewalld

You can allow and deny incoming traffic based on predefined services in firewalld.

For example, to allow all incoming traffic for http service in Public zone run the following command:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http

Output:

success

To allow incoming traffic for ftp service in Public zone run the following command:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=ftp

Output:

success

The above command will add http and ftp service temporary and it is not persistent on reboots. You will need to use the --permanent option to make them permanent as shown below:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=ftp

Next, run the following command to implement the changes:

firewall-cmd --reload

You can now get a list of added services with the following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --list-services

You should see the following output:

cockpit dhcpv6-client ftp http ssh

You can also check the detail information about Public zone with the following command:

firewall-cmd --info-zone public

Output:

public (active)
  target: default
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces: eth0 eth1
  sources: 
  services: cockpit dhcpv6-client ftp http ssh
  ports: 
  protocols: 
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports: 
  source-ports: 
  icmp-blocks: 
  rich rules: 

If you want to remove/deny the above services from the firewalld, use the --remove-service option:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-service=ftp

Next, run the following command to apply the changes:

firewall-cmd --reload

Step 4 – Allow and Deny Ports in Firewalld

You can also allow and deny incoming traffic based on the port in firewalld.

For example, allow all incoming traffic on port 8080 and 443, run the following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp

Next, run the following command to apply the changes:

firewall-cmd --reload

Next, verify the added ports with the following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --list-ports

Output:

443/tcp 8080/tcp

Similarly remove/deny the above ports from the firewalld, use the –remove-port option:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-port=443/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-port=8080/tcp

Next, run the following command to apply the changes:

firewall-cmd --reload

Step 5 – Port Forwarding with Firewalld

Port forwarding is the process that redirects request from IP/port combination and redirect it to a different IP and/or port. This technique allows remote machines to connect to a specific service within a private network.

Before configuring port forwarding, you need to activate masquerade in the desired zone. You can activate it using the --add-masquerade option:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-masquerade

Next, to forwards traffic from port 80 to port 8080 on the same server run the following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080

If you want to forwards traffic from local port 80 to port 8080 on a remote server with IP address 192.168.1.200 run the following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080:toaddr=192.168.1.200

Next, run the following command to apply the changes:

firewall-cmd --reload

If you want to remove the above rules, replace –add with –remove as shown below:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080:toaddr=192.168.1.200
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --remove-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080

Conclusion

In the above guide, you learned the basic concept of Firewalld and how to implement it on the Linux operating system. I hope you can now limit unnecessary incoming traffic with firewalld.

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• Read this: How to Install CSF Firewall on Linux

Step 1 – Install Required Perl Modules:

CSF UI required some of Perl modules to be installed on your system. Use the following commands to install required modules as per your operating system.

Debian based systems:

$ sudo apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl \
                    libnet-libidn-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libsocket6-perl

Redhat based systems:

$ sudo yum install perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Net-LibIDN \
               perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Socket6

Step 2 – Enable CSF Firewall Web UI:

To enable CSF web UI edit /etc/csf/csf.conf file in your favorite text editor and update the following values.

$ sudo vim /etc/csf/csf.conf

# 1 to enable, 0 to disable web ui 
UI = "1"

# Set port for web UI. The default port is 6666, but
# I change this to 1025 to easy access. Default port create some issue
# with popular chrome and firefox browser (in my case) 

UI_PORT = "1025"

# Leave blank to bind to all IP addresses on the server 
UI_IP = ""

# Set username for authetnication 
UI_USER = "admin"

# Set a strong password for authetnication 
UI_PASS = "admin"

After making changes, edit /etc/csf/ui/ui.allow configuration file and add your public IP to allow access to CSF UI. Change OUR_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS with your public IP address.

$ sudo echo "YOUR_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS" >>  /etc/csf/ui/ui.allow

Web UI works under lfd daemon. So restart the lfd daemon on your system using the following command.

$ sudo service lfd restart

Step 3 – Access and Use Web UI:

Now, access CSF UI on your browser with the specified port. For this tutorial, I have used 1025 port. This will prompt for user authentication first. After successful login, you will find the screen like below.

Allow IP Address – You can use below option to allow any IP quickly. This add the entry in /etc/csf/csf.allow file.

Deny IP Address – You can use below option to deny any IP quickly. This add the entry in /etc/csf/csf.deny file.

Unblock IP Address – You can use below option to quickly unblocked any IP which is already blocked by CSF.

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LFD stands for Login Failure Daemon. Its an process that actively monitors the log file for user login entries and send the alerts to admin on basis of configured rules. read more about CSF.

This article will help you to install CSF on Linux system with very easy steps.

Step 1: Download CSF Source Archive

Download latest CSF archive source code from its official site and extract on your Linux box. Then extract source code.

# cd /tmp
# wget http://download.configserver.com/csf.tgz
# tar xzf csf.tgz

Step 2: Install CSF Firewall

CSF provides a bash script to easily install it on any operating system. This script automatically detects your operating system and install CSF accordingly. Run install.sh script.

# cd /opt/csf
# sh install.sh

Step 3: Test iptables modules

Run the csftest.pl perl script to verify if all the required iptables modules are installed on your system to make is proper working.

# perl /usr/local/csf/bin/csftest.pl

Testing ip_tables/iptable_filter...OK
Testing ipt_LOG...OK
Testing ipt_multiport/xt_multiport...OK
Testing ipt_REJECT...OK
Testing ipt_state/xt_state...OK
Testing ipt_limit/xt_limit...OK
Testing ipt_recent...OK
Testing xt_connlimit...OK
Testing ipt_owner/xt_owner...OK
Testing iptable_nat/ipt_REDIRECT...OK
Testing iptable_nat/ipt_DNAT...OK

RESULT: csf should function on this server

Step 4: Enable and Restart CSF

After successfully installing CSF on your system, You need to change following setting in csf.conf to enable CSF.

# vim /etc/csf/csf.conf

TESTING=0 

Now type the following command on the terminal to restart CSF firewall and reload new changes.

# csf -r

Additional Settings:-

Step 5: Enable CSF Web UI

Use our following tutorial to enable web UI for CSF firewall on Linux system.

https://tecadmin.net/how-to-enable-csf-firewall-web-ui/

Step 6: Prevent DDOS Attacks

Configure CSF+LDF to prevent server from DDOS attacks. To enable it edit /etc/csf/csf.conf and update following settings.

CT_LIMIT = "20"

CT_INTERVAL = "30"

CT_EMAIL_ALERT =1

CT_PERMANENT = 1

CT_BLOCK_TIME = 1800

CT_PORTS = "22,23,80,443"

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This tutorial will help you to set up a firewall with UFW on Ubuntu and Debian Linux systems. Let’s begin with the installation of UFW on your system.

How to Install UFW Firewall

The Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems ship with default UFW installed. In case it is not installed, run the following command to install UFW. If it’s already installed, the command will upgrade UFW to the latest version.

Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install ufw 

This will install or update UFW firewall packages on your Ubuntu, Debian, or Arch Linux systems.

How to Enable/Disable UFW Firewall

By default, UFW is an inactive state on most of the Debian systems. So use the following command to enable UFW:

Enable UFW

sudo ufw enable 

To disable the UFW, you can use the following command.

Disable UFW

sudo ufw disable 

Check UFW Status

Now make sure UFW is in an active state by executing the following command.

sudo ufw status

Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
22                         ALLOW       Anywhere
22 (v6)                    ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)

Enable/Disable IPv6

You might be required to use IPv6 with your firewall. Disable IPv6 support if your system is not configured to use IPv6. To do it edit /etc/default/ufw and set IPV6 “yes” or “no”.

IPV6=no

After making changes disable and enable the firewall to apply changes.

sudo ufw disable && sudo ufw enable 

Allow Connections with UFW

Here are some examples of allowing specific ports with the UFW command.

• Allow Specific Ports – To allow a single port, for example allow port 21(FTP), 80(HTTP) and 443(HTTPS).

  sudo ufw allow 21/tcp 
  sudo ufw allow 80/tcp 
  sudo ufw allow 443/tcp 
  

• Allow Specific Services – UFW uses /etc/services files to get port of specific service, So we can allow any service with name instead of defining port. Like ftp (21), http(80).

  sudo ufw allow ftp/tcp 
  sudo ufw allow http/tcp 
  sudo ufw allow https/tcp 
  

• Allow Port Range – We can also allow range of ports in single command like:

  sudo ufw allow 1100-1200/tcp 
  

• Allow Access to Specific IP – To allow connections from specific ip address use following command.

  sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.100 
  

• Allow Access to Subnet – To allow connections from any ip address of subnet use following command.

  sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.0/24 
  

• Allow IP to Specific Port – To allow connections from any ip address of subnet use following command.

  sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.100 to any port 22 
  

Deny Rules with UFW

• Deny Specific Ports – To allow a single port, for example allow port 21(FTP), 80(HTTP) and 443(HTTPS).

  sudo ufw deny 21/tcp 
  sudo ufw deny 80/tcp 
  sudo ufw deny 443/tcp 
  

• Deny Port Range – We can also allow range of ports in single command like:

  sudo ufw deny 1100-1200/tcp 
  

• Deny Access to Specific IP – To deny connections from specific ip address use following command.

  sudo ufw deny from 192.168.1.100 
  

• Deny Access to Subnet – To deny connections from any ip address of subnet use following command.

  sudo ufw deny from 192.168.1.0/24 
  

• Deny IP to Specific Port -To deny connections from any ip address of subnet use following command.

  sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.100 to any port 22 
  

Enable or Disable Logging

UFW created logs for all filtered connections in /var/log/ufw.log file. It can be helpful for troubleshooting Use below to enable or disable logging.

Enable logging:

sudo ufw logging on 

Disable logging:

sudo ufw logging off 

Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall

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Step 1 – Install CSF Firewall

First download latest source code of CSF firewall and extract on your system using following commands.

wget https://download.configserver.com/csf.tgz
tar xfz csf.tgz
cd csf

After extracting latest code from your system. Execute install.sh script to install CSF on your system. The installer will automatically detect for cPanel server and install required modules for it.

sh install.sh

Step 2 – Configure CSF Firewall

Now edit /etc/csf/csf.conf configuration file and disable TESTING mode by setting value to “0”.

 TESTING = “0”

Let’s restart csf service

csf -r

Now you can visit to WHM interface Home » Plugins » ConfigServer Security & Firewall to access CSF graphical interface for more configuration options.

Step 3 – Manage CSF with Command Line

We can also manage CSF firewall using command line. For example below is some

To allow an IP. Ip will be added to /etc/csf/csf.allow

csf -a 11.22.33.44
[or]
csf --add 11.22.33.44

To deny an IP. Ip will be added to /etc/csf/csf.deny

csf -d 11.22.33.44
[or]
csf --deny 11.22.33.44

To search for specific IP, CIDR in iptables rules.

csf -g 11.22.33.44
[or]
csf --grep 11.22.33.44

Start the firewall rules

csf -s
[or]
csf --start

Flush/Stop firewall rules (Note: lfd may restart csf)

csf -f
[or]
csf --stop

Restart CSF firewall rules

csf -r
[or]
csf --restart

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Disable Firewalld Service

Before installing and using iptables services on CentOS and Red Hat 7 systems, we need to disable firewalld service. To completely disable firewalld service use following commands.

sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl mask firewalld

Now check firewalld status

sudo systemctl status firewalld

firewalld.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2015-02-27 11:09:37 EST; 56s ago
 Main PID: 7411 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Feb 27 11:02:18 svr10 systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
Feb 27 11:09:36 svr10 systemd[1]: Stopping firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...
Feb 27 11:09:37 svr10 systemd[1]: Stopped firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.

Install Iptables on CentOS/RHEL 7

Now install iptables service using yum package manager using the following command.

sudo yum install iptables-services

After installing enable iptables service and start using below commands.

sudo systemctl enable iptables
sudo systemctl start iptables

Now check the iptables service status using below command.

sudo systemctl status iptables

To list iptables rules use the following command.

sudo iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source       destination
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere     anywhere       state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere     anywhere     
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere     anywhere     
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere     anywhere       state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
REJECT     all  --  anywhere     anywhere       reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
                                              
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)                 
target     prot opt source       destination  
REJECT     all  --  anywhere     anywhere       reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
                                              
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)                  
target     prot opt source       destination  

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Enable Iptables LOG

We can simply use following command to enable logging in iptables.

iptables -A INPUT -j LOG

We can also define the source ip or range for which log will be created.

iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.10.0/24 -j LOG

To define level of LOG generated by iptables us –log-level followed by level number.

iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.10.0/24 -j LOG --log-level 4

We can also add some prefix in generated Logs, So it will be easy to search for logs in a huge file.

iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.10.0/24 -j LOG --log-prefix '** SUSPECT **'

View Iptables LOG

After enabling iptables logs. check following log files to view logs generated by iptables as per your operating system.

On Ubuntu and Debian

iptables logs are generated by the kernel. So check following kernel log file.

tail -f /var/log/kern.log

On CentOS/RHEL and Fedora

cat /var/log/messages

Change Iptables LOG File Name

To change iptables log file name edit /etc/rsyslog.conf file and add following configuration in file.

vi /etc/syslog.conf

Add the following line

kern.warning /var/log/iptables.log

Now, restart rsyslog service using the following command.

service rsyslog restart

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