Host-based firewall

A host-based firewall, or more commonly shortened to host firewall, is a firewall operating on a host and determining which traffic can enter and exit the host.

  • iptables (low-level host firewall)
  • nftables (low-level host firewall)
  • ufw (higher-level host firewall, see Gufw for a GUI)
  • firewalld (higher-level host firewall, 0.7k ⭐)
  • fwbuilder (GUI, mirror - 0.2k ⭐)