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Advanced Firewalld

In this hands-on lab, you will need to use firewalld to create a new service, add that new service to permitted connections for the default zone, drop all traffic from an IPSet, and add a rich rule for traffic from a specific subnet.

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Clock icon Advanced
Duration
Clock icon 1h 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 25, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create a new service in firewalld.

    • The service name should be: jobsub.
    • The service's ports are: TCP 5671-5677.
    • This service should be enabled for the default zone (public).
  2. Challenge

    Create an IPSet in firewalld.

    You will need to create an IPSet for the following IPs and name it kiosk:

    • 10.0.1.12
    • 192.168.1.0/24

    Send all traffic from the kiosk IPSet to the drop zone.

  3. Challenge

    Add a rich rule for TCP 8080 traffic.

    Add a rich rule to accept traffic from 10.0.1.0/24 to port 8080:

    firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family=ipv4 source address=10.0.1.0/24 port port=8080 protocol=tcp accept

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