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dhcpcd vs Firewalld

A side-by-side look at dhcpcd and Firewalld. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

dhcpcd

dhcpcd

Network & Admin

dhcpcd is a DHCP client daemon that automatically configures network interfaces using DHCP. It is lightweight, reliable, and widely used on Linux systems to obtain IP addresses and other network configuration from a DHCP server.

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Firewalld

Firewalld

Security & Privacy

Firewalld is a firewall management tool for Linux operating systems. It provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network zones to define the trust level of network connections and interfaces. Firewalld is the default firewall solution in latest Red Hat based Linux distributions.

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