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Firewalld vs vnStat

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

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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vnStat

vnStat

Network & Admin

vnStat is an open-source network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel to keep track of the monthly, daily and hourly bandwidth usage.

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