8、Fedora 31 Network Management and Firewall Configuration

Fedora 31 Network Management and Firewall Configuration

1. Network Connection Profiles in Fedora 31

In Fedora 31, network management is handled by the NetworkManager service. It views a network as composed of network interface devices and connections. A network device can be a physical Ethernet or Wi - Fi device or a virtual device for a virtual machine guest. Connections represent the network to which these devices connect and are configured by connection profiles.

1.1 Connection Profile Files

Connection profiles are stored in files located in the /etc/sysconfig/network - scripts directory. Files prefixed with ifcfg - are interface configuration files containing the connection profile for the corresponding con