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Description: I think chapter 4 needs a better introduction to firewalld. We mention that it replaces *tables and we even show how to mask them, but the real question is: why?

Why should we use firewalld over iptables and friends?

We are already comparing firewalld to iptables, so let's tell them why firewalld is better.