c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 Aug 2026 22:57 can someone explain this to me? 🫪 check post at origin
Layer 7 firewalls are a thing
Layer 7 firewall sounds so wrong
That’s why it’s usually called a WAF (Web Application Firewall), although you can also have L7 firewall for non-web applications (SMTP, SQL, whatever)