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What is a firewall in networking?

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The fact of the matter is that a firewall is something that helps to control the connection between any two computers in the world. This means that a firewall will help to control the traffic between any two computers on the internet. Are you know  what does a firewall do ? A firewall does this by determining which ports are open, and which ones are closed on the computers in question.  A firewall can also be used to determine whether or not any particular connection to another computer should be allowed to pass through the firewall or not. A firewall is basically a protocol that helps to prevent any untoward connections from happening between computers that are connected to one another. This process is usually done by blocking packets of data, and then managing all the different ports that are opened and closed to allow or block the traffic for each of the packets. In order to answer the question, we have to understand what a firewall is, and what it can do. To put it