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A good firewall tool or not?

Postby D1Knight » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:03 pm

Hi there. :)

Is this http://code.google.com/p/ufw-frontends/ https://launchpad.net/~baudm/+archive/ppa a better tool, for a firewall?
Any useful thoughts or comments are appreciated. Have a good one. :)
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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby oceania68 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:32 pm

personally I dont see why you would use a command line when there are gui firewalls available, and as for the other one, why would u use something that is not trusted?

What is wrong with Firestarter? Or even better, make your own.... here are some links to check it out...

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/46668.aspx

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/30/how-to-build-your-own-network-firewall/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7184

and by the time you've finished reading , you'll be a guru at making firewalls... :D
Linux needs to invest in Simplicity if it is to stand a chance against Windows.. :D



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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby D1Knight » Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:33 am

oceania68 wrote:personally I dont see why you would use a command line when there are gui firewalls available, and as for the other one, why would u use something that is not trusted?

What is wrong with Firestarter? Or even better, make your own.... here are some links to check it out...

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/46668.aspx

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/30/how-to-build-your-own-network-firewall/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7184

and by the time you've finished reading , you'll be a guru at making firewalls... :D

Hey oceania68. :) Thanks for your response. The links I posted on this thread, are for the same firewall tool (homepage & Launchpad page), which is a gui. Now as far as Firestarter, the last time I checked this tool has been dead for some time-no development going on....soooo if a vulnerability appears, no support for a fix.

I mainly made this post, to see if anyone else has tried the ufw-frontend firewall (gui) tool. Since I am still noob-ish, I was hoping for some insight about this tool, as far as safe to use or not. The features of this gui look real simple to use.

Thanks for the links. :) I shall give them a look. I appreciate you. :D Have a good one.
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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby oceania68 » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:56 am

Yes u r right... Ive installed the ufw frontend and playing with it now... it seems to be working and offers simple user friendly configurations... Im running it along side firestarter... all works thus far...
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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby stlsaint » Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:42 pm

By far your better off going with some simple iptable's rules. http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/iptables/
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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby oceania68 » Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:37 pm

That is handy.... for me, being dyslexic, it will take a while to comprehend all the info, thanx for that anyways.. :D
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Re: A good firewall tool or not?

Postby D1Knight » Mon Nov 01, 2010 4:38 am

stlsaint wrote:By far your better off going with some simple iptable's rules. http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/iptables/

Wow! 8-) Stlsaint, thanks for sharing. :D This is a well organized tutorial. Excellent. :)
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