Firewall configuration under Ubuntu 8.04

Sat Apr 26 19:17:45 UTC 2008

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 21:30 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> I do not want the firewall to protect the specific VM installation, I am
> experimenting with 8.04 under a VM. 

I see

> The command line version you
> mentioned is somehow better than firestarter?

I don't know. Firestarter is a pretty simple to use firewall for basic
needs. I have no experience whatsoever with ufw. See its wiki page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall

If you want to learn about powerful firewalls, look into something like
shorewall