Firewall Tool

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a firewall tool for my personal Ubuntu 8.04.1. server.
>>> I've found a number of them in Synaptic, and have tried a few in the past
>>> (firehol, firestarter, and fwbuilder).
>>> I've heard that fwbuilder is the best of these, but I found it somewhat
>>> difficult to use.
>>> As a consensus of the community, should I continue to persevere with
>>> fwbuilder, or would a tool such as firestarter really suffice?
>> You may also consider the new 'ucw'
>>
> <http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/howto-take-use-setup-and-advantage-of.html>
> 
> uFw - but if he bothers to read the link, he'd know that :-)

If you're going to run a firewall that works from text commands and
starts with default "Accept everything" policy, you might as well learn
to use iptables directly.  At the end of the day, if you go that route,
iptables is the last firewall configuration program you'll ever need to
learn.