Ubuntu Firewall

[sdavmor]

On 03/03/2010 02:46 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>
>> Does Ubuntu 9.10 have a Firewall, and if so how can I change its
>> settings?  I don't see a panel for it in System=>Preferences or
>> System=>Administration, assuming there is a Firewall.  I'm trying
>> to get Hamachi to work.  I've gotten it installed just time but I
>> can't get the two machines (Ubuntu desktop, Windows laptop) to
>> talk to each other.  Hamachi sees the users on the network I've
>> created, but to my laptop my desktop looks like its offline when
>> its not, and my desktop can't ping my laptop.
>>
>> I've turned the Firewall off on the Windows side.  That's caused
>> some issues in the past for Hamachi.
>>
>> I'd like to use this to be able to access my files on my desktop
>> when I've away from my local network here in the apartment.
>
>
> I recently went through an exercise of getting a good firewall
> established.
>
> For what it is worth Firestarter currently has no maintainer and I
> was not able to make it fit my needs.
>
> I settled on Shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net). I do not know if
> a version is available for 9.10 (I am using 8.04 LTS) but I would
> expect it would be. The documentation is very good and once I had
> the configuration files correct everything works as I wanted it
> to.
>
> I know nothing about Hamachi...
>
> Just my experience...
>
> Cheers, Jay

I'm using the basic ufw firewall with the gufw Gufw 9.10.4 graphical
front-end. Works great.
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