Ubuntu Firewall

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, March 04, 2010 09:00 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 3/3/2010 4:55 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>> For what it is worth Firestarter currently has no maintainer and I was not able
>>> to make it fit my needs.
>>
>> Are you referring to upstream or in Ubuntu?
>>
>
> I missed the beginning of this thread and if I've missed the point,
> kindly disregard this post.  I use ufw and it works fine for most things
> and is fairly easy to use.  I have it running on my server.
>

I setup rules from /etc/network/interfaces so I myself am in no need of 
either ufw or firestarter or whatever.

I am more interested in why a LTS release such as hardy provides a 
packet filter rule creation tool that is not maintained at all.