iptables

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 7 08:42:12 UTC 2012


On 7 December 2012 01:12, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/06/2012 04:29 PM, Wes James wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>     On redhat based linuxes, you enable the firewall by
>>     either using the "services" gui or use the command
>>     line chkconfig.
>>     Once enabled, it always starts at boot(assuming you
>>     have set up your firewall rulesfile which is
>>     /etc/sysconfig/iptables).
>>     As I am indeed new to ubuntu, I need way of
>>     "enabling" iptables and thus having it always
>>     start at boot automatically.
>>
>>     Thanks for any tips.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     JD
>>
>>
>>
>> sudo ufw enable
>>
>> google ufw
>>
>> you can get a gui with
>>
>> sudo apt-get install gufw
>>
>> good luck,
>>
>> wes
>>
>>
> That works Wes. Thanx!
> However, upon reboot, wireless lan no longer gets started by NetworkManager.
> How do I force wlan restart at boot up?

Are you saying that enabling ufw stops the wifi from working?  That
does not sound very likely.

Colin

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