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Re: [LUG] Firestarter on Debian

 

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Henry Bremridge wrote:

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:01:14PM +0000, John wrote:

Just a suggestion but rather than using Firestarter which is just a
frontend to IPtables you could have  quick peek at ufw if its available
for your distro, it is a console front end to IPTables.

I've found it easier to use than a GUI interface for a while now, it is
as simple as :

sudo ufw allow 8080
or
sudo ufw deny 80/tcp
or
sudo ufw allow ssh

sudo ufw status
Shows existing rules

Its often quicker than doing the same thing in a GUI has been my
experience.

Been meaning to look at command line firewalls for a while now. Thanks for
the tip: it seems a lot easier than the gui

My typical internet-facing server one looks like:

  http://unicorn.drogon.net/firewall

That's aimed as a VoIP server, but you can fathom it out from there.

Gordon

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