Re: Is Guarddog still the easiest and best firewall GUI program for Linux?

From	notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.x, comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Is Guarddog still the easiest and best firewall GUI program for Linux?
Date	2011-12-02 21:42 +0000
Message-ID	<slrnjdihi9.2j6.notbob@nbleet.hcc.net> (permalink)
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On 2011-12-02, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is Guarddog still the best frontend GUI program to configure iptables 
> for firewalls in Linux (Debian) and average Linux desktop users?

I don't think so.  I use arno's firewall:

http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/joomla/

Arno's firewall starts out blocking everthing coming at your computer.
The only traffic allowed, by default, is outgoing traffic from your
computer and it's subject to stateful inspection.  End of story.  If
you want to allow incoming traffic for a server (ssh, http, etc), you
can do so by editing the bash script file that configures iptables at
boot up.

I tried figuring out guarddog, but it was jes too confusing.  With
arno's, no icons or zones or whatever all that GD crap is.  Jes get it
running and forget it.  This on a slackware box, where the command
line is mightier than the mouse.  ;)

If yer running ubuntu or some ubu variant, ufw seems to work well
enough.  It certainly lives up to its name, uncomplicated firewall.
I'd stick with that.  I don't know if ufw is available for debian.

nb

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