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[David Curtis]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:20:40 -0300
Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca> wrote:

> The only thing I would change about David's advice is to use gufw, not
> Firestarter.  Firestarter is outdated, gufw is the new and supported
> way of handling your firewall using a GUI.
> 
> I also wouldn't put "firewall" in quotes when describing iptables,
> it's not hypothetical or supposed, it's a real and legitimate
> enterprise-class firewall that happens to also be easy enough for the
> average person to pick up relatively easily.  But that's just me being
> kinda picky :)
> -- 
> Joel Goguen
> When we help, we benefit

I stand by the quotes, Iptables and other parts of the packet filtering
framework (netfilter) are used to _build_ enterprise-class firewalls.
It's not a firewall in and of itself. I use the quotes to indicate
that as far as us users are concerned iptables is the interface that
applies our rulesets and generally the only part of netfilter we need be
concerned with. Therefore, for simplicities sake, lets call it the
'firewall' as opposed to a gui. But truly, it's the machine, hardware
and software, that is the firewall.



Dave