securing Ubuntu and firewall

[Tom Smith]

I use the latest Firestarter from universe. I like it quite a bit. I
used to write my own iptables scripts and spent more time than I care to
remember setting up and testing the scripts and then trying to explain
the darn stuff to my boss (well, previous boss)--he never did get
iptables enough to actually write his own scripts... But I digress. :-)

I think Firestarter is quite flexible and will work for most uses from
setting up a basic firewall to protect a single computer to setting up a
firewall/NAT computer that can port forward traffic to, say, an internal
web server. It's fairly simple to use but you do have to be familiar
with the basic workings of a firewall. On my first time using it, I
spent about 10 minutes browsing the different menu and configuration
options--I configured a couple things and told it to start the firewall
and viola! The firewall was up and running. Very simple, very quick.

Their documentation seems to have gotten quite good too. Just click on
Help > Online Users' Manual and you'll be taken to their web site for
the documentation.

Hope this helps.

~ Tom

Derek Broughton wrote:

>H.S. wrote:
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>>>So far, I'm least _unhappy_ with Guarddog.
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>>Yes, I have discovered this option as well. Have you given firestarter a
>>try? Just wondering if you knew how they compared.
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>Not in far too long for it to be any kind of fair comparison.  Last time I
>tried firestarter I thought it might be quite good, but the documentation
>was close enough to non-existent to make it useless for a firewall
>beginner.
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