Thursday, April 9, 2009

Firewall for Ubuntu - Gufw



iptables is already a very powerful tool by itself, but it's syntax can get awkward at times and hard to figure out, so Ubuntu developers
decided to make ufw ("The reason ufw was developed is that we wanted to create a server-level firewalling utility that was a little bit more for `human beings`."), which was to be simpler. Now, on the graphical side of things, Firestarer already existed. But why not make an even easier to use GUI for desktop
`human beings`, powered by ufw? This is where Gufw comes in
.
Gufw is an easy, intuitive, way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports port(s), and many others! Gufw is powered by ufw , runs on Ubuntu, and anywhere else Python, GTK, and Ufw are available.


You can install it on ubuntu with this deb package: here

2 comments:

JohnSam said...

good

saji89 said...

There is another firewall available, called as firestarter...