Anyone use ufw?

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stmiller · Post by **stmiller** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:03 pm

ufw seems to work well in Debian and Ubuntu. Any ufw yay or nays for Gentoo?

666threesixes666 · Post by **666threesixes666** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:37 pm

its in portage, it should be the same for the most part as debian/ubuntu. no gufw, but there is also nufw.

i was musing the idea of making a firewall wiki page, but never got around to it. another problem is that im not very knowledgeable about the subject so they would be little more than stubs.

Goverp · Post by **Goverp** » Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:27 am

I've been using UFW for a couple of years. It's now easy to install and configure. Originally it was a bit of a black art getting the necessary kernel options (bits of net filtering) right, but the latest ebuilds seem to check the right stuff. Make a point of running the check tool mentioned in the emerge output.

If you're a KDE user, there's kcm_ufw, which puts a firewall configuration item into the KDE System Settings menu, which makes it all look pretty integrated.