Firewall Questions

[vanquishedangel]

Ok I know that firestarter is considered dead and most people say to use gufw but here are my questions

1. Firestarter is way more configurable than gufw (i mean by clicking buttons) so really isn't it better that way?

2. With either of these programs is the firewall running with the settings you put in when the gui is closed (are the rules still applying)?

3. Way back (i mean way back) I used safety.net for windows xp and it was the best windows firewall ever, is there a user interface in ubuntu that is similar to that one, or zonealarm? ( i mean for iptables)

[mangmista]

do you really need firewall?

[vanquishedangel]

do you really need firewall?

in short...yes, iptables acts/is a firewall and I just would like to configure it and so all ubuntu has it.

[Lars Noodén]

fwbuilder is another option, besides GUFW. Or you could just work directly with IPTables, either via a shell script or via iptables-save + iptables-restore.

[houseworkshy]

One doesn't have to worry about either if one simply uses ufw, it's actually very clear. "man ufw" in the terminal for details.