Uncomplicated Firewall
Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) is a firewall that is designed to be easy to use. It uses a command line interface consisting of a small number of simple commands, and uses iptables for configuration.
GUIs for Uncomplicated Firewall
GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall (Gufw) is, as the name states, a graphical user interface for UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall). It has been designed for Ubuntu, but is also available in other Debian based distributions and in Arch Linux.
Gufw is intended to be an easy, intuitive, way to manage an Ubuntu firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common P2P, or individual ports.
Gufw is powered by UFW, runs on Ubuntu, and anywhere else Python, GTK+, and UFW are available.
Features
Feature |
0.16.2 (8.04 LTS) |
? (8.10) |
? (9.04) |
? (9.10) |
0.30 (10.04 LTS) |
Default incoming policy (allow/deny) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Allow/deny incoming rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
IPv6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Status | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Logging (on/off) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Extensible framework | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Application integration | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Limit incoming rules (rate limiting) | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Multiport incoming rules | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
debconf/preseeding | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Default incoming policy (reject) | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reject incoming rules | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Rule insertion | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Log levels | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Per rule logging | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Outgoing filtering (on par with incoming) | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
Filtering by interface | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
Bash completion | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
Upstart support | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
Improved reporting | - | - | - | - | Yes |
Reset command | - | - | - | - | Yes |
rsyslog support | - | - | - | - | Yes |
Delete by rule number | - | - | - | - | Yes |
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