Re: iptables service with debian

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:38:45AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> …or using something more or less non-standard like the
>> apf-firewall or arno-iptables-firewall packages (or any other iptables
>> frontend; these are the two that I know of).
>
> ufw is another which is quite simple for basic firewall needs.

Thanks for pointing this out. I should've remembered it since I've had
to use it in production but have only tested the other two.

ufw's different from apf and arno because it's a command-line frontend
to iptables whereas with apf and arno there's just some config files
to edit.