Re: Firestarter Events always empty

[Kailash <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 01 December 2013 08:10 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote:
> 2013/12/1 Andreas Rönnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se
> <mailto:mailinglists@gusnan.se>>
> 
>     On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100,
>     Gábor Hársfalvi<hgabi84@gmail.com <mailto:hgabi84@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     >Why?
>     >
>     >Thanks for all possible answers
> 
>     From the Debian description at [1]:
> 
>     "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical
>     features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into
>     more modern alternatives such as gufw."
> 
>     To me it looks like (sadly enough) it hasn't had an upstream release
>     since 2005. [2]
> 
>     If I were you, I would look for alternatives.
> 
>     [1]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/firestarter
>     [2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/files/firestarter/
> 
>     -- Andreas Rönnquist
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> 
> I know its too old - but on other PC-s Firestarter works well with the
> same system - Debian Squeeze.
> 
> I just tried gufw too - but its not so good for me - in Firestarter I
> like Events tab where I can block/unblock anything very quickly. Is
> there any Firewall for Debian like this? I will try that
Hi,

http://debtags.debian.net/search/?wl=security%3A%3Afirewall%2Crole%3A%3Aprogram&q=firewall&qf=default

This shows the list of firewall apps/scripts (with tags) in the debian
main repository. I'm sorry, I've only experimented with Firestarter and
UFW to date.

HTH,
Kailash