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[Theodore Ruegsegger]

Roger W. Broseus asked:
>> Trying to climb out of the pit of ignorance, how does on "turn-on" /
>> enable iptables in Ubuntu? From what I've read, one *must* know what they
>> are doing w/ iptables or step quickly into deep doo.

and Mackenzie suggested:
> Firestarter is a nice GUI for configuring iptables.  There's also ufw,
> which is a command-line simplified wrapper for iptables, but in 8.04 it
> can't do outbound rules without you mucking about with iptables-restore
> syntax.

I've been using Guarddog (http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/)
and I'm pleased with its ease-of-use (I still know very little about
iptables itself but have no trouble understanding guarddog).

That said, I'd love some informed opinions from this group about how
it compares to other iptables front-ends.

Ted