MEWU - Scene 4 ... GUI Firewall ..

Hmm, like all you know , Linux is comparatively safer then other dumb OSes ... ( do i need to name 'em ?? ) ... so linux is not required to have an AV products ... also , It has built-in Firewall , which is Ip-Tables ...which are basically rules written manually !!! , but its little difficult for "common guy" like me to write syntexes and codes .. ah it just makes me nervous ... so i prefer more GUI ... well you can say its "side-effect" on me due to overdoze of "window" medicine !! ... so this front-end software is very handy for me ... they call it .."fire starter" ... sort of ..

Well, Firestarter is basically just a front end ... it still uses Ip-tables as back end .. means , since Ip-tables are little geeky to use, Firestarter makes life eazy by providing Graphical interface of Ip-tables !!!




we can install in via , synaptic manger ... just search for "firestarter" and you get it !!!

or in terminal type ..

sudo apt-get install firestarter

it will work fine too ... at first time you will be needed to provide the name of interface for which you want this firewall to work ... i use wifi mainly so i had chosen, ATH0 ( i think, ath0 is for atheros cards only !!! ) ... and you are all set ... but again , this GUI doesn't load on startups ... ( don't mix gui with original firewalls ... because the Ip-tables itself gets loaded once n/w gets established but in deamon/background ) , so to start firestarter at startup you can do any way you like , but the way i preferred is through , system -> preferances -> sessions , in startups , ADD , choose name and description as you like , and for command , write ,

gksudo firestarter

so , next time when you will boot , it will ask for password when it will be loaded i think its more safer option then just setting such a way that it doesn't ask for password ( still you need to save your password somewhere to make firestarter start automatically !!! , because thist s/w itself needed to have root privillage ) ...

njoy ....