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Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) is a program for managing a netfilter firewall 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. UFW is available by default in all Ubuntu installations since 8.04 LTS.[1] UFW has been available by default in all Debian installations since 10.
| Developer(s) | Canonical Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.36.2[1]
/ May 18, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Linux |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | launchpad |
 GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall | |
| Original author(s) | Gufw Developers |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python, PyGObject |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | GTK |
| Available in | More languages |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Original author(s) | Darwin Bautista |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.3.2
/ 2012 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python, PyGTK |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | PyGTK |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | github |
Gufw is intended to be an easy, intuitive graphical user interface for managing Uncomplicated Firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common P2P, or individual ports. Gufw has been designed for Ubuntu, but is also available in Debian-based distributions and in Arch Linux; anywhere Python, GTK and UFW are available.
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| Netfilter feature[2] | 0.16.2 (8.04 LTS) |
0.30 (10.04 LTS) |
0.31.1-1 (12.04 LTS) |
0.34-0 (14.04 LTS) |
0.35-0 (16.04 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 | Yes |
| Default incoming policy (reject) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reject incoming rules | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Rule insertion | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Log levels | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per rule logging | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Outgoing filtering (on par with incoming) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering by interface | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bash completion | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Upstart support | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Improved reporting | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reset command | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| rsyslog support | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delete by rule number | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Python 2.6 support | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 'show listening' report | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Python 2.7 support | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Increased protocol support (AH, ESP) | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IPv6 rate limiting via 'limit' command | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Python 3.2 support | — | — | — | Yes | No |
| Python 3.3 support | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| 'show added' report | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Python 3.4 support | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Before/after extensibility hooks | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Routed packet filtering (FORWARD) | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| systemd support | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Increased protocol support (IGMP, GRE) | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Python 3.5 support | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Snappy for Ubuntu Core support | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Per rule comments | — | — | — | — | Yes |
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