In Ubuntu the program is called ufw. Firestarter and fwbuilder are two GUI front ends that I have heard of, though I have not used them.
You don't really need to worry about IPv6 since your ISP does not make use of IPv6 and your router probably doesn't either. Unless you manually set up an IPv6 tunnel with sixxs.net or tunnelbroker.net, you are not using IPv6. Even if you are using an IPv6 tunnel, the vast majority of your traffic will not be using IPv6. In measuring this at my house, only Google services and the stuff that I do seems to make use of IPv6. IPv4 is going to be with us for some time yet. What are you trying to do? For the most part, a modern default desktop Linux install does not enable listening services, so a firewall does not really do anything. Before we jump to solutions it would help to know what the problem you are trying to solve is :) Contrary to what the marketing groups at Symantec and Network Associates would have you believe, a firewall has specific threats that it helps to protect against, and almost none of them are relevant to a home user. For learning about networking, there is a simply fantastic guide at lartc.org. Everything you could possibly want to do with a Linux box and a (or many) network connection(s) is covered there. For more general networking concepts and practice, the Network Warrior book published by O'Reilly is really well done, though it is targeted at IT pros. The TCP/IP guide is also fantastic (I reviewed this for CLUG many years ago, and liked it so much that I bought my own copy). Hth, On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Joe S <joes...@shaw.ca> wrote: > I am looking for a firewall program to set up iptables on my > computer. Any suggestions. I would also appreciate if someone > could refer to some tutorial. I will probably have to get a > basic understanding of networking and iptables to be able to use > it. From my search I came across ip6tables. Considering this is > the new format would I need to learn and set up both, depending > on the website? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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