Thanks for the info. I am using a home computer. I was assuming I needed a firewall, that seems to be general information on the net.
On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:51:29 -0600 Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
