Gufw - Simple GUI for ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall)
Posted by admin on September 15th, 2008 
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iptables is already a very powerful tool by itself, but it’s syntax can get awkward at times and hard to figure out, so Ubuntu developers decided to make ufw (”The reason ufw was developed is that we wanted to create a server-level firewalling utility that was a little bit more for `human beings`.”), which was to be simpler. Now, on the graphical side of things, Firestarer already existed. But why not make an even easier to use GUI for desktop `human beings`, powered by ufw? This is where Gufw comes in.
Install Gufw in Ubuntu
First you need to download latest .deb package from here .Now you should be having gufw_0.0.7c-all.deb package.You need to install this using the following command
sudo dpkg -i gufw_0.0.7c-all.deb
This will complete the installation.
Using Gufw
If you want to open Gufw go to Applications—>Internet—>Gufw Firewall Configuration
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to click on checkbox next to firewall enabled
If you use allow all incoming traffic you should see similar to the following screen
If you select Deny incoming traffic with simple configuration screen
You can see some preconfigured ports options
Some examples configured
Gufw version details
September 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I find the gui in different place, on system menu, on Hardy.
September 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
there is already newer version 0.20.0 released:
http://www.getdeb.net/app/gufw
September 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Thanks for the entry
We release new version (0.20.0). It’s in the Administration menu, in the repositoy of Intrepid and important improvement 
Best regards.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
In this time I haven’t got more time to study features and setting for this nice gui, but It will be good GUI use ubuntu for desktop, but there is a question:
In my desk, there is no servers, so I want to enables only established connections to allow incomeing, there is a way to use this setting, with guwf?
Thank’s for the answer.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Can i use this tool to setup a network firewall (not a desktop firewall)???
September 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
@Edson
This service is intended to use for desktop for GUI or ufw for Server
October 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
I still like Firestarter better than gufw. Why? Well, in my view, Firestarter produces BETTER iptable rules than does ufw or gufw.
But there is still a lot of room for someone to develeop a TRULY uncomplicated GUI iptable Firewall program. Unfortunately, neither gufw or Firestarter are it.
Please someone look at the Mac OS X Firewall GUI in Tiger (not Leopard). It is VERY easy for most newbies to figure out. There is no reason why the same GUI could not be developed for Linux iptables (or ufw).
October 16th, 2008 at 2:31 am
wish this was part of “apt-get install gufw”, but aside from that, glad to see progress being made on this.
Some pre-configured rules should be done for mysql (3306) and also for http (80), https, samba, and various other common developer ports.
Good start though!