[tor-talk] [off-topic] linux firewall

Ben Tasker ben at bentasker.co.uk
Fri Dec 23 15:04:57 UTC 2016


Depending on what options your kernel was compiled with, you may be able to
do this -
https://debian-administration.org/article/120/Application_level_firewalling


Otherwise there's Douane - http://douaneapp.com/ - no idea if it's any
good, or leopardflower

> Like http, the linux firewall is the same concept from the age of arpanet.

old /= broken

As Sebastian said, AFWall+ is just a front-end for iptables.





On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Sebastian Niehaus <niehaus at web.de> wrote:

> [off topic, please not on this list]
>
> 2016-12-23 14:04 GMT+01:00 Lara <lara.tor at emails.veryspeedy.net>:
>
> > Linux is such a backwards system
> >
>
>
>
> > I can't seem to find any decent firewall. Like http, the linux firewall
> > is the same concept from the age of arpanet. Do you know any working and
> > stable project that can be the equivalent of say AFWall+?
>
>
>
> AFWall+ is just a frontend for old stona age iptables which seems not to be
> an option for you .
>
>
> Sorry
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