On 7/24/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have 2 questions. I have a laptop running Ubuntu feisty fawn to access the internet for e-mail and surfing the net. 1) Does anyone have a favorite firewall that is easy to setup?
I assume you mean on the laptop itseld? A "host-based" firewall? In that case, I'd use Firestarter. It's a nice GTK application that is fairly easy to use (as any featureful firewall program can be) and walks you through initial setup pretty well. It also does a pretty good job of "doing the right thing" in terms of sensible defaults and the like. If you want something for a server, I like using Shorewall. It's modular, sensible, and supports all the esoteric iptables features you could want, or that I have wanted at least. There's no reason not to use shorewall on a desktop-ish machine, except that the learning curve is higher, and it doesn't have all the extra shiny features that make Firestarter nice. Both are in the Ubuntu repos. 2) Does anyone have an easy to use gui application to control the
daemons running?
There is a very simple service manager installed (I believe) by default in Feisty under System -> Administration -> Services. It is minimalist to the extreme, but meets your requirements of "Gui" and "Simple". There seem to be a number of items that it does not show though, perhaps in an effort to keep people from breaking things too badly. I typically do this sort of management by hand from the command-line though, so I don't have a "favorite" gui tool. Oh, and there is also "sysvconfig" which is gui-ish. It uses a text-based "gui" and is fairly feature complete. A quick check just showed me that it includes what seems to be everything I would expect it to, not doing the filtering that the other tool apparently does. I have had a major slowdown the last several days and now cannot
access the internet under feisty. The last thing I installed was skype. There are a number of daemons I don't recognize and figure stop them and put up a firewall and see what happens before I do a reinstall.
I'd second the idea that Skype is behind your problems. Disable super-noding and things are likely to return to normal, or if you don't use it often, disable the deamon, which I'm sure is the root of the above question. :D -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman-
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