On Sunday 01 December 2013 08:10 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > 2013/12/1 Andreas Rönnquist <mailingli...@gusnan.se > <mailto:mailingli...@gusnan.se>> > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, > Gábor Hársfalvi<hgab...@gmail.com <mailto:hgab...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > >Why? > > > >Thanks for all possible answers > > From the Debian description at [1]: > > "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical > features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into > more modern alternatives such as gufw." > > To me it looks like (sadly enough) it hasn't had an upstream release > since 2005. [2] > > If I were you, I would look for alternatives. > > [1]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/firestarter > [2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/files/firestarter/ > > -- Andreas Rönnquist > mailingli...@gusnan.se <mailto:mailingli...@gusnan.se> > gus...@gusnan.se <mailto:gus...@gusnan.se> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > <mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org <mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org> > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131201141424.4a206...@debian.lan > > > > I know its too old - but on other PC-s Firestarter works well with the > same system - Debian Squeeze. > > I just tried gufw too - but its not so good for me - in Firestarter I > like Events tab where I can block/unblock anything very quickly. Is > there any Firewall for Debian like this? I will try that Hi,
http://debtags.debian.net/search/?wl=security%3A%3Afirewall%2Crole%3A%3Aprogram&q=firewall&qf=default This shows the list of firewall apps/scripts (with tags) in the debian main repository. I'm sorry, I've only experimented with Firestarter and UFW to date. HTH, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529d59d6.2050...@gmail.com