Request for Presentation

[Dazed_75]

I'd like to see this on the East side if possible.  The Topic would be
something like "Common User Configuring the Firewall".  My preference would
be Ubuntu Orientation if it makes any difference.  I would hope this could
use some GUI tool and be aimed at telling a common user when to want/need an
active firewall and when it should not be required and how to configure it
in terms they would understand.  I know I find many of the online guides
less than ideal.

BTW, the following is a reply I sent to an installfest user we installed
last December who asked me if PLUG might do such a presentation he could
attend:

That is something I would like to see as well because there are *so
many*different ways to do it and many require a deep understanding of
networking
> to do well.  What I would like to see is a presentation of how a lay user
> can configure a/the firewall for use on a public network as well as on any
> machine connected directly to an ISP (not behind another firewall).  I will
> suggest such a talk (as you could if you made the suggestion on the PLUG
> Discuss mail list.
>
> Actually ubuntu does have a firewall (ufw) installed by default that is not
> turned on by default.  You can turn if on and off from a terminal with "sudo
> ufw enable|disable".  Configuring it is another story and there are many
> ways to do that.  By default it allows the user of the machine to do almost
> anything and does not permit anything outside the machine to come in except
> in response to something user initiated.  That is probably a gross
> oversimplification.  Here are a few links you might find useful if the
> quantity is not enough to confuse the issue:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html
>
> http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/04/29/how-to-set-up-the-firewall-using-ufw-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-server
>
> http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/05/14/how-to-configure-the-firewall-with-firehol-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx
>
> http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Basic_Ubuntu_Linux_Firewall_Configuration
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firestarter
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-the-firestarter-firewall-on-ubuntu-linux/
>
> http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/8256-installing-a-firewall-on-ubuntu
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/Linux_Firewall_iptables/x6058.html
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/Linux_Firewall_iptables/c6042.html#FWBUILDER
>

-- 
Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  - Thomas Jefferson
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