Uncomplicated Firewall

kmyfirewall
Developer(s)	KLajos et al.
Repository	git.launchpad.net/ufw ;
Operating system	Linux
Platform	Qt
License	GNU General Public License

Gufw (GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall)
	GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall
Original author(s)	Gufw Developers
Stable release	20.04.1-1
Repository	git.launchpad.net/ufw ;
Written in	Python, PyGObject
Operating system	Linux
Platform	GTK
Available in	More languages
License	GNU General Public License

Uncomplicated Firewall
Developer(s)	Canonical Ltd.
Stable release	0.36.2 / May 18, 2023; 19 months ago
Repository	git.launchpad.net/ufw ;
Written in	Python
Operating system	Linux
License	GNU General Public License
Website	launchpad.net/ufw, manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man8/ufw.8.html

Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) is a program for managing a netfilter firewall designed to be easy to use. It uses a command-line interface consisting of a small number of simple commands, and uses iptables for configuration. UFW is available by default in all Ubuntu installations since 8.04 LTS.^[1] UFW has been available by default in all Debian installations since 10.

GUIs for Uncomplicated Firewall

UFW KControl Module
Repository	git.launchpad.net/ufw
Operating system	Linux
Platform	Qt
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.linux-apps.com

UFW Frontends
Original author(s)	Darwin Bautista

Stable release	0.3.2 / 2012; 12 years ago (2012)

Repository	git.launchpad.net/ufw
Written in	Python, PyGTK
Operating system	Linux
Platform	PyGTK
License	GNU General Public License
Website	github.com/baudm/ufw-frontends

Gufw is intended to be an easy, intuitive graphical user interface for managing Uncomplicated Firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common P2P, or individual ports. Gufw has been designed for Ubuntu, but is also available in Debian-based distributions and in Arch Linux; anywhere Python, GTK and UFW are available.

Features

Netfilter feature^[2]	0.16.2 (8.04 LTS)	0.30 (10.04 LTS)	0.31.1-1 (12.04 LTS)	0.34-0 (14.04 LTS)	0.35-0 (16.04 LTS)
Default incoming policy (allow/deny)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Allow/deny incoming rules	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IPv6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Logging (on/off)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extensible framework	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Application integration	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Limit incoming rules (rate limiting)	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiport incoming rules	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
debconf/preseeding	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Default incoming policy (reject)	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reject incoming rules	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rule insertion	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Log levels	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Per rule logging	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outgoing filtering (on par with incoming)	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Filtering by interface	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bash completion	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upstart support	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Improved reporting	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reset command	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
rsyslog support	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Delete by rule number	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Python 2.6 support	—	—	Yes	Yes	Yes
'show listening' report	—	—	Yes	Yes	Yes
Python 2.7 support	—	—	Yes	Yes	Yes
Increased protocol support (AH, ESP)	—	—	Yes	Yes	Yes
IPv6 rate limiting via 'limit' command	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
Python 3.2 support	—	—	—	Yes	No
Python 3.3 support	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
'show added' report	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
Python 3.4 support	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
Before/after extensibility hooks	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
Routed packet filtering (FORWARD)	—	—	—	Yes	Yes
systemd support	—	—	—	—	Yes
Increased protocol support (IGMP, GRE)	—	—	—	—	Yes
Python 3.5 support	—	—	—	—	Yes
Snappy for Ubuntu Core support	—	—	—	—	Yes
Per rule comments	—	—	—	—	Yes