Is 172 a public IP range?
it's one of my routers.
daftykins: Well, I got no direct experience, - maybe we have a different IP range set up by the router . daftykins: I was thinking about setting up some sort of software firewall on ubuntu as root on another box. souptacular: oh, if you're wanting to do that then I agree that you need ufw. daftykins: thank you. Are there any gui type firewalls? I don't like looking at command lines all day long.
"not at all" is probably fair. souptacular: see "ufw enable" for more info about how that works in ubuntu. souptacular: you mean a GUI gui frontend to firewall? t0byg4z: yes exactly. you'd normally better off with a service. ubuntu ships a "Firestarter" since its very beginning. But its not made anymore since 11.10. There is a firewalllisten script that might look better than the standard firewall gui
you can create a simple userland firewall app, eg it includes a basic daemon which listens to incoming connections on ports <1024 or something, and responds with `ACCEPT` or `DENY` to the requester. you can also check out ufw, it's based off of iptables but has GUI. it's just an iptables wrapper. I am asking my server admin to stop using firestarter and instead use ufw. And told him to be a good boy :) i'm actually on my laptop using arch on a vbox guest, so I know iptables isn't that bad when done right. daftykins: Well, we need to try and isolate that router interface and determine what IP address range it has .
