ufw VS simplewall

ufw Reviews

simplewall Reviews

1. kik    

   Student | about 3 years ago
   Opensource GNU C++ build firewall

   Simplewall

   Prompt on screen
   
   Older UI as compare to tinywall
   
   I haven't found an option for block by PID if in case it bother you
   
   Packet logging is there, helpful for insight
   
   Update: DNS query resolve available (* only on pop up window, not available in packet log history)
   
   Last update 05 / 09 / 2020 (https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
   

   🏁 Competitors: TinyWall, Comodo Firewall, ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall, NetLimiter, OpenSnitch, Gufw

   👍 Pros:    Prompt based firewall|Open-source|Packet logging available|Dns resolution of ip

   👎 Cons:    User friendly interface|Many popup *sometimes

ufw mentions (4)

• Cannot install gufw in fedora37

  You may already know this, but gufw is simply a graphical front-end to the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) service. Fedora uses the Firewalld back-end service instead of ufw. I believe you would need to replace Firewalld with ufw entirely in order to make gufw a plausible solution. Source: about 1 year ago

• ufw --help is very bad

  I just started using ufw https://launchpad.net/ufw and I found that it only shows --help for the root command. Source: over 2 years ago

• why UFW is open-source and GUFW is proprietary ?

  Why do you think Gufw is proprietary? It's FOSS, licensed as GPL v3, as documented here. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Huge surge in hits to connectivitycheck.gstatic.com from my phone knocks out my PiHole

  Another option is to use UFW and rate limit incoming packets. Because it's a firewall, it will block the queries even before they hit Pi-hole, but it might be a tad more tricky to set up. I also don't know if you can set it as a limitation per client or only in general (per port/rule). I'll leave that for you to investigate further. Source: almost 3 years ago

simplewall mentions (0)