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Gufw firewall settings

mehmeh12 · 2009-11-22 14:04:19

Hi When setting the firewall rules for Gufw what are the main differences between Deny, Reject and Limit-That is what do each of these settings do? I want to stealth all my ports but want to remain visible enough to use firefox and bittorrent. How do i do this? Also this is annoying but there dosent seem to be info on this…

22-11-2009 03:04PM

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mehmeh12

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Hi

When setting the firewall rules for Gufw what are the main differences between Deny, Reject and Limit-That is what do each of these settings do? I want to stealth all my ports but want to remain visible enough to use firefox and bittorrent. How do i do this?

Also this is annoying but there dosent seem to be info on this on the main website https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gufw

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mehmeh12

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At the very least can someone please tell me how much protection having the firewall set to only default deny all will give? will it stealth my ports?

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