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submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Are there any suggestions for a firewall with an easy GUI? I want to open a port for kde connect so i can use sms and fling my phone to the back of the room. Thanks in advance

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If you are using KDE Plasma, then you should be able to install firewalld or ufw for the firewall, and plasma-firewall for having GUI firewall settings on Plasma settings.

If you dislike plasma-firewall, then nothing beats gufw as a frontend for ufw.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Okay thanks. Would gufw be installed alongside ufw?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nope, they are separate packages. Although installing gufw would trigger the install of ufw for obvious reasons.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm a big fan of firewalld with firewall-config. It's fairly easy to use even though it might look a bit complicated.

You find your default zone, usually public, you add your ports or your services, you save the changes to runtime and permanent config and you should be good to go.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There is a firewalld GUI that is pretty standard on many distros. (Fedora, opensuse, redhat, etc... use it)

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