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I'm new to ubuntu, does it come with a firewall installed or will I have to install one, if so which one is best.

Mike Nelson
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Your question looks really broad, however just to mention that "Ubuntu has pre installed firewall and a Set of Rules what so called "IPTABLES".

You can do

sudo ufw status #this gives you the status if firewall is active or inactive

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sudo ufw enable #enables the firewall

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sudo ufw -h #displays all possible options

To enable the firewall just type sudo ufw enable ssh #this will enable firewall for ssh.

You can add some rules using iptables Command

sudo iptables -L -n #will list available rules for IPTABLES such as (INPUT, OUTPUT,NAT,etc.)

heavyguidence
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    UFW is a separate package, it's description is: "The Uncomplicated FireWall is a front-end for iptables, to make managing a Netfilter firewall easier. It provides a command line interface with syntax similar to OpenBSD's Packet Filter. It is particularly well-suited as a host-based firewall." It's supposed to be far easier using ufw to add rules than using iptables directly – Xen2050 Jan 14 '15 at 01:01