I’ve just upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and experienced that my ufw firewall (iptables) would not route traffic from my local network to the Internet. My IP masquerading was not working anymore and since I had not documented the process when I set it up I had to search the Ubuntu [...]
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Using ufw / iptables in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a new and easy firewall/iptables tool introduced in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron). ufw is a front-end for iptables-restore, with its rules saved in /etc/ufw/before.rules, /etc/ufw/after.rules and /var/lib/ufw/user.rules. Administrators can customize before.rules and after.rules as desired using the standard iptables-restore syntax. Rules are evaluated as follows: before.rules first, user.rules next, and [...]
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