Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) is a frontend for Iptables, the software we commonly use to manage netfilter which is a filtering function included in Linux Kernel. Since managing Iptables requires from middle to advanced network administration knowledge front ends were developed to make the task easier, Uncomplicated Firewall is one of them and will be explained in this tutorial.
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