I’m trying to open a port for transmission but before I get to know either of the 2 options I’d like to know what you recommend and why.

OS is xubuntu 24.04

  • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I use UFW personally but firewalld professionally. UFW ships with Debian based and firewalld with RHEL.

    If suppose I might like UFW’s syntax a bit more.

    The documentation is there for everyone to see. You can easily figure out what it takes to accomplish your task with both. Honestly though, why not just try it for yourself and come to your own conclusion. If you’re on Ubuntu, UFW is probably already installed.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Firewalld had, at least last time I checked, way more capabilities than UFW. Both are fine at being basic firewalls, but I don’t think you can build a router using just UFW.

      Firewalld allows some pretty advanced rules. I use it to redirect a bunch of web requests going to a certain address over a local ssh tunnel.

      • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Okay?

        I was responding to OP who doesn’t seem to know much about firewalls or networking. OP is on Ubuntu which probably has UFW installed by default.

        Building out Linux routers using nftables, iptables or Firewalld is a completely different topic.