Hello, this is a misleading title, it should how to turn OFF firewall. But how and ever, I noticed unlike the other distros ubuntu has a specific driver for my graphic card PNY nvidia GeForce under gnome system administration.

As soon as I selected that I lost my network connection. I did some trouble shooting and am concluding it has to be software setting to do with ubuntu more than likely some sort of firewall.

I was not able to ping anything. I could not even get my router's browser.

The very act of setting up the graphic must have thrown off the router settings.

I booted into the dual boot windows setup on the same system and WAS able to log into router ( no firewall installed ). True to enough, the router password and username were taken off. Now I can get a network with windows but the ubuntu that is on my hard drive still wont connect.

I can also use ubuntu live dvd to log in to network.

I have checked gnomes system authorizations but have not found anything helpful.

I have setup a static ip in /etc/network/interfaces and name server in /etc/resolv.conf

If this was windows I would reset tcp/ip but don't how this is done in Linux.

Can anyone help?

The firewall is iptables the frontend that's used in ubuntu is Firestarter.

It's not really used by default, it's just in the help and support as an example of what to do download, where it talks about firewalls.
By default, according to their site where I read this, and also my computer, they include ufw as the "standard" sort of Ubuntu firewall - it's included and installed by default, for the last couple/few releases.
Firestarter is not a bad firewall, it does work with iptables. By default, Ubuntu does not set iptables in any way that I'm aware of, unless they did before they started including ufw or something.

ufw 0.27-0ubuntu2
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I've used Firestarter, it seems good ... if you enable ICMP filtering, though, you will be tinkering with things like ping.

Well, it's been a bit of a pain. I rebuilt ubuntu from scratch ( format reinstall ). I set up everything including favorite packages, static LAN and it was fine and dandy for four hours. This morning i fire up my PC and am back to square one. I cannot ping anything including my router. i.e. host unreachable.

I am using my Centos 5 on same system using different hdd.

I will certainly look into ufw --version. Surprised I have not received any other feedback on this. Must be a major pain with the rest of the community.

Any more detail in how to manage this firewall would be appreciated. Do you know how to reset TCP/IP on Linux?

Start a terminal session and type man ufw for options available to manage the firewall.

If you don't know much about iptables, and think maybe iptables is already doing something to interfere with what you're trying to do, you could use
to list all the settings you have right now, and see if something is set strangely ...

Here are the results;

ufw --version


siawash@ubuntu:~$ man utf
No manual entry for utf



Also tried

sudo iptables -L


siawash@ubuntu:~$ sudo iptables -L
[sudo] password for siawash:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

*************]




I ping my gateway


siawash@ubuntu:~$ ping 192.168.0.1
connect: Network is unreachable
siawash@ubuntu:~$

Not surprised you got nothing, it's ufw I sometimes have to add the host ips, address to the /etc/hosts file when I couldn't reach machines on my network.

Well, then iptables isn't what's causing the problem ... I don't know.

oops! sorry...will get back to you with results soon..

OK, but I am still getting the same results

man utw
no manual entry for utw

U F W

You could install Firestarter as a firewall, it works with iptables and it's very easy to use, but your problem isn't with the iptables settings also, because the ones you showed are the default settings and don't change anything. I'm sure it's something else ...