Design
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The design of ufw is pretty straightforward.  It's object oriented and consists
of basically two types of objects:

UFWFrontend: 	user-interface
UFWBackend:	application logic

UFWBackend is an interface that any number of backends will inherit from, which
allows for using ufw with any pre-existing or future firewall application. The
reference backend, UFWBackendIptables, uses simple 'iptables' and
'iptables-restore' commands and is suitable for a host-based firewall use-case.
It is envisioned that other backends will be written as the use-cases for ufw
grow.  Perhaps a UFWShorewallBackend (for shorewall) or UFWPFBackend (for
OpenBSD PF).

UFWFrontend uses with the UFWBackend interface and src/ufw provides the UI.
src/ufw uses UFWFrontend object and is CLI, but other front-ends like GUI
applications could build on top of ufw by either interacting with the installed
CLI ufw or by creating another frontend that uses UFWFrontend.

Implementation
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The application is written in python, just because it is so easy to work with.
:)

IPV6
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Preliminary IPv6 support is included in ufw. To keep IPv4 addressing easy to
use, the IPv4 and IPv6 configuration are kept completely separate (ie there
are no IPv4 mapped addresses).


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