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Juha Siltala
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:
Re: Recommendations please - Firewall for desktop Linux stat |
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On 2005-01-18, Mark South <marksouth@null.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:35:19 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
And it might be very nice, but Mandrake 10.1 sets up iptables by default
with generally sensible settings, so I was just wondering what problem
Alan was trying to solve with a different firewall. It turned out he was
thinking like a Symantec-on-Windows user, expecting the firewall to be
very talkative.
What kind of talk? Mine talks quite a bit:
I meant Symantec-like popping-messages-to-the-display kind of behaviour as
opposed to silently writing to the logs. But that was an inference on my
part anyway.
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Firestarter may be annoying enough if you leave the GUI running: it spits
the log out real time on the GUI, and lets you refine your firewall in
various ways based on the hits. What is still missing is the regular
pop-up asking you what to do with every packet, but there's always the
panel applet blinking red and green at you :)
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Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/ |
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Alan Browne-
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Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:25 am Post subject:
Re: Recommendations please - Firewall for desktop Linux stat |
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Mark South wrote:
| Quote: | And it might be very nice, but Mandrake 10.1 sets up iptables by default
with generally sensible settings, so I was just wondering what problem
Alan was trying to solve with a different firewall. It turned out he was
thinking like a Symantec-on-Windows user, expecting the firewall to be
very talkative.
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Essentially correct. I can't see any logged activity ... but that's
'cause I don't know where to look...!(yet). Ain't being new at
something refreshing...
Cheers,
Alan. |
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Mark South
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:
Re: Recommendations please - Firewall for desktop Linux stat |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:44:00 +0000, Juha Siltala wrote:
| Quote: | On 2005-01-18, Mark South <marksouth@null.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:35:19 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
And it might be very nice, but Mandrake 10.1 sets up iptables by default
with generally sensible settings, so I was just wondering what problem
Alan was trying to solve with a different firewall. It turned out he was
thinking like a Symantec-on-Windows user, expecting the firewall to be
very talkative.
What kind of talk? Mine talks quite a bit:
I meant Symantec-like popping-messages-to-the-display kind of behaviour as
opposed to silently writing to the logs. But that was an inference on my
part anyway.
Firestarter may be annoying enough if you leave the GUI running: it spits
the log out real time on the GUI, and lets you refine your firewall in
various ways based on the hits. What is still missing is the regular
pop-up asking you what to do with every packet, but there's always the
panel applet blinking red and green at you :)
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Stop it, you're making me nostalgic for the old days when I used Windows....
:-)
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Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen |
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