o beckles wrote:

> How?
>
> I don't run Mandrake as a server and so all of the services are 
> unchecked.  However, that setting also kills client apps so I have to 
> research the applications and their ports and key them in at the 
> bottom, which does not always work.

actually, insert the lines opening the system for the apps at the top of 
the list.
1 it makes it easier to find when testing the settings
2 I beleive that the first configuration for a port overrides any 
subsequent configuration, so at the top the apps get through while at 
the bottom they don't

>
>
> One example is rdesktop which is documented to only use one port but 
> adding that port/tcp and port/udp does not help any.
>
> To me that equates to a default setting of high when compared to other 
> firewalls programs.
>
> Ben Reser wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:10:27PM -0400, o beckles wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Are there any plans to allow different levels of protection in the 
>>> firewall?  Right now the iptables rules are too strict to function 
>>> properly on a windows network without manually adjusting the rules.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Huh?  You can adjust them however you want?
>


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