https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358440

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--- Comment #8 from John <[email protected]> ---
Debian came in the past with FirewallD too, but I don't think it does that
anymore.
I've been using for years OpenSnitch:
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
And I would like that KDE Connect is aware of it, understand its replies, but I
don't want any default rule for it!
I prefer to be aware of all the requests to pass through the firewall for which
I want to decide if I allow them or not, which creates the rules!
I don't trust and like too much firewall which come with a lot of default
rules.

On Android I use 2 firewalls, depending if the phone allows administrator
(root) permission or not.
If it does, then I use AFWall+:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.ukanth.ufirewall/
If it doesn't, then I use NetGuard:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/

I prefer the AFWall+ one, which requires administrator (root) permission,
because that way I can also use a VPN app of my own to connect to the home
router,it has better (easier) filters to show the system or the user apps only
and has more granular permissions.

So on the Android side, It would be nice if KDE Connect would be aware of the
existence of these 2 firewalls and would interact nicely with them.
At the moment discovery fails, but it's unclear for me if this has anything to
do with AFWall+ or the fact that it has only the LAN permission for KDE
Connect, for which I opened a bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512315
As there are multiple bug reports here about discovery problems without MDNS,
which I also didn't activate as I didn't know that I could still do that after
the changelogs on F-droid about MDNS being removed.

Can you please make KDE Connect on both sides be more aware of firewalls, like
checking their existence, checking their rules (if possible) and also make it
more verbose so we can see on each step what is actually doing, what other
third party processes, applications, functions is calling, on what ports and
what are their responses to those calls?
It's pretty hard or even impossible to figure out if the firewalls are the
problem, their rules are the problem, on which side the problem is if  KDE
Connect on both sides doesn't say anything useful, from which we can get an
idea where the problem might be.

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