Yeah - that might be fine for a home user, but I might want to block all smtp from leaving my LAN except from a specific mail server.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:29 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Firewall suggestions? On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:24:20 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes that's all fine, but not the point. The point is, all servers on > the internet are reachable *by the orange*, and that's a bad joke. It works on the idea that there are levels of security, and you need no special rights to access hosts at a lower level of security than yourself. Green >Orange>Red. To the best of my knowledge this is a fundamental concept, but my background is primarily on Cisco kit, where this is a given.
