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.

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