----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:15:01 +0100 > > > > > Dear All > > > > Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open > > selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs > > installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > > ********************************************************** > Paul, shorewall can do what you desire. Go to; mcc > security > > firewall, and click on the advanced radio button on the bottom. > That will open up an area where you can specify special ports to > open. > HTH. > Best regards. > > --Angus
>********************************************************************* I'm sorry Paul, I didn't read your post carefully enough. Shorewall doesn't have the facility to do as you require....just as you noted. :-) Best regards. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *********************************************** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *********************************************** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *********************************************** -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze
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