>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Owlett <[email protected]> writes:

Richard> What I want should be simple, block *EVERYTHING* except
Richard> email, newsgroup, and browsing with SeaMonkey or it's Debian
Richard> blessed counterpart. There will be occasional downloads fro
Richard> Debian repositories.

Firewalls can't (generally) tell what application you are using.  All
they really see is your network source/destination addresses and ports
and such.

Is the usb modem connected directly to your laptop?

What is the name of the interface when you are connected?  Maybe ppp0
or usbnet0 or something?  I haven't dealt with dialup in a while ;-).

Also, just to be clear, are you trying to block connections your
laptop is making to the world?  Or just connections coming from the
world to your laptop?


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