> > <snip> > >>>>> "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. <snip> >
Firewalls generally work by traffic type such as email, voice over ip, etc by using what are know as well known port numbers, port numbers up to 1024 that have been generally agreed upon and standardizes, also by source/destination and days/hours of access. I can think of at least a half dozen firewall apps that are available on Debian. Which one are you using? For a novice of firewalls, I'd recommend guarddog or firestarter. They both have GUIs for configuring the firewall and are easy to configure with very little customization and/or firewall knowledge. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
