Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "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.
I assume you are referring to iptables. I didn't find tools that I'd class as user friendly. Carlos' post references something that matches my mindset. > > Is the usb modem connected directly to your laptop? Yes > > 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 ;-). I don't recall - my Linux machine isn't here at the moment. But it is of that form. > > 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? Both. Possibly overkill, but I have a certain mindset. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
