Mike C. wrote: >> >> <snip> >>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> 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.
I'll have to take another look at guarddog and firestarter. I've read more since I last looked at them I may now get a more favorable impression than I recall. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
