Carlos Aguayo wrote: > Since you are interested in knowing what connections are active, you > might be interested in an "interactive" firewall, so that you can > build your trust list explicitly. I have heard good things about this > project, your mileage may vary: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardflower/ > > Carlos
That's more my mindset. The page also lists other projects with similar goals. I'll investigate further for an optimal solution. > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> <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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
