wsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wsa> My question was about linux and how to accomplish security wsa> on application level, like what happens in windows with a personal wsa> firewall. wsa> Because i don't understand how i can achieve full security when opening wsa> ports...like port 80 for the web or 110 and so on.
What behavior do Windows "personal firewalls" have that you'd like to replicate? [1] What are you trying to protect yourself from -- what entails "full security" on an arbitrary outgoing HTTP connection? (And, have you read the Firewall-HOWTO? It looks informative, if a bit political at times.) [1] The people I talk to regularly seem convinced that the primary purpose of this sort of software is to generate extra calls to various institutions' technical support lines; the answer to "why are you attacking my machine" seems to always be "because you're running broken software that doesn't correctly do TCP" or "because you're running broken software that's configured to get NTP information from our Web server by default for no terribly good reason". -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
