Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Alexey Mishustin
Hi Grant, Isn't this classic option suitable? groupadd noinet usermod -a -G noinet iptables -A OUTPUT -i -m owner --gid-owner noinet -j DROP and calling not Plex but sg noinet Plex (or whatever name the binary has) -- Best regards, Alex

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote: > Sorry, I meant go out of your way to select more than one > interface. I'm genuinely confused anyone would ever do that let > alone Plex. I assume they're using some sort of SSDP library that by default spews on all available interfaces. > Yes, you're right (as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Sid Spry
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? > >> > >> I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? >> >> I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written >> by Windows programmers who assume that your computer e

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Sid Spry
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? > > I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written > by Windows programmers who assume that your computer exists for no > purpose other than runn

[gentoo-user] How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written by Windows programmers who assume that your computer exists for no purpose other than running their program and their program alone. It spews multicast an