[PLUG] Notebook firewall

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jan 31 06:16:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Sean Whitney wrote:

> I've been using firestarter.  I just wanted something for my laptop when
> I'm traveling.  Needed to be flexible and easy.

  Thanks, Sean. Since firestarted is designed for Gnome, but has
condescended to work with KDE, too, I suspect it would probably work with
Xfce. However, unless I mis-read something it's only a GUI front end to
netfilter/iptables. For a notebook running no services other than ssh and
mozilla that communicate with the outside world, I suspect that manual
diddling with the relevant iptables files will work quite well.

Rich

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