[PLUG] Debian firewall for newbies?

[Richard Owlett]

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. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Owlett <rowlett at 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.
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