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Re: [opensuse] Re: Interactive Firewall Needed
- From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:21:30 +0200
- Message-id: <200905062221.30715.ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:40:49 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Network packets? Depends on when you look at them. Once they've passed down
the protocol stack that is perfectly true, but why wait that long. You could
prevent the application from calling the syscalls to open a socket in the
first place
If you restrict yourself to iptables, that may be. But why do that.
Still, I'm not sure if the desired security model you're aiming for here is
something to be desired
Anders
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But the packets are not linked to apps
Network packets? Depends on when you look at them. Once they've passed down
the protocol stack that is perfectly true, but why wait that long. You could
prevent the application from calling the syscalls to open a socket in the
first place
Thus the popup message given in Windows is not possible here, the firewall
works very differently.
If you restrict yourself to iptables, that may be. But why do that.
Still, I'm not sure if the desired security model you're aiming for here is
something to be desired
Anders
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