James Knott wrote:
What's your opinion ? If it connects to the Internet, it's external. So, if you're installing on a stand alone computer, then the NIC is configured as external. If you're building a firewall, the NIC connected to the Internet is external and the one connected to the local network is internal. Normally, it's traffic from the outside world that has to get past the firewall.
One other thing, with notebooks, they may be used part time on a safe local network, where you may choose to not use a firewall and part time elsewhere, where you should. What you can do is have the firewall start up by default and then have a script that checks to see if you're on your home network and then shuts down the firewall. The test can be as simple as pinging a local IP address, such as your router, and then checking the arp cache to see if the appropriate MAC address is there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org