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Re: [opensuse] Re: Interactive Firewall Needed
  • From: John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 21:06:13 -0700
  • Message-id: <4A03AFB5.5000704@xxxxxxxxx>
Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 07 May 2009 06:34:44 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:

close the port the app requires, hint: yast2

I'm afraid it is not that simple.

Any application can use any port for outgoing traffic, and firewall can't do
much about it.

I beg to differ.

Every network I set up has egress filtering on key ports (such as port 25
at a very minimum).

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