On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:13:19PM +0200, jdd wrote:
If you want to control _outbound_ access look into using squid, that is what it was designed for. The firewall is designed mainly for _inbound_ access control.
and here, inbound mean the inside of the server itself (hence the http for external _and_ internal branches of the network)
Inbound normaly means from outside of somthing into something. "Incomming" is perhaps a better or easier word. So it goes from outside of the server, into the server. Wether this is WAN or LAN is irrelevant. It is perfectly possible to have inbount traffic from WAN to LAN, because you need to look from the point of view of the server. Is it trafic generated by the server then it is outbound. If it is traffic for the server, then it is inbound. If the server IS the firewall, then a connection from WAN to LAN will be both inbound and outbound. Client asks the server access on port 80 -> Inbound. Server passes it on the the crrect place -> Outbound. -- We all came out to Montreux Frank Zappa and the Mothers On the Lake Geneva shoreline Were at the best place around To make records with a mobile But some stupid with a flare gun We didn't have much time Burned the place to the ground --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org