udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Firewalls
Lance Lassetter
lance at uclinux.info
Mon Jun 6 23:54:20 CDT 2005
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:01 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> All this chatter about firewalls, but nothing has been added to
> http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Firewalls. Will the people who care about this please
> figure out what is important and post it. and please focus on defining the
> problem - that seems to be the biggest problem with this thread.
>
> I think this thread should be focused on improving that wiki page and what should
> be added or removed from it. I believe it is the wiki page that will drive a
> change in Ubuntu, not a long thread.
>
> Currently there is:
>
> <quote>
> Scope and Use Cases:
>
> Charles wishes to protect his machine, which is directly on the Internet, from
> attackers. He wishes to be able to continue to use his peer-to-peer clients.
>
> William wishes to enable his machine, which is directly conected to the Internet,
> to serve web pages to his friends, whilst remaining protected otherwise.
>
> Harry wishes to share the connection on his computer to the rest of his family.
> </quote>
>
> I believe the current Ubuntu install covers all 3 of these, so as it stands,
> nothing more is needed. However, the "Rationale" section of the wiki page implies
> otherwise. Some of the posts in this "mobility and firewall" thread suggest that
> there are more use cases, which might justify the Rationale.
>
>
> Carl K
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Okay I added something to the wiki regarding laptop users.
Thanks Carl.
Lance
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