User-Friendly Firewalling [Re: ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy]

[Patrick McFarland]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 05:56, Sam Morris wrote:
> The solution doesn't have to be that horrible. :)
>
> Netfilter provides the QUEUE and NFQUEUE targets, which queues packets for
> delivery to a user space process. This would presumably be a system-wide
> daemon that would talk to the 'current' user session via the system
> message bus.

No no no! This is a bad idea! Firewall has to be a system wide thing that 
effects all users. (ie, the Firewall's config panel appears in 
System->Administration).

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