Network problems

[Tom H]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Although Ubuntu comes loaded with iptables, the core of any firewall,
>>> if no rules are set it "doesn't work". Gufw is just a graphic
>>> interface to iptables that enables easy handling of rules. [ ]
>>
>> For the sake of future googlers: it isn't that the firewall doesn't
>> work on a default Ubuntu install, it's that there are no rules loaded;
>> gufw is a graphical front-end of ufw, which is itself a front-end
>> (with rule syntax similar to one of the BSDs) to iptables.
>
> I'm sure future googlers will be able to read the entire paragraph and
> also grab the meaning of " " in a sentence.

There's a difference between "hadn't been configured" and "doesn't
work" whether in the firewall case above or, following your rationale,
in saying (for example) that "network manager doesn't work" if you
haven't set up a network connection.