firewalld - A firewall daemon with D-BUS interface providing a dynamic firewall (test version)

[Thomas Woerner]

On 12/27/2010 08:42 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:06:05PM +0100, nodata wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all thanks for making this work on the command line first and
>> gui second.
>>
>> Can I ask a stupid question? Does dbus have the kind of performance
>> necessary to support this type of application?
>>
>
> What kind of performance do you think is necessary? Its just a
> configuration interface, its not like its pushing all your packets
> through dbus or asking the bus every time it needs to make a routing
> decision (or did I miss something? I'd certainly hope not).
>
> --CJD

There will be an optional firewall mode, where you can define firewall 
features, the user will be asked about, but this will be limited to new 
connection attempts and not all packets in an established connection.

Thanks,
Thomas

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