firewall configuring

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 13 November 2012, lee sent:
> Great, that is going to conflict with my shorewall configuration when I
> update.  And running another daemon process all the time for something
> that rarely ever changes once it's set up?  Adding even more
> dependencies with networkmanager?  Involving d-bus which is something
> nobody understands?  That just sucks.

I tend to agree.

However, I can see one need for a daemon, though wonder whether it does
anything about it:  Things that actually require dynamic firewall
configuration, such as the random port used by FTP, UPnP thingoes, et
cetera.  If it doesn't actually provide a solution to problems like
them, then what's the point?

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