Firewall

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/07/2010 08:03 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> There's also more to life than TCP ports.  UDP ports, ICMP, other
> protocols, other unrecognized protocols, packets containing completely
> random stuff ...  Having a firewall that lets through every TCP port
> does still give you protection from this other stuff.

This is starting to sound like more reasonable arguments than "ZOMG
FIREWALL".  Thank you.  We should be sure to document these things in a
page that explains why Fedora has a Firewall by default, and why the
default configuration has been chosen.

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Jesse Keating
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