About F19 Firewall

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Tue Sep 17 09:33:22 UTC 2013


Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>Wireless networks have unique "names" and are represented as different
>connections on NetworkManager (network connection != interface). For
>network named "MyHomeNet" one can associate Home zone in NetworkManager
>and for network "CoffeShowHotSpot" one assigns Public zone. You don't
>have to change anything once it's assigned.

So when some innocent-looking guy is sitting in the café with a
smartphone posing as an access point with an SSID of "MyHomeNet", will
your Fedora laptop connect to it, switch to the Home zone, and assume
that everybody on that network is friendly?

-- 
Björn Persson

Sent from my computer.
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