About F19 Firewall

Fri Sep 20 20:59:13 UTC 2013

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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:23:27PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> Thomas Woerner wrote:
> >If for
> >example you are using wifi connections at home, work, .. you can bind
> >these to the (for you) appropriate zone. For example work for your
> >work wifi connection. It will be used only if you are connecting to
> >your work wifi connection (it is bound to the SSID).
> 
> Anyone can broadcast an SSID. How does FirewallD authenticate the
> network connection?

Authentication is based on WEP/WPA/WPA2 passphrase, possibly a MAC address (BSSID), and 802.1 authentication.  Much of that is spoofable, however.  This is wireless, however.  Hardline connections will always be a bit more secure and the auto zone there will make more sense.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project

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