About F19 Firewall

Thomas Woerner twoerner at redhat.com
Tue Sep 24 16:45:32 UTC 2013


On 09/21/2013 12:08 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 20.09.2013 22:23, Björn Persson wrote:
>>
>> Anyone can broadcast an SSID. How does FirewallD authenticate the
>> network connection?
>>
>
> FirewallD is not responsible for such authentication/AP validation.
> Firewall as such is not meant to assure you're connecting to where you want.
>
NM tells firewalld where to put the interfaces bound to a connection. 
firewalld is not doing anything with SSIDs and other connection related 
information.

>
> Mateusz Marzantowicz
>
Thomas


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