F19 Firewall

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Sep 26 14:40:00 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:00:03PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> It does; in my view the primary problem it fixes is iptables being at
> too low level of abstraction.  The question "is port 22 open" can be
> only answered for itpables by interpreting a Turing-complete language.

Or as everyone does it: by testing if a connection can be made. And,
frankly, if that test passes, do we care what mechnism is enforcing it?



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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>


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