Re: firewall for a client

["Víctor A. Ramos" <itchysoft@yahoo.es>]

 --- Ralf Döblitz <ralf@asco.de> escribió: 
> --On Dienstag, Dezember 07, 2004 02:07:58 +0100 "Víctor A. Ramos" 
 
> mldonkey is a server, so if you run that program you *have* a service bound 
> to the external interface - which contradicts the precondition above.
> 
> As long as you do not run any server processes you don't need a packet 
> filter.
> 
> Ralf

There are many programs which open ports by default in a Debian installation (an nmap localhost
could be very revealing), and I want to control the traffic of my PC, that's all... with servers,
without servers... put a firewall on a system which is connected to the net, is a good security
method.

Please, stop worrying about it... and thank you all, really ;)

Regards

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