Re: End-user laptop firewall available?
On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 10:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I chose phrasing of subject line to emphasize some peculiarities
> of my needs.
>
> End-user emphasizes:
> - I am *NOT* an expert
> - my system is never intended to be a "server"
>
Without any services running, you won't really have any ports open. Of
course some user style services (like samba) may be running. I always
like running 'lsof -i' as root to see what ports / services are open.
> Laptop indicates:
> - small standalone system intended to operate primarily
> *WITHOUT* any networking
>
> When connected to internet it will be:
> - primarily for browsing, email, Usenet
> - occasionally used for downloading small files using HTTP
> *NOT* (never?) FTP
>
The theory is if that's all you do on a Linux system, then you probably
don't need to put in any firewall rules.
> The "fly in ointment" will be:
> The typical internet connection will be with a USB dial-up modem.
> When I desire to browse complex website or download a large
> set of files,
> I will carry it to a local library and use a WiFi connection.
>
> A couple months of reading has left me confused as to a suitable
> firewall.
>
> Any help/direction appreciated.
>
>
If you're paranoid, I'd go with arno-iptables-firewall. It really is
easy to set up, even though it's all done through either debconf, or
text files.
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