firewall?

[Johan Sch]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 04:40:25 +1000
Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:27:49AM +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski said
> > > What would it actually *do*?  There are no services listening on
> > > external interfaces by default.
> > 
> >  Blocks all incoming tarffic. Not the smartest firewall. ;-) But it's
> > not XP mailing list, let's go back on the subject of Ubuntu.
> 
> Well, I was wondering what the people who want a firewall on Ubuntu want
> it to do...there's no ports open to block, so all it could really do is
> sit there looking suave.
> 
> -rob
> 
> -- 
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new to ubuntu. 
Seem not to need a firewall. Would ubuntu be good as a gateway?
Thanks
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Johan Sch
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