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From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:15:01 +0100

> 
> Dear All
> 
> Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open
> selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs
> installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul

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Paul, shorewall can do what you desire. Go to; mcc > security > firewall, and 
click on the advanced radio button on the bottom. That will open up an area 
where you can specify special ports to open.
HTH.
Best regards.

--Angus

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around 
in awareness." -- James Thurber

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