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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:15:12PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > It's a minimalistic script for very small installs -- most of us use
> > shorewall or agt.  Belxjander made it, and it's not bad for what it's
> > intended (deny-as-much-as-possible-while-allowing-outgoing-connections).
> >
> > I wouldn't dump it unless you talk to him first.
> 
> I believe we were going to use it on our ISOs so that, when networking
> is started, the box isn't open to any Joe Blow hanging around the
> network.

We don't have any services on startup by default -- I don't think a 
firewall is needed on the iso.

Seth

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