Re: Automatic Firewall

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:34:01PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> I think it does not add so much respective to the present situation
> and in addition it is unapplicable: there are some ADSL modems who
> force the computer to use an address in the 10.x.x.x range for
> interfacing with them and that means that the ethernet card with an
> address in the 10.x.x.x is in direct contact with the Internet and,
> according to your proposal, unfirewalled.

It adds a fair bit if you add a "Masquerade" tick box to the existing
network configuration bits.