(part 1)
After the experience of this thread, a tool I'd like to see is something
like netstat or ss or the network activity (bottom panel) of the
ksysguard, except it would show:
* incoming traffic after firewall screening but before the "passed"
traffic reaches the rest of the system, and
* outgoing traffic after firewall screening but before the "passed"
traffic goes out to the modem. Using crude diagrams:
modem ----> firewall ----> new tool ----> work station consumer of data
(browser, dnf, e-mail client, etc.)
work station producer of data ----> firewall ----> new tool ----> modem
I'm saying this with the faint hope that someone on this list knows
somebody who knows somebody who ....
who knows somebody who (for example) is a university computer science
professor who has a senior class needing a good team project. I think
such a tool could be very useful.
(part 2)
I opened this thread believing that incoming network traffic was f-a-r
less than what it really is, and not realizing that ksysguard (and
netstat and ss) were showing network traffic before firewall screening
rather than after firewall screening. Yow! What an eye-opening this has
been. I'm glad that nothing malicious seems to be on my work station.
So the mysterious internet activity is there, but the incoming is being
blocked by the firewall, and the outgoing is the firewall's rejections.
I thank the 9 list members
... and Ed's puddy tats! ... (*)
for their time, effort, and patience(!) trying to help me.
I've tagged this thread SOLVED.
Bill.
(*) (for the younger list members) "Puddy Tat": from Sylvester and
Tweety Pie cartoons - Tweety Pie's word for "cat".
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
