Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

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2014-04-17 23:51 GMT+02:00 Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx>:
> To be perfectly clear, vast majority of network applications work perfectly
> fine.  Network *servers* need manual intervention.

Not just servers.  Clients that do broadcast or multicast discovery of
other systems acting as servers can also fail with a firewall enabled.
The classic case is SMB browsing.

Sorry, you're right.  I was thinking of an idealized "outgoing-connections-only" firewall as opposed to the defaults we actually have.
    Mirek
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