On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 04:45 -0500, Sean wrote: > On Sat, December 17, 2005 3:53 am, Michael A. Peters said: > > > Users behind NAT isn't a Fedora problem. They need to port forward the > > BT ports - but that can go on something like fedorafaq.org (or whatever > > it is). > > Well Fedora could help the situation by making sure its default bt client > supports UPnP so that a compliant nat router (like most linksys) will > automatically be configured without the user needing to deal with it at > all. I would NOT want that. I've got that turned off on my Linksys - I don't want any ports at all open for forwarding that I haven't specifically opened for forwarding. Last thing I want is someone at my house running some program that opens up port forwarding on my router. > > > Firewall is a problem. A nice gui like firestarter (not necessarily > > firestarter, but something like it) for configuring the Fedora Firewall > > would be nice - with common app/port selections so users don't > > necessarily have to care what port ranges are used for what (unless they > > want to meddle with the defaults) > > > > until I decided to go with Linksys for my router, firestarter is what I > > used for NAT - it has a really nice interface for controlling what ports > > are allowed in etc. > > It would be nice if the user just had to answer a simple question like > "Would you like to open the ports needed for BT in your firewall > configuration?". That has to be done as root, so it has to either be in Anaconda - or in a system-config tool. I personally vote for the latter, I think Anaconda is too complicated as it is. OS X (at least 10.1 - haven't installed anything later) has a sweet and simple installer. But anyway, that's just my opinion. Linus Torvalds will probably tear me a new one for wanting an installer targeted at dumb users ;) > > The same problem exists when trying to configure many other network apps > too. It would be great to have a general framework for apps to request > open ports from the firewall and have the user just get a popup so that > she can agree or cancel. Perhaps this could all be done over dbus? Does > something like this already exist? The problem with that is that root is required. I know some Windows firewalls do that - but only if you are running as admin. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
