[CS-FSLUG] Firewall query OR Switching Your Better Half to Linux

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

I was still a newly wed when I convinced my wife to switch, but my wife
has become quite happy with Linux. Really, she took to it well. Most of
the stigma that it wouldn't work was a result of me playing with things
all the time. I've stopped messing around too much on the main computer
and it stabilized significantly.

The only annoyance that I hear about much anymore is the speed decrease
when I switched it to Ubuntu from Gentoo. She now occasionally chants
"Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo" in my ear when the printer or the Internet are
acting up. The internet is a really old Linksys device dieing and the
printer is usually not working because I forgot to plug it in after
using it on my notebook or someone hit the "Cancel" button which acts
oddly. Requires a printer power cycle to reset. Both have nothing to do
with Linux or the distro. :-)

JSR/

-----Original Message-----

Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:

> If you wanted to just watch traffic going out your firewall from you
> wife's computer (assuming your win machine is your wife's and it goes
> through your computer as a firewall) you could run a line like:
> Tcpdump -I eth0 'host 192.168.1.125' to show only packets going in or
> out eth0 related to host with IP ending in 125. You could also add
'and
> not port 80' to filter out the http traffic.

No, we are both connected to the supplied router, which has its own
wimpy firewall. I have only one ethernet port, so we are independent.
(Shhhhh. I'm trying to find excuses to convince her she needs Linux. I'm
giving an honest effort to finding solutions, but only through her own
machine.)