> actually yes, if your machine is not used as a router and has no two
> sides. one might use the firewall option to keep out unwanted sites.
I used for this purpose just some additional routes: The unwanted sites were
routed via a loopback gateway (a very nice way to check the behaviour of
your application if all packets get somehow lost *evilgrin*). So for this
one you don't need firewalling.
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