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		sampa on Jan 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opensnitch, application level interactive firewall... afaik, main problem on linux for application firewalls was that no program id (pid) is tied directly to every network connection. am I wrong?

egberts1 on Jan 23, 2023 [–]

Yes and no.

Yea, for outbound packets.

Nope, for inbound packets.

BSD and Windows provides both; Linux, not so much.

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