mini firewall

[ailef]

did u think about an option like: i open my server and when someone wants to connect u got a popup saying do u let this machine connect : yes or no ?
like a mini-FW for HFS.

[Usario]

I decided that option:

somebody (guest, not user) wants enter our store, writes our IP in browser. When server answered, it give user an window in browser - "please, enter your name" and guest enter his name. We look this name and click YES or NO - if NO, user see 404 or 403 error, and if yes - look through our store.

It was for guests. Registered (allowed) users when goes to store, entering theirs login and password and go into without our confirmation.

Sorry for my english.

[rejetto]

did u think about an option like: i open my server and when someone wants to connect u got a popup saying do u let this machine connect : yes or no ?
like a mini-FW for HFS.

it seems an interesting option.
such a feature would build 2 rules in the ban list: one rule for the accepted IPs, one for the rejected ones.
what do other people think about it?

[Foggy]

not sure if I would use it but it is an interesting option none the less, and it could possibly be useful to someone.

[TSG]

Its a good idea if you feel you need to control every ip that connects.

[bacter]

If somebody has nothing else to do as acting like a watchdog for 24 hours, it might be usefull.

But what usefull information will be there to decide thisone ore thatone can or can't pass? An IP-address and perhaps some name introduced by the user?

If you leave the activity icon on the taskbar, you see what's going on, and a then looking at the log you can see behaviour you don't like and so you at most know why to ban somebody.

A yes/no feature that fills your screen up with little windows when you are not in front of your screen don't seem very usefull from my point of view.

[rejetto]

ailef, can you tell more about how you would use it? LAN or internet?