-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Hello,
The Fedora Docs team is planning on writing a Firewall Guide, to explain what a firewall does, how it functions, and how to administer it. For the initial explanation, I think that some visuals would be very helpful to the reader.
Right now, the best allegory I can contrive is a post office. The outside network is.. well, anyone who might send mail. The postman is the firewall, the post office boxes are ports, and the customers who get mail in the boxes are listening services.
Is there anyone on the design team that would like to hammer the idea into something useful, and work with us on creating imagery for this guide?
- -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize@fedoraproject.org
Hi Pete,
Unfortunately I'm a bit swomped at the moment (might have some time in the future if you're still in need), so can't help out with the graphics themselves right now, although thought I'd throw a view on your analogy your way.
The Post Office idea is good, however personally I'd see the firewall as more of the post office distribution (or sorting) centre. Anyone can send you mail, which ends up at a distribution centre, this centre filters your mail, deciding what gets passed through to your address, returned to sender or forwarded elsewhere (based on your personal rules for allowed 'mail'). The postman then arrives at your house with all mail the distribution centre has allowed through and delivers the mail which matches the mailboxes on your door which are open ('listening'), all other mail without open services (or open letter boxes for this analogy) are rejected.
In this analogy I realise that everyone would have 65,535 plus potential ports on their door, but in the graphics you would label each letterbox with a port number and only show open (listening) letterboxes on the door, which all mail has labelled with your address (your IP address). So the address on the envolope would be:
Mr P Sherman 127.0.0.1:42
The IP representing your address on an envelope, the port representing the letterbox on your door.
Ping me a message if this doesn't make sense or if you want to run through anything else :)
M
Matt Allen Design, Development, Interactivity & Photography
Twitter: @sdmix Skype: itsmattallen Web: itsmattallen.co.uk / sdmix.in
On 04/10/2014 20:21, Pete Travis wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Hello,
The Fedora Docs team is planning on writing a Firewall Guide, to explain what a firewall does, how it functions, and how to administer it. For the initial explanation, I think that some visuals would be very helpful to the reader.
Right now, the best allegory I can contrive is a post office. The outside network is.. well, anyone who might send mail. The postman is the firewall, the post office boxes are ports, and the customers who get mail in the boxes are listening services.
Is there anyone on the design team that would like to hammer the idea into something useful, and work with us on creating imagery for this guide?
- -- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize@fedoraproject.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUMEi+AAoJEL1wZM0+jj2ZpQ8H/3uH3tgCGQXkVbPIUlIx+/X4 LPUV5F3YobTw/UoJXqDI8quvO+vhHUg9IJbeVrldkc4hQ6kg5n3nYDqyBZYgnhc2 oPNF531fUt0cK54CcvqbAds7//+GXrLPndFyBD1qx6GkvWb+GQroHdXL13kQqGce JHHaO5cNyFTpMqkqLpB+D+BssLtCBKQhMM+q7KJZPNznty+tm3EuzqLNqGBXqX7L zAQ5KNPqVU+sZS2phJHplG/C9Xj75gKeKmE1gKRL/rYAWHCAolasmmfcHZ8skISW 9KW7cu9TQYkVT3WB8yTIqHOTe1ngIUyd2Kku3fXPSrF1QEsoag8lK637jS9/7K0= =iQGb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
On 10/16/2014 03:27 PM, Matt Allen wrote:
Hi Pete,
Unfortunately I'm a bit swomped at the moment (might have some time in
the future if you're still in need), so can't help out with the graphics themselves right now, although thought I'd throw a view on your analogy your way.
The Post Office idea is good, however personally I'd see the firewall
as more of the post office distribution (or sorting) centre. Anyone can send you mail, which ends up at a distribution centre, this centre filters your mail, deciding what gets passed through to your address, returned to sender or forwarded elsewhere (based on your personal rules for allowed 'mail'). The postman then arrives at your house with all mail the distribution centre has allowed through and delivers the mail which matches the mailboxes on your door which are open ('listening'), all other mail without open services (or open letter boxes for this analogy) are rejected.
In this analogy I realise that everyone would have 65,535 plus
potential ports on their door, but in the graphics you would label each letterbox with a port number and only show open (listening) letterboxes on the door, which all mail has labelled with your address (your IP address). So the address on the envolope would be:
Mr P Sherman 127.0.0.1:42
The IP representing your address on an envelope, the port representing
the letterbox on your door.
Ping me a message if this doesn't make sense or if you want to run
through anything else :)
M
Matt Allen Design, Development, Interactivity & Photography
Twitter: @sdmix Skype: itsmattallen Web: itsmattallen.co.uk / sdmix.in
On 04/10/2014 20:21, Pete Travis wrote: Hello,
The Fedora Docs team is planning on writing a Firewall Guide, to explain what a firewall does, how it functions, and how to administer it. For the initial explanation, I think that some visuals would be very helpful to the reader.
Right now, the best allegory I can contrive is a post office. The outside network is.. well, anyone who might send mail. The postman is the firewall, the post office boxes are ports, and the customers who get mail in the boxes are listening services.
Is there anyone on the design team that would like to hammer the idea into something useful, and work with us on creating imagery for this guide?
-- - -- Pete
Hey Matt,
Your analogy is close to the same. Instead of PO Boxes, there are letterboxes; you have a distribution center in place of the local post office staff doing the sorting. Having spent some time observing in such places, I think your view has the potential to be more appropriate as the discussion progresses. I do worry that detailed comparisons to logistical organizations could grow to be just as esoteric to the layman - but that's where the graphics come in :)
We probably won't start on this in earnest until after the F21 release, but I find that some time with the idea rattling around in my head helps. Feel free to jump in as much as you like, the content will live at https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/firewall-guide.git/ .
Hi Pete
I see the Firewall as the Customs and Immigration gatekeeper.
The other view is a grading system for a product, where some items are rejected, and others are sorted into bins.
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada
From: Pete Travis lists@petetravis.com To: Fedora Design Team design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [Design-team] Firewall Graphics
On 10/16/2014 03:27 PM, Matt Allen wrote:
Hi Pete,
Unfortunately I'm a bit swomped at the moment (might have
some time in the future if you're still in need), so can't help out with the graphics themselves right now, although thought I'd throw a view on your analogy your way.
The Post Office idea is good, however personally I'd see the
firewall as more of the post office distribution (or sorting) centre. Anyone can send you mail, which ends up at a distribution centre, this centre filters your mail, deciding what gets passed through to your address, returned to sender or forwarded elsewhere (based on your personal rules for allowed 'mail'). The postman then arrives at your house with all mail the distribution centre has allowed through and delivers the mail which matches the mailboxes on your door which are open ('listening'), all other mail without open services (or open letter boxes for this analogy) are rejected.
In this analogy I realise that everyone would have 65,535
plus potential ports on their door, but in the graphics you would label each letterbox with a port number and only show open (listening) letterboxes on the door, which all mail has labelled with your address (your IP address). So the address on the envolope would be:
Mr P Sherman 127.0.0.1:42
The IP representing your address on an envelope, the port
representing the letterbox on your door.
Ping me a message if this doesn't make sense or if you want
to run through anything else :)
M
Matt Allen Design, Development, Interactivity & Photography
Twitter: @sdmix Skype: itsmattallen Web: itsmattallen.co.uk / sdmix.in
On 04/10/2014 20:21, Pete Travis wrote:
Hello,
The Fedora Docs team is planning on writing a Firewall Guide, to
explain
what a firewall does, how it functions, and how to administer it.
For
the initial explanation, I think that some visuals would be very
helpful
to the reader.
Right now, the best allegory I can contrive is a post office. The outside network is.. well, anyone who might send mail. The
postman is
the firewall, the post office boxes are ports, and the customers
who get
mail in the boxes are listening services.
Is there anyone on the design team that would like to hammer the
idea
into something useful, and work with us on creating imagery for
this guide?
-- - -- Pete
Hey Matt,
Your analogy is close to the same. Instead of PO Boxes, there are
letterboxes; you have a distribution center in place of the local post office staff doing the sorting. Having spent some time observing in such places, I think your view has the potential to be more appropriate as the discussion progresses. I do worry that detailed comparisons to logistical organizations could grow to be just as esoteric to the layman - but that's where the graphics come in :)
We probably won't start on this in earnest until after the F21
release, but I find that some time with the idea rattling around in my head helps. Feel free to jump in as much as you like, the content will live at https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/firewall-guide.git/ .
-- -- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize@fedoraproject.org
design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org
-
Leslie S Satenstein -
Matt Allen -
Pete Travis