Re: firestarter

2015-09-30 Thread Alex Vong
Info. I'll look for another IP table manager. > I'm always open to suggestions. > > On 09/29/2015 04:55 PM, Alex Vong wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> You are lucky not to able to install it! firestarter contained a grave >> bug that will make booting impossib

Re: firestarter

2015-09-29 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Paul, You are lucky not to able to install it! firestarter contained a grave bug that will make booting impossible <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772715>. Besides, the package was being abandoned by the upstream developers <https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firesta

Re: Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-02 Thread Kailash
gt;Thanks for all possible answers > > From the Debian description at [1]: > > "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical > features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into > more modern alternatives such as gufw.

Re: Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2013/12/1 Andreas Rönnquist > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, > Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > >Why? > > > >Thanks for all possible answers > > From the Debian description at [1]: > > "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical >

Re: Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >Why? > >Thanks for all possible answers From the Debian description at [1]: "Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into more moder

Firestarter Events always empty

2013-12-01 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Why? Thanks for all possible answers

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-28 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/27/2010 07:23 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I'm inclined to call it a bug in firestarter, but to be sure, test it out with Network Manager instead of wicd. See if you have the same problem. I think you will, which will indicate the problem is with firestarter (or possibly with the wa

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Owens
ce eth0 inet static > -------8< > > For grins, I reconfigured /etc/network/interfaces on one of the single > network profile systems and, sure enough, firestarter fails to launch > the firewall. If I switch back to a

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-26 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
iface eth0 inet static ---8< For grins, I reconfigured /etc/network/interfaces on one of the single network profile systems and, sure enough, firestarter fails to launch the firewall. If I switch back to a normal interfaces file, the

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-24 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/24/2010 07:45 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:20:59PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: This is a pretty sophisticated firewall front end, allowing for connection sharing and allowing you to limit service connections to specific IP addresses or IP address ranges, but it's not

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:20:59PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > This is a pretty sophisticated firewall front end, allowing for > connection sharing and allowing you to limit service connections to > specific IP addresses or IP address ranges, but it's not working > reliably for me. And

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-24 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/23/2010 02:38 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: ... I'm guessing I should try to run firestarter in the Pre-connection Script field first, and then fall back to using the Post-connection Script field if Pre-connection fails. Now I just have to decide which of the firestarter scripts it

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
The fields are: Pre-connection Script Post-connection Script Pre-disconnection Script Post-disconnection Script I'm guessing I should try to run firestarter in the Pre-connection Script field first, and then fall back to using the Post-connection Script field if Pre-connection fails. Now I

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/23/2010 12:15 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Starting Network connection manager: wicd. startpar: service(s) returned failure: firestarter ... failed! Running scripts in rc2.d/ took xx seconds. Ah, you're using wicd. For

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > Starting Network connection manager: wicd. > startpar: service(s) returned failure: firestarter ... failed! > Running scripts in rc2.d/ took xx seconds. > Ah, you're using wicd. For each network conn

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/23/2010 08:16 AM, Rob Owens wrote: What if the network isn't up when firestarter is asked to start? Would it start anyway? Would it fail to start and log an error? Or would it fail silently? I'm not sure of the answers to the above. Maybe you could try shutting down yo

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/23/2010 04:57 AM, Greg Madden wrote: Runlevel 2 is the default runlevel. Look for a link: '/etc/rc2.d/Sxxfirestarter -> ../init.d/firestarter' Hi, Greg. Thanks to you and Rob I'm getting a bit of an education. I found /etc/rc2.d/S19firestarter. It does not contai

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:03:59PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > As root I ran > > /etc/init.d/firestarter start > > and I got > > Starting the Firestarter firewall > > I ran > > iptables -L > > and I could see that iptables is properly doing "it

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Greg Madden
llivan wrote: > >>>> Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > >>>> started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see > >>>> something about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance to read it. > >&g

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 07:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 08:18 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: There is an /etc/init.d/firestarter file and an /etc/firestarter/configuration file (that later one being present in its directory with a whole bunch of other files.). After a fresh

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > There is an /etc/init.d/firestarter file and an > /etc/firestarter/configuration file (that later one being present in its > directory with a whole bunch of other files.). > After a fresh reboot, with firestar

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > >> started) at differen

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
I want in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the Firestarter user interface during a given session. Once I log off (restart not necessary) the rules are apparently reset to the default. You can check this by running (as root): iptables -L If there are no firewall rules

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something > about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance to read it. You can use &#x

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the >>> Firestarter user interface during a given session. Once I log off >>> (restart not necessary) the rules are apparently reset to the default. >>> >> You can check this by running (as root): >&

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the Firestarter user interface duri

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want > in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the > Firestarter user interface during a given session. Once I l

change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
I'm running Firestarter 1.0.3 on Debian testing (both systems involved in this message). A number of months ago I was in a situation where I wanted to establish an SSH connection from my notebook to a desktop system. Because the network on which this desktop system resides is less

Re: Replacement for firestarter?

2009-11-18 Thread green
Todd A. Jacobs wrote at 2009-11-10 14:30 -0600: > I'm not really looking for a static firewall builder (e.g. fwbuilder or > lokkit), but something that approximates the "allow/deny current > traffic" features of firestarter. I am new to netfilter, etc. and have been do

Replacement for firestarter?

2009-11-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I really like using firestarter, as the realtime traffic logs and allow/deny interface are exceedingly useful to me. However, I know that it's been dead upstream for a long time, and I was hoping someone knew of a well-maintained replacement. I'm not really looking for a static firewa

Re: Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.[SOLVED]

2009-03-22 Thread Daryl Styrk
Daryl Styrk wrote: I'm attempting to bridge wlan0 with eth0. I've done this successfully in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. However I'm running into some issues trying to set this up now. What I have done in the past is set eth0 static, and enabled internet connec

Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.

2009-03-21 Thread Daryl Styrk
I'm attempting to bridge wlan0 with eth0. I've done this successfully in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. However I'm running into some issues trying to set this up now. What I have done in the past is set eth0 static, and enabled internet connection sharing in fire

Re: iptables/firestarter

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 16 2009, Jeff Soules wrote: > Personally, I do this: > > Ensure that you have your firewall rules set up as you wish them. > Then, edit /etc/network/interfaces to add the following: > > # Bring up firewall > pre-up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules > > # And save fw state on shu

Re: iptables/firestarter

2009-01-16 Thread Jeff Soules
b server, so >> I >> could share photos. nginx & gallery2 are working just fine, easy to setup and >> use! The problem is, I just rebooted, and I have to rerun the iptables >> command to open port 80 for my web server again. I see there is firestarter >> on my system b

Re: iptables/firestarter

2009-01-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
web server, so I > could share photos. nginx & gallery2 are working just fine, easy to setup and > use! The problem is, I just rebooted, and I have to rerun the iptables > command to open port 80 for my web server again. I see there is firestarter > on my system but it isn't runn

iptables/firestarter

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
e is firestarter on my system but it isn't running, and I don't think I ever set it up. All I want is for my web port rule to start every time I boot, but I can't find anywhere in the system where iptables is saved, or where to put this one line rule so it starts every time. wiki.deb

Re: Firestarter dumping blocked events to console

2008-04-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/09/2008 10:24 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hi there, I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great except for one minor annoyance... Every time I connect to the campus network I

Re: Firestarter dumping blocked events to console

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:24:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty > much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great > except for one minor annoyance... ... &

Firestarter dumping blocked events to console

2008-04-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great except for one minor annoyance... Every time I connect to the campus network I get bombarded with broadcast SMB packets...fro my

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 2 2007, Darko wrote: > > Kmenu - Debian - Applications - Network - Monitoring - FIRESTARTER > > This part is missing > > Monitoring - FIRESTARTER someone mentioned installing the application call menu: sudo aptitude install menu then run update-menus if firest

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-02 Thread Darko
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: try going to the start menu-Debian-applications-network-monitoring-firestarter I got your same error when I try it from a konsole, but it works from the menu But where from the menu i can't find it on my kde if i try

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread David
Darko wrote: snip But where from the menu i can't find it on my kde Install the package 'menu', then after any apt update/upgrade, type 'update-menus' while still at the command line and firestarter is one of the many packages that conform to that requirement.

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: > > try going to the start > > menu-Debian-applications-network-monitoring-firestarter > > > > I got your same error when I try it from a konsole, but it works from the > > menu > > But where from the menu i can't fi

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Darko
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: You normally don't need --reinstall, that causes the package to be fully removed before reinstallation. I did and i cant start it from default user and after su it says: (firestarter:) gtk warning canot open di

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:37:15 +, Darko wrote: > Patter wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: >>> >>>> I deinstaled gnome and now I can&#x

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: > > You normally don't need --reinstall, that causes the package to be fully > > removed before reinstallation. > > > >   > > I did and i cant start it  from default user and after su it says: > (firestarter:) gtk warnin

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Darko
Patter wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to run it under KDE apt-get install --reinstall firestarter You nor

Re: Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: >> I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to >> run it under KDE >> >> > > apt-get install --reinstall firesta

Re: Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: > I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to > run it under KDE > > apt-get install --reinstall firestarter - -- If programmers deserve to be rewa

Re: Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread David
Darko wrote: I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to run it under KDE Just reinstall it. It should drag in all the libs necessary to run it without having to run a full Gnome install. I don't have a full Gnome desktop, I simply don't need it.

Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread Darko
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Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:50:17 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO > > firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though &

separating x client from x server (was: Firestarter VS Shorewall)

2007-03-04 Thread hendrik
e small grey things from ufos), > some stuff from X, too. > > That is the reason why I talk about ca. 70 MB. > FireStarter is small. But to start the gui, the > system wants some other files. > At least, I thought so until now. > > When I say "apt-get install firestar

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread John Hasler
Andreas writes: > Do I understand you right, that I do not have to download these X-files, > if I intend to export the display to another computer ? You need some libraries but no X-server. Firestarter 1.0.3-1.3 dependencies: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), l

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:51:48AM +0100, Andreas Duffner wrote: > > Do I understand you right, that I do not have to > download these X-files, if I intend to export the display > to another computer ? > > That would be really nice. > You need the xbase-clients package at a very minimum. You ss

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andreas Duffner
t the ones with the small grey things from ufos), some stuff from X, too. That is the reason why I talk about ca. 70 MB. FireStarter is small. But to start the gui, the system wants some other files. At least, I thought so until now. When I say "apt-get install firestarter" it will get fir

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO > firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though this > is a bad idea on a server. You could run X on another system. People te

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andreas Duffner
Andrei Popescu wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. With firestarter? How? [snip X11 forwarding stuff] If *that* isn't shooting a fly with a canon, than I don't know what is. [snip rant against console users] You *really* do not

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:09:10 +0100 Andreas Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>>> I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. > >>> With firestarter? How? > > > > [snip X11 forwarding stuff] > > > &g

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andreas Duffner
Andrei Popescu wrote: I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. With firestarter? How? [snip X11 forwarding stuff] If *that* isn't shooting a fly with a canon, than I don't know what is. Mmm. So why do you use shorewall at all ? It is like using a pistol against

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:03:51 +0100 Andreas Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. > > > > With firestarter? How? [snip X11 forwarding stuff] If *that* isn't shooting a fly with a canon, than I don't

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 1 Mar 2007 08:41:10 -0800, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? Sho

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Andreas Duffner writes: > WebInterface... So you have a Web server running on your firewall. Not good. > ...so you do not *have* to install some software. You wouldn't have to install software to use ssh. > [QOS] would be really cool. I'd like to have it. Linux already has it. -- John Hasler

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. With firestarter? How? On my side in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (that is for the client) ForwardX11 yes that way you dont have to say ssh -X bla bla on the other side in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (that is for the server) X11Forwarding yes Then I

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
Jordi wrote: Anyway, please give me opinions about the router by SMC Networks: 7904WBRA2 http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1588 First I have no wide knowledge of routers. I only know some. But I can tell you what I think while reading the data sheet. Perhaps i

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:25:12 +0100 Andreas Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I just want a working firewall. > And firestarter does this job. > I do not know about complex setups with multiple servers. > I am just using one server, client etc at the time. > The firew

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Jordi
Thanks Andreas. I agree with most that you said, as I am very pragmatic on my needs. I think I will buy the router I said, wich looks a very strong router from security point of view, and plus install firestarter and some other utility if I need. And things sometimes are not so complex. For

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Peter writes: > Or, if you like ease of use (great web based GUI)... I do not want a Web server running on my router. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 3-mrt-2007, at 14:52, John Hasler wrote: Jordi writes: To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- Or, if you like eas

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Jordi writes: > To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific > hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:08:36AM +, David Hart wrote: > > If you need to manage a half-dozen zones the chances are that you'll > be doing packet filtering on specialized hardware so shorewall will > be of no use. > Well, chances are you don't know what you are talking about. Please go look

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Andreas Duffner
Jordi wrote: I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? I can only tell about firestarter. Perhaps it helps a bit. First

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Jordi
Thanks for the links I asked in the Ubuntu forum too and they say me that it may be unnecessary to combine hardware firewall and software firewall (iptables or any other that uses it). But they said I can do, if I am paranoid. And as you said, the correct place to stop an intruder is BEFORE they c

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:08:36AM +, David Hart wrote: > On Thu 2007-03-01 16:05:32 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > > > > > > > John, that seems to complicated

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-03 Thread David Hart
On Thu 2007-03-01 16:05:32 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > > > > > John, that seems to complicated for me, but seems good as it is a > > > hardware firewall. > > > Rove

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:25:33PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I saw two good firewalls: > >

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi wrote: > Oh yes, > > I will take all that is said in exam, and learn all to some degree. > But I have so much work on Java, php, and virtual reality modelling > languages, plus build the site, so I think I better build a simple > server, as stro

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-02 Thread Jordi
Oh yes, I will take all that is said in exam, and learn all to some degree. But I have so much work on Java, php, and virtual reality modelling languages, plus build the site, so I think I better build a simple server, as strong as I can. But can't spend months or years learning, I need to start d

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > I take note, John and Roberto. > > > > John, that seems to complicated for me, but seems good as it is a > > hardware firewall. > > Roverto, seems you like to do a control

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:56:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > I take note, John and Roberto. > > John, that seems to complicated for me, but seems good as it is a > hardware firewall. > Roverto, seems you like to do a control of all parameters, you must be > an expert. I will try to do as you say, and

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: >> Hello >> >> I saw two good firewalls: >> - Firestarter wich is easy >> - Shorewall wich seems versatile >> >> Wich is bes

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
I take note, John and Roberto. John, that seems to complicated for me, but seems good as it is a hardware firewall. Roverto, seems you like to do a control of all parameters, you must be an expert. I will try to do as you say, and learn a bit. Thanks for your opinions. Jordi On 1 mar, 19:50, "R

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:50:02AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > I saw that shorewall can have a GUI if I also install Webmin. > > Is Webmin a good tool to install? has some kind of disavantage? Is it > better to not use webmin? > Personally, I don't like webmin as it insulates too much from you. If you

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread John Stoffel
Jordi> I saw two good firewalls: Jordi> - Firestarter wich is easy Jordi> - Shorewall wich seems versatile Just to be contrary, I like and use m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch) at home in a WRAP board. Very nice, very quiet, plenty of performance. Nice web based interface, boots off comp

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestarter as

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
I saw that shorewall can have a GUI if I also install Webmin. Is Webmin a good tool to install? has some kind of disavantage? Is it better to not use webmin? Thanks Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Thanks Roberto I will do then the effort and try to install and use Shorewall. Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestar

Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hello I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? Just this Thanks Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-25 Thread Default User
Thanks to both Florian Kulzer and John Fleming. Both answers work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:09:14 -0500, Default User wrote: > Very strange. > > I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the > routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them to to > the tty consoles, where they overwrite part of the

Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-23 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Default User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:09 PM Subject: Firestarter bug? Very strange. I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the routine periodic dhcp send events from my router,

Firestarter bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Default User
Very strange. I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them to to the tty consoles, where they overwrite part of the screen. These are the same as what shows up in the Firestarter "events" scr

Re: Firestarter Blocks NetBIOS broadcasts on local LAN

2006-06-05 Thread Dominique Brazziel
This behavior occurs on boxes behind a router with only one interface. The problem is in the firestarter control script (/etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh) and fixed by fixing up the $BCAST variable after testing some other variables to make a best guess about whether or not the machine is behind a

Firestarter Blocks NetBIOS broadcasts on local LAN

2006-05-30 Thread Dominique Brazziel
With the default setting of "Block broadcasts from external network", machines on the local net (using SAMBA) never get NetBIOS broadcasts answered for the local network, so the other machines and even the Linux machine itself cannot find the Linux host. On Linux nmblookup fails to find itself. I

Re: Firestarter not starting

2006-05-24 Thread John Talbut
.. What I now realise I am after is just an applet that produces a reassuring icon in the system tray that shows the state of the firewall. I do not need the Firestarter GUI to be running if there is any other way of doing this. In the mean time, when I get round to it (it won't be for a we

Re: Firestarter not starting

2006-05-23 Thread John Talbut
Well, of course, Firestarter is not the firewall, iptables is. I do not see how to check whether iptables is running - maybe it runs all the time as much of it is in the kernel and running Firestarter merely updates the configuration. However, it can clearly be in a stopped condition

Re: Firestarter not starting

2006-05-22 Thread Ken Wahl
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:50:01PM +0100, John Talbut wrote: > Thanks for the further ideas, Ken. > > Firestarter certainly does not seem to be starting on bootup. Using ps > as root gives no entries for Firestarter after booting, whereas it does > once I get Firestarter to

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