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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Firestarter

Does Firestarter automatically start the firewall when booting?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: Firestarter

Add iptables to your deamon array in rc.conf.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Firestarter

I think problems can occur with firestarter when you have any backgrounded daemons and don't have firestarter as the last daemon, so watch out for that.

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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Re: Firestarter

How can I test if it is running?  Or if iptables is running?

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-12 00:32:41)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: Firestarter

From the Firestarter documentation:  Q: How can I get Firestarter to load automatically when I log in as a regular user? 
http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php#trayicon

Gauvenator

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Re: Firestarter

From the Firestarter documentation:  Q: How can I get Firestarter to load automatically when I log in as a regular user? 
http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php#trayicon

I don't have sudo tho.

I don't necessarily need the firestarter GUI, I just want to know if it is in the background or not.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Firestarter

Block all outgoing connections with firestarter and see if your internet is blocked.

Restart and see if the internet is still blocked.

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-04-12 06:54:54)

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biloky

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 61

Re: Firestarter

Does Firestarter automatically start the firewall when booting?

Yes, just include firestarter in your daemon array in rc.conf.

To test, see this http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php#testing

or, you could just execute

# iptables -L

as root.  If it outputs a long list of rules, it's running.  If you get something like this:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

it's not.

Last edited by biloky (2008-04-12 13:38:23)

Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 172

Re: Firestarter

Cool.  I got a long list of rules from iptables -L.

Thanks!