FIREWALL STUFF

[Maurice Murphy]

Stan,

Thank you very much indeed.  I have started Lokkit using the High 
Security selection.  I checked my LAN and it still seems to work OK.  I 
never did see a second configuration screen.

Similarly, I followed your advice on Firestarter and it appears to have 
installed correctly with no errors.  I am reluctant to attempt to 
configure it for fear of gumming up my LAN.  Can you provide any 
guidance in this regard?  Or should I just be satisfied with Lokkit by 
itself.  Firestarter and Lokkit plus my router might be a bit of an 
overkill!

Thanks again,

Maurice

Stan Vincent wrote:
> Hi Maurice:
> Seems to me what you have seen the dos like screen is
> the appropriate one.
> However this is what I do differently.
> I select using space bar then I use the tab to move
> the selector and when the selector color comes to OK I
> hit the enter key and everything is fine in lokkit.
>
> I dont use f12
> This should work I guarantee and select High security
> preferable.
>
>
> Regarding Firestarter the error message is ok
> All you have to do is go to system tools select
> Automatix run it once again, it will update itself.
> After that you go to system administration and you
> will find Firestarter icon in the drop down menu you
> can configure it from here.
>
> I believe both your firewalls will work now.
> If you have the patience try one more time.
>
> Regards,
> Stan
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello Stan,
>>
>> Thank you for your advice.  Upon receiving it, I was
>> full of hope that 
>> my firewall problems would be over.  Unfortunately,
>> this was not to be!
>>
>> Specifically when I went into terminal and did sudo
>> lokkit, a dos-like 
>> screen came up giving me three choices.  I used my
>> spacebar to choose 
>> "medium" and then pressed F12 for the next screen. 
>> No next screen 
>> appeared.  So I was unable to make further
>> refinements to the 
>> configuration. The end result was that I was unable
>> to  access my home 
>> LAN,  Not exactly what I wanted!
>>
>> After completely removing Firestarter with Synaptic,
>> I tried to install 
>> the Gnome Security Package from Automatix2, only to
>> be greeted with a 
>> large red FATAL error!  So that was that.  After a
>> bit of fiddling, I 
>> got my LAN up and running again.  So I guess the
>> best I can do is to 
>> hide behind my password protected router and pray
>> for better news!
>>
>> Thanks again for the suggestions,
>>
>> Maurice
>>
>>
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