FIREWALL STUFF

[Jaime Thomas]

Not positive, but I believe that Firestarter and Lokkit are just GUIs to
configure iptables (the firewall in the kernel), so having both running
wouldn't improve your security.

On 2/22/07, Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> 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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