What is wrong with firestarter?

[Knapp]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Carlos Alberto Alves
<drcaa at predialnet.com.br> wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>> Is it correct that, if I just want to configure my firewall once and for
>>>> all, I could just install Firestarter (or one of the alternatives), do
>>>> my settings and, if my settings are good, uninstall Firestarter (or the
>>>> alternative) and never have to use it again, unless I have to change my
>>>> settings?
>>> In a way yes. However, when you uninstall firestarter you would normally
>>> also remove the scripts /etc/init.d/firestarter and
>>> /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh which sets up the package filtering at
>>> boot time.
>>
>> You can however, you "iptables-save" before uninstalling firestarter or
>> other gui (it might even use it, itself), remove the firewall gui, then
>> setup an initscript to run iptables-restore at every boot.
>
> Guarddog can do this without being run every boot.
> ;-)

Can it tell you what ports are being hit?


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