[ubuntu-za] Firestarter firewall

[Quintin van Rooyen]

2008/10/3 William Gebers <wgebers at gmail.com>

> Hi Robert.
>
> Have you tried running Firestarter as root?  Although I have never
> tried using Firestarter, it sounds like it may have to do with
> permissions.  I.e. the software is trying to check the status of
> something that it does not have permission to access and hence thinks
> it is not active?
>

I can second that. I had a similar weird message way back when and running
firestarter as root should sort things - in fact I think that the graphical
interface launches with gksudo by default.


>
>
> Regards
>
> William
>
>
>
> 2008/10/2 Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am somewhat intrigued by the following:
> > I connect to the internet via an iBurst desktop modem using the ethernet
> > port. Works perfectly.
> >
> > When I load the Firestarter firewall that I used successfully with my
> > dialup connection I get the following: "Failed to start the firewall.
> > The device eth0 is not ready. Please check your network device settings
> > and make sure your internet connection is active."
> >
> > What intrigues me is that, in spite of this, the firestarter gui
> > reflects the following:
> > Network Device eth0, Type internet, records the bandwidth received and
> > sent correctly, shows the activity speed, and shows the IP addresses of
> > the active connections.
> >
> > This seems to me to be a contradiction and, while I'm not losing any
> > sleep over it, it would be interesting to understand what is going on.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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