[ubuntu-za] Firestarter firewall

[Hannes Coetzee]

Robert Holm wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:49 +0200, William Gebers wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/10/2 Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net>:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>       
>
>   
>>> 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."
>>>       
>
> Running as root has no effect.
> What I tried next was to edit the /etc/firestarter/configuration file by
> changing the name of the external network interface from "eth0" to
> "ppp0", and made the same change to the internal network name.(Have not
> checked to see if this additional change was really necessary, or
> desirable).
>
> Firestarter now starts without a problem. It shows the iBurst wireless
> HTTPS service as a permanent active connection, and it records all the
> blocked events. I don't know enough to know whether this is kosher, but
> it seems to be OK.
>
> Robert
>
>
>   
Just a wild guess. Check /etc/hosts and see if "127.0.0.1 localhost" is 
present.

Hannes