FIREWALL STUFF

[Stan Vincent]

Hi Maurice:
Good to hear that lokkit worked.

I am not a techie to make any statements as to which
is  a better firewall or the way it works but I use
firestarter as default firewall because it is visible
especially when you have an attempt. 

This the sequence I adopt as you will see it when you
try setting it up the first time.

If you have only one network card it usually is eth0
if you have more than one make sure which one has your
internet connection. This is what I do.

Start Firestarter Go to Firestarter icon dropdown menu
and run wizard.
Hit forward and it usually will show detected device
either eth0 or eth1 select your choice if you are
certain if not the selected one may be the active
connection. 
If you are using DHCP check the appropriate box.
Hit forward
If you are not sharing this connection with other
computers just hit forward again.
Select start firewall and I am usually done.
I also make this change in preference.
ICMP filtering
Enable ICMP filtering
I will check unreachable,
The rest i leave unchecked for now.
Then accept.
I guess this will make your computer invisible to ping
requests on the net.

These are the things I do hope this helps
Regards,
Stan


--- 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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