[Bug 59647] Re: Firewall not persistent

[hackel]

I stumbled across this bug because the firewall DOES seem to be
persistent in the latest version (1.0.3-6ubuntu4).  I installed
Firestarter, setup a simple firewall, and now it is being applied
whenever my wireless connection goes up or down (by NetworkManager, from
/etc/network/if-up.d/50firestarter).  This is NOT what I want, however.
I only want to run the firewall when I explicitly start Firestarter.  I
only installed it because I wanted to monitor outgoing connections for
something I was working on.  I agree that it's a security risk if users
think the firewall is persistent when it is not, however there needs to
be an easy way to disable this persistence.

Realistically, I only want a firewall to be activated when I am logging
into a public wifi network or some other condition.  It would be great
if the activation of Firestarter could be tied into Network Manager so
all this was automated somehow.

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Firewall not persistent
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59647
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