Comments on: How To Configure A Firewall In Linux Using Firestarter

By: karatedog

karatedog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:56:42 +0000

I couldn’t find a way to set up Firestarter to enable 2 network interfaces for internet connection. I have a notebook, and I use it with docking station. When on the docking station, it uses primarily the eth0, when on the move, it uses wlan0.
I have to manually change the “internet connected network device” to and fro for browsing.
Is there any way to configure Firestarter for multiple interfaces?

By: karatedog

karatedog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

By: tom

tom — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:17:49 +0000

there’s some really affordable solutions now like ideco ipcop etc I mean compared to setting up a firewall yourself i’d rather go for ideco it’s a great bargain i been recently testing it and i can say oh boy performance and reliability are very good

By: tom

tom — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:17:00 +0000

By: Network Lab » Guida ad Ubuntu 9.04

Network Lab » Guida ad Ubuntu 9.04 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:03:09 +0000

[...] di una interfaccia grafica, installate GUFW. sudo apt-get install gufw Alternativa a GUFW è Firestarter che è una semplice, ma potente applicazione che vi consente di monitorare il vostro traffico. sudo [...]

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By: Senzord

Senzord — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:20:49 +0000

Hey SS26,

Did you find any other application based firewalls?
Very odd eh?

There are a ba-zillion firewalls, but only 1 currently blocking applications access to the net?

I cant’ understand this phenomenon.

Regards.

By: Senzord

Senzord — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:20:00 +0000

Hey SS26,

Did you find any other application based firewalls?
Very odd eh?

There are a ba-zillion firewalls, but only 1 currently blocking applications access to the net?

I cant’ understand this phenomenon.

Regards.

By: SS26

SS26 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:43 +0000

@Sharninder
I’m looking for a firewall that provides outbound protection not for ports, but for apps, i.e. when app tries to connect to i-net firewall catches it and asks what to do with this specific app. These firewalls are called application-based if i’m right.
Every GUI front-ends for iptables i saw so far doesn’t provide such functionality: they just block outbound traffic on specific port, not taking into account which app initiated this connection attempt.

I didn’t try shorewall, nor original iptables. I want to find GUI firewall which would catch applications’ connection attempts in realtime and prompt for user’s action. Like the one of those three firewalls i mentioned previously.

(anyway, maybe i need to have a closer look at shorewall and iptables…)

By: SS26

SS26 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:00 +0000

(anyway, maybe i need to have a closer look at shorewall and iptables…)

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:39:03 +0000

@SSS26: I’m not sure what kind of firewalls are you looking at. fireflier is not even being developed anymore but does shorewall work for you ?

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:39:00 +0000

@SSS26: I’m not sure what kind of firewalls are you looking at. fireflier is not even being developed anymore but does shorewall work for you ?

By: SS26

SS26 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:09:28 +0000

I found three application-BAsed firewalls so far: FireFlier (http://fireflier.sourceforge.net/), TuxGuardian (http://tuxguardian.sourceforge.net/), Linux-Firewall.org (http://www.linux-firewall.org/).
Do you know more? Pls, share, but remember: only application-based ones (firestarter, ufw & Co are not related).
Thnx.

By: SS26

SS26 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:09:00 +0000

By: Make Tech Easier - 9 Things You Need To Do/Install After Installing Ubuntu 9.04

Make Tech Easier - 9 Things You Need To Do/Install After Installing Ubuntu 9.04 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:13:09 +0000

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By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:34:12 +0000

@frnz: I’ll have to look up a good parental control system and get back to you. I don’t use one currently.

@javaMan: You can just launch firestarter again and click on stop to stop the firewall. When you’ve reconfigured your rules to your liking you can click play to make the firewall active again.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:34:00 +0000

@frnz: I’ll have to look up a good parental control system and get back to you. I don’t use one currently.

@javaMan: You can just launch firestarter again and click on stop to stop the firewall. When you’ve reconfigured your rules to your liking you can click play to make the firewall active again.

By: javaMan

javaMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:56:44 +0000

hi,

great tutorial,

i installed firestarter but it block all the traffic.
my question is how i can reinitialize the iptables.

thks

By: javaMan

javaMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:56:00 +0000

hi,

great tutorial,

i installed firestarter but it block all the traffic.
my question is how i can reinitialize the iptables.

thks