Re: firewall problems !!

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

daves debian wrote:
> I have firestarter installed on my system, I logon as root, start the setup 
> wizard, simple config, test as root, aok, log out and into a user account, aok
>
> re-boot my machine and root is OK but no matter what I configure, my day to 
> day user account cannot access the web, or mail !!!
>
> I thought that default config would set up a firewall for me ??
> I have to 
> firestarter --stop
> to access the web ...
>
> I admit iptables and IP addresses confuses me, 
>
> Can anyone tell me of an idiots firewall ? One even I can set up ?
>
> Dave

This is more a kludge than anything else, but I found that firestarter 
had to be restarted everytime that I connected to the internet in order 
for me to access the internet.  I ended up just putting a one line 
script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that was just "/etc/init.d/firestarter 
restart" after the shebang part.  I just assumed that for some reason 
firestarter could not deal with the IP changing while it was running.