Re: Laptop Firewalling


I use firestarter as well on my etch laptop. One problem I have is that
I have to manually reconfigure firestarter to switch from cable (eth0)
to wireless (eth2). How did you solve this problem?

If you just configure it once, say for eth0, it will simply ignore all
the traffic on eth2 (IIUC), if you happen to later use eth2 without
reconfiguration of firestarter. I guess one could write a script to
automate this, but you should be aware of the problem.

Johannes


Really? I actually never thought of that. Because right now I am only using a wireless connection. Now that you have mentioned it, I have never ever used a wired connection with this laptop. I was unaware of this issue. I guess I will have to look at it in more detail.

Thanks for mentioning this.


Amit


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Laptop Firewalling
    ... The firewall solution I use is called firestarter. ... I have to manually reconfigure firestarter to switch from cable (eth0) ... to wireless (eth2). ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.[SOLVED]
    ... in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. ... What I have done in the past is set eth0 static, ... After a restart of networking, firestarter, and dhcp3-server all was ... It seems the Debian installer was refusing to request an address from the laptop/dhcp server. ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.
    ... I'm attempting to bridge wlan0 with eth0. ... in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. ... After a restart of networking, firestarter, and dhcp3-server all was ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: firestarter problem
    ... I connect to Internet using KNetworkManager over eth0 to ADSL ... started firestarter and did that incredibly trivial wizard. ... UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 ... I set default gateway on the XP machine to point to my Linux machine, ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
  • Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?
    ... I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter. ... disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices. ... saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing. ...
    (Fedora)