firewall blues

zacharysturgeon · #1 27th April 2009, 04:59 AM

I decided to install firestarted from the repos simply because I was used to the interface in Ubuntu. Before that, I had used Fedora's Firewall Configuration to forward port 22 on the Trusted Services page. Then I added 8080 and 8767 under other ports and hit Apply, but it didn't work! Still being blocked by the firewall. The only way to make it work is to completely disable the firewall. I tried removing firestarter, but still nothing. Please help!

Ellen · #2 27th April 2009, 05:57 AM

Firestarter really works easy. It has very simple interface with clear understandings. I wonder y its giving you blues. Why dont you check the tutorial over here and see if there is anything you are missing.

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zacharysturgeon · #3 27th April 2009, 06:18 AM

Turns out my iptables weren't enabled in the Service Configuration. Would that cause the problem? I Think I got it to work. Thanks for the help.

zacharysturgeon · #4 27th April 2009, 11:04 PM

I restarted and it went back to the same state. Sometimes firestarter just freezes and crashes for no apparent reason. When I looked in services, I found there is a firestarter service, and when I disable it, the firewall works just fine. I suppose it could be a conflict with IP tables.

On a side note, the Service Confguration won't let me Stop the firestarter service. when I use:

Code:

[root@server ~]# service firestarter stop
Stopping the Firestarter firewall:                         [  OK  ]
[root@server ~]# service firestarter status
Firestarter is stopped

It still shows up as running under the service configuration.