On 23/04/10 14:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 14:10 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Through F-11 I ran Firestarter, it is not available for F-12 apparently.
The attractive thing with firestarter was the log it produced. When I had a problem with an application I could look at the log and see what the firewall was blocking. How can I do that with the firewall provided with F-12. I have an application that doesn't work properly with the firewall enabled but is good with it disabled. Obviously I would like to know why.
Note that firestarter doesn't install a different firewall, it just uses the same mechanisms as Fedora already has and adds a GUI in front. I used it for a while (back in F9 or F10 I think, before system-config-firewall existed) and then removed it as I found it too confusing. YMMV of course.
poc
Yes, I realized that but it worked well for me in my ignorance of iptables, especially for things like NFS. It immediately told me what ports it wanted opened ...
Presently I am struggling with some voip applications that "almost" work. The fix for one is to disable the F-12 firewall. I do not disable anything routinely and usually most things I use work without too much effort. Presently I am stumped, but it seems to me there ought to be a log somewhere that tells what's being blocked? Where did firestarter get the information?
Thanks.
Bob