[Gllug] SuSEFirewall2

Sudhir Anand anand_sudhir at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Nov 25 16:26:45 UTC 2002


My PC is run on SuSE 8.0.  By default, SuSEFirewall2 is started
automatically when the PC boots.  YaST2 was used to set-up the firewall with
the intention that the firewall should monitor /dev/ppp0 after a internet
connection is established.  A 56k external modem is used to connect to the
internet.

Internet access is not available if the firewall is running before the
connection is established.  However, if the firewall is activated after the
connection has been made the internet can be accessed.  Alternatively, I
have to shutdown the firewall and restart it after the connection is
established.

Does this imply that the firewall is not active while the interner
connection is running or that this is standard procedure of getting a
firewall to monitor internet connections?  Is there a way of setting up the
firewall so that it does have to be restarted after a connection to the
internet has been established with a modem?

Any help or comments will be welcome.

Regards.

Sudhir Anand

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