johnz Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Firstly, any imput is appreciated.... Last night i installed Shorewall, from one of the three installation discs and then typed "services shorewall start" into a terminal as root, upon doing this the internet conection was immediately stoped by shorewall. typing the words "services shorewall stop" brings back the internet conection. all the folders that contains shorewall configuration files are all locked and cant be accessed even when with the security level at standard, the folders have the locked key symbol on them. i have one computer with a single internrt conection with an ADSL USB modem (wired) that just needs a basic firewall configuration setup, though we all know there isnt anything basic in linux :-) :unsure: [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil Posted September 16, 2005 Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 You must configure shorewall...just edit the configurations files with a command line editor or run a konsole and type su [enter] enter your root password [enter] type konqueror in the command line a konqueror window will popup goto /etc/shorewall now i must edit some files namely: interfaces zones rules policy please read the comments on that files...after you read it u can configure those files to check if those files are fine in a matter of sintax,is advised to run the shorewall check command as root in a konsole,if everything is ok you can issue a service shorewall start Hope it helped... B) Cheers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnz Posted September 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 thankyou wardevil, just discovered its possible to set up shorewall in the Mandriva Control Centre, checked those files you mention and all seems fine, ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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