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Firestarter Firewall opening ports problems


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I uninstalled Guarddog and installed Firestarter firewall using synaptic. All with no errors during removal and install.

I have opened port 80 to all, port 22 (ssh) to 192.168.2.1/24 which means all pc's on LAN (according to firefstarter docs), and opened 3030 for kde rdesktop, same as sshd. When I try to connect (from pc on lan) to webserver it works. But when I try to connect to sshd using putty, it says server doesn't exist. Remote desktop didn't work either.

I have since set sshd to allow all connections and hit the "Apply Policy" button to update tables, but still cant connect using putty. I can however stop firewall and try to cnnect and it works.

I have tried setting port 22 in firewall to accept from one specific IP on lan and still no go.

I am trying firestarter bc it has more GUIzed options. I have looked thru online manual and have tried all options there.

I can paste my iptables if needed.

Can anyone lead me in a right direction to get this to work?

Travis

Have a question to add: When

Have a question to add:
When I uninstalled and installed I did it all in one step. Should I have uninstalled, rebooted and then installed firestarter? Do I have stuff conflicting with each other??

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

Re: Firestarter Firewall opening ports problems

[quote=to 192.168.2.1/24 which means all pc's on LAN (according to firefstarter docs),
Travis

Are you sure?? What is the IP address of your server machine? In most cases, this will be in the 192.168.0.* range..... Try changing the LAN option to 192.168.0.0./24

I had to change the IP range

I had to change the IP range on my router because my modem is also a DHCP server with 192.168.1.x and my router by default was 192.168.1.x, they conflicted, so I had to change my router to 192.168.2.x, and they were happy. I don't think ip is problem, not the 2 anyway........

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

hi, for a quick test that

hi, for a quick test that its a firestarter issue, disconnect the router from the modem, disable firestarter and see if you can connect...

I can connect when firewall

I can connect when firewall is disabled w/o messing w/ modem.

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

Problem solved (for the most

Problem solved (for the most part),
I uninstalled Firestarter, Rebooted box, installed w/ apt-get install firestarter. Added services and OK. All works, ssh, webadmin, apache. Except Samba, I cant get it to allow a connection from an XP pc. Haven't looked into that much yet.
Thanks for the help.

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

TAKE THAT BACK, after ~10

TAKE THAT BACK, after ~10 min, firewall stopped incoming conn from LAN. Read where Firestarter was made for Kernel 2.6, I have 2.4. Docs stated that I could compile kernal. Thats too above me, so I put guarddog back on and removed firestarter....

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

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