RE: [Firestarter-user] does firestarter run with iptables as it's engine? 2nd request

[George H. <gh...@sn...>]

can someone pls answer this?

also, aren't the web docs missing the basic
architecture of Firestarter, eg, its relationship to
iptables?  why?  can someone pls fill this in??

thank you,
george h.

--- "Kellner, Peter" <Peter@PeterKellner.net> wrote:

> I see that Firstarter rewrites the
> /sys/config/iptables file.  I
> understand everything in it (I think) except I don't
> understand how it
> implements a pass through rule I added by right
> clicking on an event
> (from port 3306) and giving it an IP as an
> exception.  It appears to be
> working even though there is no mention of the
> exception in the iptables
> file.  How is it blocked?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Peter Kellner
> http://peterkellner.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fir...@li...
>
[mailto:fir...@li...]
> On Behalf Of J.O.
> Aho
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:05 AM
> To: fir...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Firestarter-user] does firestarter run
> with iptables as
> it's engine?
> 
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Kellner, Peter wrote:
> 
> > I'm a little confused on all the iptables
> configuration.  There is
> > iptables-config and iptables.  Not sure how they
> are related.  Does
> > firestarter replace all that?  At the end of the
> day, does it make an
> > iptables configuration?
> 
> Firestarter uses iptables to set the rules, in the
> same manner as other 
> "firewalls" for Linux. Today most Linux distros have
> some sort of 
> firewall solution (there are some exception to this)
> and running two
> sets 
> of rules will usually lead to problems, in worst
> case there may be rules
> 
> that works against eachother.
> 
> So yes, firestarter replaces iptables-config and
> iptables service (but 
> depends on the iptables pacakge).
> 
> 
> -- 
>       //Aho
> 
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