Re: [Firestarter-user] (no subject)

[Mark L. W. <ma...@al...>]

Is the print server "local" to the firestarter box?  (On the same network?)

I had similar problems, but the print server was on a different network
segment via a VPN.

What protocol is the print server using?  (LPD, HP JetDirect, HTTP)?
With the firewall down, can you use tcpdump to watch the TCP traffic to/from
the print server to confirm the addresses and ports?  If so, try adding
appropriate entries in the user-pre file in firestarter to allow that
traffic.

Are you using NAT or MASQ?  When the firewall comes up, these take effect.
When it is down, they don't.  If you are MASQ or NAT'ing internal IP
addresses to a public IP, the traffic coming back from the print server
could be mis-directed.  If so, you would need to add an exception to the
MASQ or NAT entry to skip that particular internal IP.

Just some thoughts....

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fir...@li...
> [mailto:fir...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Erich Iseli
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:18 AM
> To: fir...@li...
> Subject: [Firestarter-user] (no subject)
>
>
> Hello list,
>
> Since I started using Firestarter, I am not able to print through a
> print server by Planet Networking & Communication. The print server is
> a small box called "Fast Ethernet Print Server" and it's model is
> FPS-5P-M.
>
> I have outound traffic set on permissive, without any restriction; in
> inbound traffic, I allow connections from the IP of the printer box,
> without any port restriction.
>
> Yet, firestarter doesn't show any blocked packets. Printing is only
> possible when I stop the firewall, which is not really the goal of all
> this.
>
> When the firewall is on, I'm able to ping the box, but printing fails.
> Normally I can also telnet on the box for admin work, but this is no
> longer possible:
>
>     Trying 10.218.226.45...
>     telnet: connect to address 10.218.226.45: Connection refused
>     telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> Does/did anyone have the same problem? How can I solve that?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Erich
>
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