Re: [Firestarter-user] Using firestarter on Debian -- suggested improvements

[Bret B. <bre...@gm...>]

On 11/03/2012, rob stone <flo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Debian version:-
> Linux roblaptop 3.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 05:17:36 UTC 2012 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Firestarter version 1.0.3
>
> Installing firestarter via synaptic puts the shell script in the rcS.d
> path and is run prior to any network being available and subsequently
> killed by network-manager. It should be in rc2.d, etc. paths and start
> AFTER all other network services.
>
> My suggestion would be to run it in two stages. In rcS.d run a script
> that sets up the kernel variables and loads iptables, and then after
> networking has been established, start the gui.
>
> Also, it is the isc-dhcp-client packages that provide DHCP and
> consequently the documentation needs updating.
>
> Where can I find documentation about the scripts and configuration files
> held in /etc/firestarter??? I can see that some things are updateable
> via the preferences tab, but how do you use user-post and user-pre
> scripts??
>
> The current version of iptables supports the ulog daemon. I suggest that
> you use this instead of flooding syslog. That way dropped packets are
> all in the one log.
>
> My logs were being flooded with firestarter dropped packages at the rate
> of one per minute, so I cobbled together my own rules for iptables,
> using the ulog daemon, and now firestarter just reports the odd packet
> with a condition not being trapped by "my" rules. This is NOT ideal. Is
> it O.K. if I modify your scripts to use the ulog daemon???
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
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Hello.

In response to a query that I posted a while ago, it was posted on
this list that Firestarter has been abandoned.

Refusing to accept that, I sent messages to both the developer of
Firestarter, and, to the Debian package maintainer for Firestarter,
querying the status of Firestarter.

I have not received even an acknowledgment from either of those
people, so Firestarter appears to be" dead in the water" - abandoned
by the people held to be responsible for the development and
maintenance of it.

So, your posting of suggestions for improvements of Firestarter, would
appear to be as likely to have an effect, as dropping a bottle with a
message asking for a rescue, down an abandoned well.

It is unfortunate, and I regret posting this message, but I believe
that it needs to be said.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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