Firewall strangeness

[Anne Wilson]

I have been using s-c-firewall on this laptop, but I needed to track down a 
problem, so Iused s.c.f to disable the firewall.  Now the issue is resolved I 
want to re-enable it, but can't.  I've also tried 'service iptables start'

iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.3.1: interface name 
`Wireless_connection_1' must be shorter than IFNAMSIZ (15)               
Error occurred at line: 12

Nothing has changed since iptables was happily running.  
'Wireless_connection_1' is not something that I entered.

Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful, so I'm stuck.  Somewhere there 
must be a file that has line 12 containing 'Wireless_connection_1' - can 
anyone tell me where to find it?

Thanks

Anne

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 02:46:14 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have been using s-c-firewall on this laptop, but I needed to track down a
> problem, so Iused s.c.f to disable the firewall.  Now the issue is resolved
> I want to re-enable it, but can't.  I've also tried 'service iptables
> start'
>
> iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.3.1: interface
> name `Wireless_connection_1' must be shorter than IFNAMSIZ (15)
> Error occurred at line: 12
>
> Nothing has changed since iptables was happily running.
> 'Wireless_connection_1' is not something that I entered.
>
> Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful, so I'm stuck.  Somewhere
> there must be a file that has line 12 containing 'Wireless_connection_1' -
> can anyone tell me where to find it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anne

Perhaps /etc/sysconfig/iptables.save...

You could 
# grep -R Wireless /etc/*

HTH, 
Tim

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 03 August 2009 02:09:03 Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Sunday 02 August 2009 02:46:14 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have been using s-c-firewall on this laptop, but I needed to track down
> > a problem, so Iused s.c.f to disable the firewall.  Now the issue is
> > resolved I want to re-enable it, but can't.  I've also tried 'service
> > iptables start'
> >
> > iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.3.1: interface
> > name `Wireless_connection_1' must be shorter than IFNAMSIZ (15)
> > Error occurred at line: 12
> >
> > Nothing has changed since iptables was happily running.
> > 'Wireless_connection_1' is not something that I entered.
> >
> > Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful, so I'm stuck.  Somewhere
> > there must be a file that has line 12 containing 'Wireless_connection_1'
> > can anyone tell me where to find it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Anne
>
> Perhaps /etc/sysconfig/iptables.save...
>
> You could
> # grep -R Wireless /etc/*

Strangely enough, when I booted up this morning I found that iptables is 
running!  All very odd, but I'm not giving this any more time at the moment.  
Thanks for trying to help

Anne