Firewall activity log -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Fri Apr 23 18:40:51 UTC 2010
On 23/04/10 14:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 14:10 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> Through F-11 I ran Firestarter, it is not available for F-12 apparently.
>>
>> The attractive thing with firestarter was the log it produced. When
>> I had a problem with an application I could look at the log and see
>> what the firewall was blocking. How can I do that with the firewall
>> provided with F-12. I have an application that doesn't work properly
>> with the firewall enabled but is good with it disabled. Obviously I
>> would like to know why.
>>
> Note that firestarter doesn't install a different firewall, it just uses
> the same mechanisms as Fedora already has and adds a GUI in front. I
> used it for a while (back in F9 or F10 I think, before
> system-config-firewall existed) and then removed it as I found it too
> confusing. YMMV of course.
>
> poc
>
>
Yes, I realized that but it worked well for me in my ignorance of
iptables, especially for things like NFS. It immediately told me
what ports it wanted opened ...
Presently I am struggling with some voip applications that "almost"
work. The fix for one is to disable the F-12 firewall. I do not
disable anything routinely and usually most things I use work
without too much effort. Presently I am stumped, but it seems to me
there ought to be a log somewhere that tells what's being blocked?
Where did firestarter get the information?
Thanks.
Bob
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