This is still a weak spot. It now backs up your settings when a new
version is installed at least. So just run through the wizard once and
then rename your old firewall.sh back over it and all will be happy.

jb

> Will it read your currently configured firewall setup, upon 
> installation, 
> or will it default to its own settings, again?
> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jack Bowling wrote:
> 
> > ** Reply to message from Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> on Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:24:09 -0500 (EST)
> > 
> > 
> > > Yes.
> > > 
> > > Firestarter sets up a firewall script that goes ahead and 
> explicitly 
> > > blocks everything.
> > > 
> > > The simpler (and probably more effective, not to mention 
> efficient) method 
> > > is to start out by denying everything, and then explicitly 
> allowing 
> > > certain things.
> > 
> > Negative, Mike. Default policies are configurable by the user. I 
> have DROP for input and output and ACCEPT for forward. FS has come 
> a long way the past while.
> > 
> > jb
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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