Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"... (update)

2004-07-22 Thread listcomm
Okay... I've figured out a couple of things. I'll post them here in case anyone else gets in the same trouble. There are hints of solutions to all this in various places scattered around the Web, but nothing explicit or in one place, that I could find. Basically, I just spent enough time trying

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread listcomm
> Heresy? Why? There is a consensus of some sort among some security people that (a) personal firewalls are useless, (b) using ipchains, iptables, or anything layered thereupon (like Firestarter)to attempt to construct one is a waste of time. (Obviously I don't care what they think, or I wouldn'

Re: Confounded by Firestarter "Issues"...

2004-07-21 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/21/04 03:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure Firestarter (0.8xx) as a "Personal Firewall" (I know that's heresy in some quarters) and seem to be missing some fundamental information. Heresy? Why? I have it set up and running and I can get data through it. The problem is tha