here is the url : http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/
the firestarter there is for LM 9.0
If you have setup any of the built-in firewalling tools, either remove all traces of them, ( unless you can still surf and such ) or don't use them. before someone flames me, I say this because on the four trys to get them to work they kept killing my connection to the internet, or to my LAN and I could not undo them no matter how properly I did it, and would have to reinstall. they even would change my settings to their defaults on reboots. I couldn't find any useful documentation on how I must have set it up improperly or how I may have errors in the settiongs. so I would humbly recommend taking a simple, though not built-in approach. ( my problem maybe hardware or kernel related too )
Anyway,
with firestarter, all my ports show "stealthed "and unwanted packets are rejected, and logged.
I send this because I couldn't find any good help for the drake tools and had to figure out myself how to get a running firewall in place.
I must say though, that this is the first actually running and secure firewall I've had running since 8.0. In 8.1 and 8.2 I could only get a less than perfect firewall running.
anyway again, try it if you dare, it works for me ;-)
Richard Urwin wrote:
Hi, OK, I'm a newbie at MDK 9.0 i586 of 5 hours standing.I installed at the "higher" security setting. I enabled the Firewall and depressed all the (other) checkboxes. I then had two issues: Users (except root) couldn't read the documentation. ie "start"->Documentation->anything failed with access violation. The documents in question were readable, but the directories in which they sat did not have execute permission for 'other'. The firewall did not appear to let through *any* traffic. I checked with my ISP that I was connected and authorised, and routing was correct, but at least ping (UDP/echo?) and DNS traffic were blocked. I have now reverted to "standard" security and "allow everything" firewalling. These issues have gone away.
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