while it would be nice to use the same firewall in
both OS's, PMfirewall returns the same outputs to the
tests at grc.com and it is much more customizable.
When I host a game of Half-life on my windows machine
I have to kill zonealarm because it refuses all
connection attempts from people trying
I've only been using Mandrake for about a week now, and find that depending on the
level of security selected during install, things like su-ing to root don't exactly
work as planned.
I wonder if: had you installed pmfirewall after su-ing to root from your normal user
account, if the
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Actually the best protection is to have a sorry a$$ 33,6
connection, an' the vandals won't even bother with ya ;)
Huh! I was wondering why nobody ever bothered me!
Phil
First: PMFirewall doesn't "run" There is no daemon for it. It simply sets the
ipchains rules as a script.
In terminal, type (su to root) ipchains -L
to see a list of the current rules set by pmfirewall. These will change over time as
the firewall DENIES things. But will NOT be maintain after
hey joe,
the easiest, and cheapest firewall for windows ive found can be
downloaded from www.grc.comits called zone alarm ive had it
running on my windows partition of this 'puter for as long as its been out and
has worked great! (before i installed i never knew how many
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe Brault wrote:
Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to
go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and
Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my
Ethernet connection thru that,
Hi Greg,
Thanks for answering. I checked the specified files and found this entry
in ip-up.local [ -x /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall ]
/usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start
I'm a little confused as to why, since this command is clearly in there,
why it's not following it.
--
Mark
Hi Tom,
First I would check to make sure that the firewall was indeed operating
checking to see if I could get traffic up and downstream. So I would
just do a ping. That's what tipped me off in the first place that
something wasn't right. I couldn't get any traffic going either
direction.
Then,
Hello again,
Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to
go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and
Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my
Ethernet connection thru that, then into my other
For windows I use Zonealarm. Its great.
Go to http://www.zonelabs.com
free for personal use. It successfully blocked an
attack on my machine that happened a few months ago.
I am very happy with it.
Dacia
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Hello again,
Thanks everyone for the
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Hello again,
Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds
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Hello again,
Thanks everyone for the previous advice
This might help...let me know if it doesn't.
In answer to:
What does one do if PMfirewall won't start on it's own when a connection
to the internet is made? I've been asking this question on the PMfirewall
list, but it's falling on deaf ears.
This is a message from Rick at pointman.org.
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