Hi!
I have installed Firestarter on my Debian 4.0 laptop which connects to a ADSL router over wireless network. But when I enable the firewall, I am unable to browse. The firewall blocks all incoming connections. I am unable correct this problem. Any suggestions?

did u try to configure firestarter? makt sure it is set on dhcp

Pardon my ignorance, but I think I do not use dhcp. I have a specific set of dns servers entered into /etc/resolv.conf.
As for configuring firestarter, the only thing I changed was I added "HTTP 80 everyone" and "HTTPS 443 everyone" to Inbound traffic policy.

Actually blocking all incoming connection is Correct, unless you are running a web server on your PC.. you do not need to open those ports inbound.

Outgoing connections are enabled by default with firestarter, and a web request will be allaowed to pass back through the firewall as an established connection where the request originated from you.


Is firestarter configured to use the correct Ethernet interface ? I know Debian is fond of configuring the Firewire port as eth0 on some systems, pushing the network card to eth1..

my bad ... i did not read your post carefully. i assumed you are running a personal "desktop" connecting to ADSL. i tried firestarter with debian/(k)ubuntu ... worked fine .. but it was just a personal desktop in my case

fireslayer, I connect to the net through eth1 and I have made the appropriate change in Firestarter wizard. Still no traffic.

what about starting and configuring firestarter as root !!! maybe as a user, you have no permission to overwrite the firewall config files by configuring firestarter

I have to use sudo to start firestarter anyway. But if I try to start firestarter as root, I get the following message -
(firestarter:7040): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

try to configure firewall using guarddog, then start firestarter and go through wizard

Firestarter crashes very often on my computer..
Testing and just now I purged it and tried Etch..
I have 2 interfaces and it's used as connection sharing.
Default configuration (3 clicks after installing) with permissive output doesn't let me connect outside anyway.
Looking at the output of iptables, it's normal. It is allowing return packets (established) but under a rule that forbids everything...

Hi randomman, I tried configuring Guarddog too, still outside connections are being blocked. I have enabled HTTP, HTTPS and DNS in guarddog.