Open SuSE 10 + Firestarter

Ace2005 · 10-09-2005, 06:08 AM

Firestarter will not start in OpenSuSE 10 and says that my kernel does not support Iptabls. What do i do?

SlackerLX · 10-09-2005, 11:12 PM

SuSE has its own built-in firewall based on iptables. If it's enabled Firestarter won't start. If you still want to use Firestarter then disable SuSE firewall through YaST

Ace2005 · 10-10-2005, 10:56 AM

Tried it, and it still does not work, i restarted the computer, i restarted the internet connection, what else can i do?

I need firestarter because i don't know how to use internet connection shareing with the SuSE one.

I tried to do it with Yast and the DHCP configuration tool but that just gives me an error

Is the IP tables being used a customised version just for suse or something?

SlackerLX · 10-10-2005, 05:47 PM

And the YaST configuration says that Firewall is disabled? If still negative then try to configure YaST firewall to use shared connection. It has gui wizard.

Ace2005 · 10-11-2005, 01:06 PM

Ok now its working, i don't think i changed anything but it just is working.

And the SuSE firewall is on too...

Ace2005 · 10-13-2005, 01:13 AM

It gets stranger

sudo firestarter gives the error but firestarter and then typing in the root password works fine

SlackerLX · 10-13-2005, 05:04 PM

You can start the firewall from console in superuser mode. In this case though you'll have to keep the terminal open