Hi all,

I installed PMfirewall yesterday and it went flawlessly, just answered the
questions and off it went,, they have done great in that respect...

however, upon setting up the server, I noticed a heap of ipchains errors,
like this:
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains:
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains:
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains:
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: /sbin/ipchains: invalid mask `' specified
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or
'/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information.
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: ^I^IDone!
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall:
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: Internal: eth0^I192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall: External: ppp0^I/
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 pmfirewall:
Feb 19 09:50:33 gshop1 rc: Starting pmfirewall:  succeeded

As you can see, at the end it says it suceeded.. so I don't know what that
is all about,

It is set to autodetect the IP address, and at the time it starts ppp0 isn't
up,, could that be the problem?





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