Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi,
I use firestarter without any problems. It runs as a service which has a
gui frontend which may or may not be displayed. I have dhcp-client &
dhcp-common pkgs installed only. The service runs continuously unless
you stop it using the gui.
If you are swapping the 1 ethernet port between laptop and internet this
could be causing your problem
Yup, this was when I ran into the problem.
firestarter setup files are in /etc/firestarter. I do not appear to have
a file /etc/network/interfaces
I suggest you start the firestarter gui again, and run the wizard.
Uncheck the box 'ip address is assigned via DHCP' check 'start firewall
now' then save and quit.
I did that, and that worked, but the changes I make using Firestarter seem to
persist even after I trun it off.
So, I think I've solved the problem, but I still don't know why turning the
firewall off doesn't stop it from messing with my network interfaces.
Thanks to everyone for their help!
Aidan
