Hello:

Setting up the bastille firewall is turning into an adventure.  Although I 
pretty much having it do what I want, there are some nagging issues I am 
hoping somebody can assist me.

1.  Background info:  Running LM8.0 in a dell 4100 series pc using an 800 mhz 
pIII processor with 384meg of RAM.

2.  Most annoying:  I keep loosing my lan connection to my win box.  I will 
have everything running (meaning my lan, the firewall, and my internet 
connection) pretty good.  I will then walk away from the computer, and come 
back, say an hour later.  When I return, I can no longer access the c drive 
in my win box.  If I try, I get a "input/output" error.  To get it back, I 
must shut down the firewall, unmount  and remount the c drive and restart the 
firewall (by firewall I mean Bastille).  FWIW, I don't loose my samba 
connection.  I suspect the firewall, because if the firewall is down, and I 
leave for 2 hours or more, the network is just fine when I return.  I have 
checked the bastille-firewall.cfg file and I don't see anything involving 
some kind of network time out variable.  Could it be related to one of the 
icmp variables?

3.  Not so annoying:  The"kernel modules to masquerade" option in 
InteractiveBastille has the default setting of "ftp raudio vdolive".  To the 
list I added irc.  When I load bastille-firewall I get the error messages 
could not find ip_nat_raudio and ip_nat_vdolive.  I searched in my system for 
both files (used the command "find / ip_nat_raudio* -print") and I could not 
find them.  Any ideas where they might be?  Either in my system or on some 
web page?  I assume ip_nat_raudio is for realplayer.  I have been able to do 
a workaround by dedicating a couple of ports to real player.  Imho, it is not 
the best solution, but it should do until I am able to find the nat file for 
it.  I have no idea what is vdolive?  Again, if somebody can suggest where I 
might find it, I would appreciate it.

4.  Not annoying but still:  I use IRC and in order for the servers to 
identify my client, I must leave port 113 open.  Is there a way where I can 
shut down the port after the server has identified my client?  I had to 
install identd in my system for the i.d. process to work properly.

Thanks in advance....

Dexter

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