hi list, I'm new to linux, upon bootup before the gui login( whats that called in linux? anyway),i get a message saying the firewall script needs to know the external internet interface. How do i fix this in simple terms. I don't have any luck figuring out what the manuals are trying to say. I have suse7.1 , behind a dlink 704p router & ADSL. Unfortunately I am still a gui moron, I have been through yast 2 many times and have been able to enable most of the items the manuals mention, but i still can't find how to tell the firewall script the external internet interface. tyia
if you are behind a router, you dont really have a "external" interface on your linux machine. youre real external interface is the one out from router to your dsl modem. anyway, for your linux machine, the most external interface would be the one connected to the router , or the hub thats connected to the router. hope i made that clear. now maybe thats your only interface (eth0) at all, so i really cant say if that would work as external AND internal , both.
i dont really remember if you can edit this in yast2 somwhere, the configuration of the firewall with yast seemed lets say very very basic only to me.
so i guess theres no way around to going to /etc/sysconfig and editing a file called SuSEfirewall2 . one of the first 3 or 4 paragrafs deals with internal or external interfaces. you might try and put them both to eth0. hth
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so i guess theres no way around to going to /etc/sysconfig and editing a file called SuSEfirewall2 . one of the first 3 or 4 paragrafs deals with internal or external interfaces. you might try and put them both to eth0. hth
If you're behind a router, then maybe SuSEfirewall2 isn't the tool you need at all. Just use this, if your Linux-Box acts as a router. Look at "Personal Firewall", this should work better in your case.
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