On Monday 05 September 2005 05:33, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Dear people,
I have been consistently having problems with my net connection and suspect that it's not my ISP. I am able to browse, do FTP downloads, ping www.google.com etc, but KGpg, YOU, Gaim etc simply freeze and timeout on me. I have asked my ISP whether they are disabling any ports. They said none except VoIP which I must ask to be enabled (for free).
I wonder if it is the SuSE Firewall. I have enabled the firewall, but perhaps it is working overzealously? Back in Windows, ZoneAlarm used to popup a window for each application that wanted to access the net or act as a server, and when I said Allow all was fine and happy. Now I suspect SuSEFirewall is working and disabling access of apps to the net without asking me. Please tell me what to do? Doesn't SuSEFirewall ask the user like ZoneAlarm? I should, no?
The following applies to SuSE 9.3 (and perhaps earlier versions but I have 9.3 so can't be sure). Use YaST->Sucurity and users->Firewall to temporarily disable the firewall and see if that fixes the problem. Be sure "Start-Up" is selected on the left and then use the button that says "Stop firewall now". If that fixes your problem, post your file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.