On Wednesday 02 January 2002 04:48 am, you wrote:
Albert Wagner wrote:
I just installed the personal firewall that came with SuSE 7.1. And coincidentally cannot order anything on the internet: my basket is always empty. Does the firewall interfere with this kind of transaction?
It might. Try opening up port 443 (https) in your firewall. Some sites use this port for secure ordering. You may not be able to do this with the personal firewall, you may need to set up SuSEFirewall or SuseFirewall2, depending on your kernel.
Hi, Joe. Thank you for your reply. I never bothered with a firewall while on dialup, but just got digital cable. So I am on a steep learning curve. I take it that there is a difference between "personal" and "SuSE" firewall. Basically, all I did was set START_FW="yes" in /etc/rc.config. I am on Kernel 2.2.18, so I can't yet run SuSEFirewall 2 (I tried). Below are snippets of my boot log. To me it's a mixed bag of successes and failures. Can you tell me from that what my status is? Thanks again for your reply. Albert <more> Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5 Starting Firewall Initialization: (phase 1 of 3) (run 2 of 3) Warning: interface eth0 is not active. No interfaces active! exiting ... SuSEfirewall: clearing rules now ... done failed <more> Starting personal-firewall (initial) [active] done <more> Starting service dhcp client on eth0dhcpcd[284]: DHCP_NAK server response received: requested address not available done Setting up routing (using /etc/route.conf) done Starting Firewall Initialization: (phase 2 of 3) Starting RPC portmap daemon done Starting SSH daemon done <more> Starting Firewall Initialization: (phase 3 of 3) Starting personal-firewall (final) [active] done Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Failed services in runlevel 5: SuSEfirewall_init SuSEfirewall_setup SuSEfirewall_final