SLE Upgrade to 7.1, but new Firewall won't work
Hello: My upgrade to Ver 7.1 went through without any significant problems except for the new Firewall setup under the 2.4 kernel. My system is a small home office with only 2 PC's: my Linux box and a lower-powered Win NT 4.0 box. Under SuSE 7.0, my Linux acted as a proxy to my dial-up ISP for the NT workstation. Under 7.1, however, I can't seem to get the '/etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config' file to work properly --- the 'SuSEfirewall_*' bootup scripts always fail. I've read the documentation files, but I'm still doing something wrong, and can't figure out what! Can anyone help me?? Thanks, Hal Schlicht
Hi,
My upgrade to Ver 7.1 went through without any significant problems except for the new Firewall setup under the 2.4 kernel. My system is a small home office with only 2 PC's: my Linux box and a lower-powered Win NT 4.0 box. Under SuSE 7.0, my Linux acted as a proxy to my dial-up ISP for the NT workstation. Under 7.1, however, I can't seem to get the '/etc/rc.config.d/firewall. rc.config' file to work properly --- the 'SuSEfirewall_*' bootup scripts always fail. I've read the documentation files, but I'm still doing something wrong, and can't figure out what!
I had the same problem, it seems that the firewall scripts are as yet unsupported for the new kernel. I reverted back to the old 2.2 based kernel and I am anxiously awaiting the new scripts. With the personal-firewall script it is stated that it is not yet supported under the new kernel, maybe they forgot it here ??? Can anyone from SuSE shed some light on this?
Can anyone help me??
If you want to try and have a go at it just manually load the filter rules once, they work. And then just hack into the scripts so that they will use iptables instead of ipchains. Regards, Manfred.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:04:10PM +0100, Manfred Riem wrote:
Hi,
My upgrade to Ver 7.1 went through without any significant problems except for the new Firewall setup under the 2.4 kernel. My system is a small home office with only 2 PC's: my Linux box and a lower-powered Win NT 4.0 box. Under SuSE 7.0, my Linux acted as a proxy to my dial-up ISP for the NT workstation. Under 7.1, however, I can't seem to get the '/etc/rc.config.d/firewall. rc.config' file to work properly --- the 'SuSEfirewall_*' bootup scripts always fail. I've read the documentation files, but I'm still doing something wrong, and can't figure out what!
There is an update which fixes boot error mesages. You need SuSEfirewall-4.3-3.
I had the same problem, it seems that the firewall scripts are as yet unsupported for the new kernel. I reverted back to the old 2.2 based kernel and I am anxiously awaiting the new scripts. With the personal-firewall script it is stated that it is not yet supported under the new kernel, maybe they forgot it here ???
I am using 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2-4GB, SuSEfirewall-4.3-3,--no problems. Actually SuSEfirewall script is ipchains based, so make sure you have ipchains module loaded.
Can anyone from SuSE shed some light on this?
Can anyone help me??
If you want to try and have a go at it just manually load the filter rules once, they work. And then just hack into the scripts so that they will use iptables instead of ipchains.
See above about ipchains module in 2.4 kernel. -Kastus
Regards,
Manfred.
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Manfred Riem