On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Circa Wed. Oct. 16, 2002 at 22:21:32 +0200, a lone cry was heard from Piet Roorda
in the wasteland called the Internet: each time I do adsl-connect I have to stop my firewall2 and start it again otherwise everything blocks, why? piet
The reason is because it need to update the dynamic ip address to your ppp inteface. The solution is to stick the command to restart your firewall in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local.
And you should find a script to make just this patch (in SuSE 7.3 it is to ip-up not ip-up.local) somewhere in the firewall2 rpm. (I made a really clumsy 7.3 install once - can't remember what I did wrong - and this patch was never run - so I just ran the patch command from the command line.) They usually include a patched ip-up example file in /usr/share/doc/packages/SuSEfirewall2 or the equivalent place for your version. dproc