[Linux-disciples] What does this mean? (fwd) (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:04:25PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
> I am using firestarter.  I quit it from within the program and tried again.  No
> luck. 
> 
> What are iptables?

I'm not sure if this is the right answer, but my inclination
is to say: if you don't know what they are, you probably
don't need them. See the manpage for iptables (run
'man 8 iptables'):

NAME
       iptables - administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT

I don't know firestarter, but the blurb about it --

firestarter - gtk program for managing and observing your firewall

-- suggests that it merely *monitors* a firewall rather than
actually running one. I suspect you have another firewall
running. Perhaps it depends on iptables.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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