John R Pierce wrote:

Ed Warner wrote:

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I'm using Firestarter as my firewall. If I restart the network or my DSL line goes down, I have to manually restart Firestarter.

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Does anyone have a suggestion as how I could further troubleshoot this problem?

Remove the original firestarter line from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and add the following line to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local: /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh start

And the following line to /etc/ppp/ip-down.local: /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh stop

Also disable firestarter as a service (chkconfig firestarter off) and take a look in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local for broken code. Is /etc/ppp/ip-up.local executable in a bash console?

why aren't you starting your firewall from /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter, with symlinks in the usual /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/{K|S}##firestarter

Cause ip changes on every dial-in for internet connections without a static ip.

I've never -heard- of dinking with the ifup-***** scripts for any reason

This is an option in firestarter configuration since 2005. See for more in firestarter Changelog:

2005-01-09 Tomas Junnonen tomas@fs-security.com [...] * src/scriptwriter.c: - Set execute permissions on ip-up.local [...]

And in scriptwriter.c:

#define PPP_HOOK_FILE "/etc/ppp/ip-up.local" const gchar* FIRESTARTER_HOOK = "sh "FIRESTARTER_CONTROL_SCRIPT" start\n";

regards Olaf