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    disable firestarter messages

    Hi all,
    I have recently installed firestarter (frontend to iptables).
    and added it to list of sudoers and in startup programs .
    the system tray does showup at startup but since almost allways
    my ethernet cable is not connected or my wireless connection is
    not enabled before startup .. I get this message
    "the device eth0 is not connected"
    or
    "the device wlan0 is not connected"

    I just want to disable this popup at startup even though
    my connection is not enabled .. any suggestions

    And do you suggest any other more sophisticated fronted to iptables

    thanks in advance
    Last edited by tnvkrishna; October 31st, 2009 at 02:48 PM.

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    Re: disable firestarter messages

    The simple answer if you don't want to see those messages is to not run the GUI at startup. It is a front end for configuration but it doesn't have to be running for you to be protected by iptables, installing it has already written the default rules to iptables. You might get tired of it showing you all the hits it's blocked and it uses resources, so no need to keep it running unless you're using it for something, like monitoring your connections or hits.

    Lots of people here don't like firestarter and will recommend another frontend. I'm not sure why you need "sophistication" for a frontend to iptables.

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