Moblock (peerguardian linux alternative)

[jamesford]

ashrack, in my experience moblock and firestarter cancel eachother out. however if you run firesterter, set up all your rules and thetn reboot, with firestarter not set to run at startup (or possibly its enough just to exit firestarter and restart moblock) your firestarter rules will stick whil u will have a working moblock (until u start the firestarter gui again)

not tried with connection sharing though...so dont know if that will work

[ashrack]

Well if the only problem is when U start Firestarter GUI than thats not such a big problem. Had a similar problem in Win2k3 with PEERGUARDIAN and OUTPOST FW. Since OUTPUST had to be lunched first and PG second, else PG would work

[jamesford]

hmm i used outpost and peerguardian in xp too, i never had a problem, not that i can remember anyway, its been a while

[pelle.k]

Hey guys.
Yeah the GUI in it's present state isn't very "much", but as i said i'm working on the full version.
What you have right now is just "quick'n'dirty show me the log in a trayable window".

Moblock and fireHOL works fine together if you know what to add in the fireHOL configuration file. But fireHOL is a "iptable rules creator script", NO GUI, and thats why i figured i'd make a simple gui for that purpose as well.

[jamesford]

awesome pelle, cant wait for it! i really only use firestasrter to open torrernt ports etc, can firehol do the same?

[ashrack]

hmm i used outpost and peerguardian in xp too, i never had a problem, not that i can remember anyway, its been a while

then your a lucky man, its a well known bug between them

[jamesford]

outpost is/was one heck of a good firewall though, wasnt it? i kinda miss having that control in linux

[ashrack]

outpost is/was one heck of a good firewall though, wasnt it? i kinda miss having that control in linux

One of the best!!!

[clessing]

can you tell me if this works with firestarter? last time i tried moblock and peerguardian it kept disabling my firewall

Hi, I'm the gui who is maintaining http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/.

Please have a look at the scripts in /etc/firestarter. There are two interesting files "user-pre" and "user-post" to customize firestarter.

You should be able to get moblock and firestarter working together if you disable the iptables stuff in /etc/moblock/MoBlock-....sh and add those rules to the firestarter scripts.

Make sure that the moblock rules grab the traffic before firestarter does

[sprucio]

Sorry. Wrong post.