I'm using Mandrake Linux 10, and experiencing a strange problem with Firestarter 0.9.3.

I installed the RPM package for my distro, and everything seemed to be working fine. Port scans showed me that all of my ports were stealed.

The problem is, I can't un-stealth them. I try adding a rule to open a port (any port) and it will allow traffic on that port for maybe a minute, then, even though the rule is still active on Firestarter, it will start to ignore the rule.

Also, if I right-click on the firestarter tray icon, and click "Stop Firewall", it will start itself again in a minute.

I've tried uninstalling Firestarter, and fixing IPTables manually, but i didn't really know what i was doing, so all ports stayed stealthed.

What can i do to disable firestarter?

See if section "rules applied automaticly" checked.
Secondly you can always perform uninstall

I can't seem to find that option. Where is it in firestarter 0.9.3?

Also, I tried uninstalling, but all ports remain blocked. They weren't blocked before I installed Firestarter.

Sorry, missaid
it's in section Policy.
See if "apply policy changes immediately" checked

There is no "Policy" section, i think that is in Firestarter 10.

Anyway, it is being applied immediately, it just forgets that it is a rule in a short while.

what version do you use?

I use Firestarter 0.9.3. It looks like Firestarter 10 is incompatible with Mandrake 10.

I would recommend to compile from source
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...ar.gz?download

To complile 1.0.1, I would need to update GTK+

A little more of a hassle than I am willing to go through to get Firestarter 1.0.1 working, when Firestarter 0.9.3 is supposed to work.

Should I complile 0.9.3 from source? If that doesn't work, how should I go about reversing what Firestarter did?

you may alsotry different firewall. why stick to that of problematic. there are tonns of them "on the market"
guarddog lokkit and so on

Thanks, I went with guard dog, and it works much better.