Bugzilla – Bug 191461
Firewall - Stop and Start buttons questionable
Last modified: 2006-07-11 10:52:50 UTC
1.Change firewall to Start Manually>Next>Accept 2.RE:Boot 3.Start firewall, changes status to "Firewall is running" > Next >Accept. 4.Go to ANY application in Network Services and you will find "Open Port in Firewall" is inaccible - greyed out. Firewall appears not to be running despite status. 5.Go back into firewall or add any service or "Save Settings and re-start "Service Start" to "When Booting" Next>Finish Firewall appears to be running NOW as if you enter any "Network Service", 'Open Port in Firewall" IS now accessible - presume working. 6. Stop Firewall - change nothing else. Status changes to "Not Running" >Next>Accept 7.Go to ANY application in Network Services and you will find "Open Port in Firewall" is accessible. This would indicate firewall IS running. It appears that the Start and Stop firewall buttons alone have no effect on the status of the firewall. There MUST be a change of some type to either service start, an addition or deletion of a service. Suggest that functionality of "Save Settings and Restart" should replace "Start Firewall and replacement for stop firewall be changed to Save Settings and Stop Firewall 100% reproduciable.
This is an issue with CWMFirewallInterfaces library that doesn't report the current state well. Something like: Firewall is running but not enabled, Firewall is enabled but not running, etc. This library is planned to be rewritten, at least partly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145841 ***