Marko Kaening wrote:

> THE PROBLEM is that the firewall gets only started with the ip-up script
> which is executed by wvdial BUT NOT by kppp, since kppp manages everything
> itself. If I want to call SuSEfirewall as a normal user it doesn't work,
> of course...
aeh? tell me if i'm wrong but the ip-up script is called by the pppd?
i dont know much about kppp but i think it's only a gui for pppd nor?
If not maybe you can configure kppp to start the ip-up script after
connect?

> >From my experiments in 1) I concluded that the firewall startup-scripts
> only work if a connection via, say, ppp was already established. So what
> about my dial-up connection. I boot my machine and during that process the
> firewall starts to build-up, BUT since I am not connected yet, since I
> only want to surf or read emails for a short time, the firewall isn't
> properly installed...
sounds like a hostlookup problem for me? maybe you've entered some hostnames
(mailserver from your isp?) and these canot resolved without a ppp connection.

just my 2cents

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