Bug 9015 - drakfirewall creates too long names for long WLAN SSIDs
Summary: drakfirewall creates too long names for long WLAN SSIDs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8960
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Blin
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Reported: 2013-02-09 13:43 CET by Dag Nygren
Modified: 2013-02-19 20:49 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: drakx-net-1.18-1.mga3
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Description Dag Nygren 2013-02-09 13:43:28 CET
Description of problem:
Setting up your personal firewall with drakfirewall will create longer chain names than 28 characters if the SSID is long enough. This makes iptables barf and the firewall will not start. And as Networkmanager (?) keeps the names and settings for previously visited WLAN:s it is enough if you have ever visited a WLAN like that.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.18-1


How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to WLAN with long name
2. Run drakfirewall and set up your firewall
3. Shorewall will not start due to iptables error

You can work around this by:
1. Remove the WLAN connection from Netwok manager (ie. through plasma applet)
2. Remove the entries in /etc/shorewall/zones for the offending SSID
3. Restart shorewall
Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-09 19:14:39 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Source RPM: drakx-net-text-1.18-1.mga3 => drakx-net-1.18-1.mga3

Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-19 20:23:07 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-19 20:23:16 CET
What could we use instead?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-19 20:24:07 CET
duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8960 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

Comment 3 Dag Nygren 2013-02-19 20:49:43 CET
Perhaps just cut off the name of the chain at the max limit? If you have multiple exchange the last character with 1.2.3.4.5 and os on?

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