Comment 41 for bug 42759

Firestarter has been dormant for a couple years (yes, there has been a couple patches...). First off, the "service" portion of Firestarter is loading on boot. You can verify on boot-up with a "sudo iptables -L -n"...if you see anything special, Firestarter ran its scripts. So you are "protected". You don't have the GUI on X startup, but that can be fixed by creating a startup entry (and modifying /etc/sudoers if wanted). As a side note, several years ago (might still be in the docs somewhere), the work-around to not have the "failure" was to comment out a couple lines in firestarter.sh). While getting Firestarter up-to-date wouldn't take much, from what I've seen in its scripts (window scaling disabling and such) it can lead to some network stalls in recent distros (not to mention some weird headaches if you like tossing bittorrents around). While I haven't seen a fun real-time GUI interface that would compare with this, users are better off finding another way to build their iptables.