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FWTK FAQ 
version: 4.2 - March 2002
author: Keith Young <[email protected]> .
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  • Support info
    • 0.1 How do I get support for the FWTK?
    • 0.2 How can I join the FWTK mailing list?
    • 0.3 How can I unsubscribe from the FWTK mailing list?
    • 0.4 I am having problems with the mailing list...
    • 0.5 Where can I find an archive of the mailing list?
    • 0.6 What companies provide paid support for the toolkit? Can I provide paid support?
  • Compiling the toolkit under specific operating systems
    •  FreeBSD
      • 1.1.1  "Undefined symbol `_crypt' referenced from text segment" errors
      • 1.1.2 How do you build the toolkit with USE_UDPSYSLOG?
      • 1.1.3 "ld: Error: Undefined: IceProcessMessages..." errors
      • 1.1.4 I get an error while trying to compile daemon.c....
    • HP-UX
      • 1.2.1 How do I compile the toolkit under HP-UX 9.0x?
      • 1.2.2 What is the config to compile under HP-UX 10.20/11.x?
    • Linux
      • 1.3.1 "fwtk/auth/db.c:66: undefined reference to `dbm_open'" errors
      • 1.3.2  "cannot open -libc" or "cannot open -lc" error
      • 1.3.3 "error.c: Parse error before string constant" errors
      • 1.3.4 "ulib.h:23: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory" error
      • 1.3.5 "hmain.c:1060: warning: passing arg 3 of `select' from incompatible pointer type" warning
      • 1.3.6 "Undefined symbol `_crypt' referenced from text segment" errors
    • NeXTStep
      • 1.4.1 How do I compile the toolkit under NeXTStep?
    • SCO
      • 1.5.1 "Symbol signal in /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a is multiply defined" error
    • SGI Irix
      • 1.6.1 "Badly placed ()'s/*** Error code 1 (bu21)" error
      • 1.6.2 I can't compile the toolkit using SGI's compiler...
    • SINIX
      • 1.7.1 What configuration should I use with SINIX?
    • Solaris 2.x
      • 1.8.1 "`LOCK_EX' undeclared (first use this function)" errors
      • 1.8.2 "Undefined symbol _socket _getpeername" error
      • 1.8.3 "undefined symbol: MAXHOSTNAMELEN" error
    • SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x)
      • 1.9.1 SunOS kernel panics
      • 1.9.2 "ld: Undefined symbol _res_query" error
    • Ultrix
      • 1.10.1 I can't get the toolkit to compile under Ultrix 4.0
    • 1.11 FIXMAKE - when to use, when not to
    • 1.12 I am getting "xxx-gw.c: differs from default RCS version" errors when trying to apply a patch.
  • Running the FWTK
    • General Questions
      • 2.1.1 Where can I get example copies of system files, such as rc*, netperm-table, and inetd.conf for FWTK?
      • 2.1.2 Why are my timestamps messed up in my logfile?
      • 2.1.3 I can't seem to get the right files to run chrooted under Solaris.
      • 2.1.4 Why doesn't FTP work with my web browser?
      • 2.1.5 Why are connections to the proxies so slow?
      • 2.1.6 How do I proxy UDP packets with the toolkit?
      • 2.1.7 How do I publish web pages through the firewall?
      • 2.1.8 I am trying to get ftpd (from the toolkit) working....
      • 2.1.9 How do I get the toolkit to run under MacBSD?
      • 2.1.10 Is there a way to setup a VPN using the FWTK?
      • 2.1.11 Is the FWTK year 2000 compliant?
      • 2.1.12 Host address lookups fail with "failed to connect to server test (80) reason: hostname unknown"
      • 2.1.13 I can't start the toolkit; I am getting "Failed to bind to port XXX" or "Address already in use".
      • 2.1.14 Does the proxy hide internal addresses? What are the "illegal" addresses?
      • 2.1.15 Should I be able to ping the Internet from the internal network?
      • 2.1.16 How to I specify a subnet mask in the netperm-table?
      • 2.1.17 Why do I get an "inetd: xxx-gw/tcp: unknown service" error when I start a proxy?
      • 2.1.18 What is the maximum number of ethernet interfaces that the toolkit will support?
      • 2.1.19 How do I enable PPTP using the FWTK?
      • 2.1.20 What is the configuration to allow ICQ?
      • 2.1.21 How do I wrap lines in the netperm-table?
      • 2.1.22 Which is the best way for starting FWTK: inetd or daemon mode in an "rc" script? 
    • auth
      • 2.2.1 I keep getting segmentation faults when adding users
      • 2.2.2 How do I use SecureID/Skey with the toolkit?
      • 2.2.3 Does authsrv ever disable users automatically?
      • 2.2.4 Why do I get "Unrecognized command parameter" errors when adding users?
      • 2.2.5 I am getting lots of "undefined references" when trying to compile.
    • ftp-gw
      • 2.3.1 Why can't I FTP to an Internet site using a command-line FTP program?
      • 2.3.2 How do I FTP through multiple ftp-gw servers?
      • 2.3.3 What does "500 Illegal PORT Command" mean?
      • 2.3.4 Why do some sites refuse my connection?
      • 2.3.5 Why does FTP hang when getting a directory listing or downloading a file?
    • http-gw
      • 2.4.1 My http-gw keeps hanging; Why is http-gw freezing, but the server responds to pings?
      • 2.4.2 How do I get SSL/HTTPS working with the toolkit?
      • 2.4.3 Authentication (-authall) doesn't work with http-gw. How do I get WWW authentication working with the toolkit?
      • 2.4.4 How do I run http-gw and a web site on the same machine?
      • 2.4.5 What does "Network error: net_flags[X] >set (read)" mean?
      • 2.4.6 Why do targets (on pages) with spaces get destroyed?
      • 2.4.7 How do I change the output of http-gw when I connect to FTP sites?
      • 2.4.8 Http-gw keeps core dumping on a BSD variant.
      • 2.4.9 How do I FTP files through http-gw as a specific user?
      • 2.4.10 Why do I get an error like "The response 'http-gw@firewall' is not valid" when trying to FTP in a browser?
      • 2.4.11 Why does http-gw return blank pages to my Netscape browser?
      • 2.4.12 Http-gw causes my browser to display "document contains no data".
      • 2.4.13 How do I forward http requests from the firewall to an internal web server?
      • 2.4.14 URLs like "https://user:[email protected]" don't work...
      • 2.4.15 FTP through http-gw gives a "-501 Unknown ftp problem" error message.
      • 2.4.16 How do I disable FTP access in http-gw?
      • 2.4.17What is the configuration to connect to web servers running on non-standard ports?
      • 2.4.18 Why am I getting "Error - 404.   Reason:  hostname unknown" errors?
      • 2.4.19 What does "network connection closed during write" mean?
    • netacl
      • 2.5.1 I am getting "Transport endpoint is not connected" errors...
    • plug-gw
      • 2.6.1 What is the configuration for POP mail services?
      • 2.6.2 How do I use plug-gw to plug to a second proxy?
      • 2.6.3 How do I plug samba/SMB (for Win95/WinNT file sharing) through the firewall?
      • 2.6.4 How do I allow SQL requests through?
      • 2.6.5 What is the plug-gw config for Usenet News?
      • 2.6.6 How do I make Microsoft SNA Server requests go through?
      • 2.6.7 How do I plug to a Lotus Notes server?
      • 2.6.8 How can AOL clients get through the firewall?
      • 2.6.9 Why is plug-gw denying everything even though it is correct in the netperm-table?
      • 2.6.10 How do I plug LDAP through the firewall?
    • smap/smapd
      • 2.7.1 Smap doesn't work & logs show "bogus queue file, uid=6, mode=100600"
      • 2.7.2 How do I configure smap so that it rejects the mail in a way that the sender does not retry to send the message?
      • 2.7.3 Why am I getting "fwtksyserr: cannot chroot to /var/spool/smap: Operation not permitted" errors?
      • 2.7.4 How does smap handle temp files; what should I do with old xmaXXXX/smaXXXX files?
      • 2.7.5 Smap has received the e-mail, but how do I process the mail queue?
      • 2.7.6 How do I append messages/disclaimers to the bottom of e-mail messages?
      • 2.7.7 Why do I get "SYSERR(smap): prescan: token too long" errors?
      • 2.7.8 Why is mail getting sent with smap username instead of the actual sender? Why am I getting sendmail authentication warnings?
      • 2.7.9 What does "smapd[xxxx]: discarding (OS error) pid=xxxx code=71" mean?
      • 2.7.10 Sometimes I am getting "exiting too much data" errors from smap...
    • syslogd
      • 2.8.1 How do I separate the FWTK logs from the standard syslog file?
      • 2.8.2 How do I create separate log files for each service?
      • 2.8.3 Syslogd will not record anything under Linux
    • tn-gw/rlogin-gw
      • 2.9.1 Why does tn-gw either display double characters, no characters, or echo the passwords?
      • 2.9.2 How do I configure tn-gw to allow me to telnet to the firewall machine itself?
      • 2.9.3 How can I make it transparent for people to telnet through the firewall?
    • x-gw
      • Currently, there are no FAQs for x-gw


      END OF FWTK FAQ INDEX