Hi

(i know little about these kind of programs/networking.. but am trying)

I have installed PW and BLM. I believe i have successfully sourced a blocklist into BLM (since I see a lot of Ip ranges on the screen in red with rule type DENY. I have then have imported these into PW successfully (i believe) because in PW I get a message "IP table loaded. There are 618030581 known IPs in 45753 ranges".

So as far as I can gather, I have set the programs up correctly (from a keeping it simple point of view) therefore PW now be able to block.

FYI - I have XP, a wireless network card connection and a normal LAN card connection. As I type this, I am using my wirelness network connection and it is that connection which i have selected in PW.

I tried to use "angry ip" to test the blocking but I see no results in PW - no info on granted packets/traffic let alone any blocked packets.

Could someone please help me with a step-by-step instruction as to how I can test the blocking?

Thanks in advance

Darryl

@ Guest_Darryl,that looks like the default file in pw is still in use,check blm again m8 you are not exporting to the right place i think,did you restart after export and check pw ip filter size again,tried the help files?you may need to register if the problem continues and post in pw support forums,ok m8
mark

Guest_Darryl,

Once you think you have it working add some place that's not really bad but you'd never normally go there to your Inclusions list in the BLM. Not to pick on anyone, but I chose Toys-R-Us so I have a line in the Inclusions.txt file that reads:

207.171.166.022 - 207.171.166.022 , 000 , www.toysrus.com (test)

I made a shortcut on the desktop to http://www.toysrus.com/

Re-run the BLM to incorporate your changed Inclusions.txt file.

With ProtoWall running, if I double-click on that shortcut ProtoWall should flash red in the tray and show it's blocking, and therefore working ok.

Packet to "www.toysrus.com (test)" ( 207.171.166.22 ) blocked. [protocol: TCP - src: 1786 / dst: 80]
--CF

Remember to make sure you have logging enabled too, and that logging to video won't work unless you have logging to disk enabled.

Also as stated you really should register and post this in the most apprpriate forum, this probably could have been answered by questions previously posed on the site by others.

Remember to make sure you have logging enabled too, and that logging to video won't work unless you have logging to disk enabled.

Also as stated you really should register and post this in the most apprpriate forum, this probably could have been answered by questions previously posed on the site by others.