Simple question concerning multiple network interfaces

Hi,

I've had little luck trying to find out if Look'n'Stop rules apply to every network interface available, although only one is selected? I presume this is not the case, but would like someone to verify this.

I did find out that I might simply launch another instance of LnS to cover the second interface (Hamachi client in my case), but I always prefer to keep the amount of running processes to a minimum.

Love this firewall so far, but it seems Hamachi's developer doesn't. And phant0m, if you read this thread, thanks for the great ruleset! Took a while for me to figure it out, since I've only used Kerio and Sygate before, but it was worth it.

 

Hi,

You are correct, there is no way to have one Look 'n' Stop instance working on several network interface.
If you start several instances, note that only the application is started twice, (dll, drivers are started only once) and Application Filtering is enabled only in the first instance, so actually the additional process would not consume a lot of CPU (all the important work is done in the driver, the looknstop.exe process is there only for configuration and log display).

Frederic

 

Excellent, thanks for the quick response.

 

It appears there is a bug related to having several instances of LnS running at once:

If I close Hamachi (and the virtual driver it uses) while an LnS instance is monitoring it, I will get a BSOD. A friend also had a crash occur when he accidentally picked the same network interface in two LnS instances, possibly a BSOD - I'll have to ask him for details later. The OS in both cases was XP SP2.

 

Could you send me the Minidump file (from c:\windows\minidump) at lnssupport@soft4ever.com ?
Also tell me what was the version you were using exactly (2.05, 2.05p2 or 2.05p3).

Thanks,

Frederic

 

Just sent the minidump file to you. I'm using version 2.05sp2 right now.

 

Yes, this is a known issue, you must ensure, the two instances really work on
two different network interface.
Especially, this means the automatic selection can't and must not be used when using 2 instances.

Frederic

 

Thanks for the response. Both me and my friend had disabled automatic selection.