From Firewallstate forum Topic:RandSec wrote:Maybe the firewall should be in place all the time, and then status would always be available. The firewall could be explicitly turned off, of course, or modified, as the user desired.bigpup wrote: That was something that had to be done to Firewall status.
Make it delay working, to give time for the network to come on line.
Take a look next time you reboot.
Firewall status will show up in tray about 30 seconds after you get a desktop.
The current scheme of on the one hand: requiring network access to get drivers, and on the other: not having a firewall on by default, is a vital failure. The firewall needs to be up by default before the first network transaction is allowed.
This is why Firewall Status in tray is delayed on boot-up.
has a small script for boot startup which has a 20 second wait for the network connection to finish. In other versions if the network wasn't up it errored out and wouldn't start.