Firewall Failed, Error

[lorenzo]

I'm running the stock firewall on F10 and when I run the sectool
the firewall always fails, It says.

Error, Firewall, No firewall rules in IPv4 INPUT chain and policy
is set to ACCEPT.

There is always one active connection, even when I'm not accessing
the net, no IM, NO browser, NO twitter etc. What is really strange,
when I type anything network history shows an increase in data packets
flowing out.

My brother is the linux geek, but he is in iraq.

Lorenzo