On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 08:08, Praedor Atrebates wrote: ... > Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this > lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend > but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly > regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). I > killed it and then tried my iptables.sh script again (which DID work in 9.0) > but now, magically, iptables doesn't accept the input and no error messages > appear in any logs either. >
Try leaf.sourceforge.net -- there's some very small images, even floppy-sized if you're willing to forgo niceties like remote management. > My laptop uses dhcp by default as that is what it needs at my job. Setting up > dhcp-server (as required by drakegw) failed initially: bad signatures on > virtually it plus bind and a few other rpms. After I got around this, > dhcp-server was supposedly running but my laptop would repeatedly poll to no > avail. It would not get assigned an IP even though I could clearly see the > data being passed (via gkrellm) over ethernet to my desktop. The desktop > just wasn't doing anything. You've probably set a very restrictive policy and then forgotten to open DHCP. In your /etc/shorewall/rules, make sure you're accepting it. ACCEPT masq fw udp 68 - ACCEPT masq fw tcp 68 - ACCEPT fw masq tcp 67 - ACCEPT fw masq udp 67 - > > What I'd really like at this point is to just get iptables to forward traffic > to the net from eth0 so my laptop can work with the internet through my > desktop. Shorewall and drakegw haven't impressed me at this juncture so I > would prefer to skip them unless someone has information as to why they were > braindead from moment 0 upon setting them up (without any errors or messages > indicating problems or misconfiguration). ' > > praedor While drakgw is definitely somewhat sketchy, Shorewall is a great package and logs like crazy if you tell it to. It's quite worth learning about -- do a little reading at http://www.shorewall.org and quit trying to let Mandrake auto-config it. I also hear good things about gshield, but I haven't tried it yet. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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