default mandrake shorewall config is... not so good. Read up on
http://www.shorewall.net, reconfigure it and you'll be fine.


On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 21:06, Joseph Loo wrote:
> I recently installed a fresh copy of Mandrake 9.1 and included the 
> shorewall firewall. I have a modem hookup. When I try to ping a site 
> e.g. www.ibm.com the system never seems to respond. It looks like the 
> firewall is preventing something from happening. I have enable the 
> shorewall to allow everything and none. If I have none, I can ping 
> specific addresses with no problems. It seems to me that the program is 
> not allowing the standard dns client information to either broadcast or 
> receive.
> 
> Note, I also found out that the local systems tied via an ehternet 
> connection will not allow me to ping any addresses. It seems to me that 
> the system allows the ping but does not allow the responds to come back. 
> This is true when everything is blocked but it allows when nothing is 
> blocked.
> 
> At this time I have 2 problems, the firewall can not distinguish the 
> local network versus the internet (I use mandrak configuration tool to 
> add the modem into the syste but no such luck). and the rules needed to 
> allow the internet to communicate.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html


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