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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