From: Alex Boag-Munroe (ajbm@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 13:38:59 PST
Would you be so kind as to send your ipchains -L -n output? Also your
pmfirewall.rules.local file (as an attachment).
I use Mdk 7.2 and don't have a problem.
On Sunday 12 November 2000 20:25, you wrote:
> I wrote about this a few weeks ago and no-one was able to help, so I'm
> writing again. Since my previous request for help, I've updated from
> Mandrake 7.0 to 7.2 and re-installed pmfirewall, but I still have the same
> problem as before. I hope someone can help.
>
> I downloaded pmfirewall and installed it after reading all the
> documentation. I also followed an excellent on-line tutorial on the Linux
> Mandrake site. All the questions and answers in the installation process
> (sh install.sh) were explained very well.
>
> I have a LINUX box (Pentium 500) with two NICs - eth0 connects to my home
> network and eth1 connects to an ALCATEL ADSL modem. Before installing
> pmfirewall, I could connect to the INTERNET and do anything I want on the
> LINUX box. The WIN98 box, did not see the INTERNET. The point of installing
> pmfirewall was to act as a firewall on the LINUX box and also top provide
> IP Masqerading to allow the Win98 box to surf the INTERNET.
>
> After running pmfirewall start, I could no longer do anything on the
> INTERNET - I couldn't reach any address with PING, TRACEROUTE, OR Netscape.
> This applies to both the LINUX box connected via ADSL to the INTERNET and
> to a WIN98 machine on the network.
>
> Although during the install process, I answered all the **default** answers
> (except of course to identify eth0 as my internal device and eth1 as my
> external device) I thought maybe I'd set up one or more of the rules
> wrongly. So as an experiment, I re-installed and this time answered all the
> **wrong** answers and allowed **EVERYTHING** (obviously not the intent of
> the FireWall but I was experimenting) to see if this would solve the
> problem. But I still couldn't do anything on the INTERNET. Running
> pmfirewall stop immediately solved the problem.
>
> The strangest thing is that if I run pmfirewall masqstart, I can use both
> machines. I can now surf the INTERNET from the WIN98 machine on my home
> networ k. So the IP Masquerading part of the program is working. But the
> Firewall is **too good** and apparantly blocking everything!!!!!
>
> Any ideas what to look for to see why this is happening??
>
> If anyone is interested, I'd be glad to send configuration files and/or the
> output of "ipchains -l" before and after each command.
>
> TIA
>
>
> //-------------------------
> Shlomo Solomon
> E-Mail: solomon@barak-online.net
> http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
> Date: 12-Nov-2000 Time: 21:54:12
>
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