It was probably pmfirewall (excellent, and deservably popular at the
time) - do a search and you may find it. If not, I may have a copy that
I can look at and see what can be done - email me privately if so.

Alternative is to just email the other office the ipchains command to
open port 22 and make sure sshd is running.

Billk

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 06:12, Damon Lynch wrote:
> Hi fellow Mandrake users,
> 
> I installed Mandrake 7.2 in my old office in India.  I setup a basic
> firewall and Internet sharing using ipchains as I recall.  It was setup
> using a simple script that was very likely recommended on MandrakeUser
> at the time.  Sorry but I don't recall what the script was called! :-) 
> It was pretty cool, it basically walked you through the steps by asking
> questions and then set it up.
> 
> Now I'm in New Zealand and I need to SSH into their box to fix some
> things for them.  I'm suspecting I won't be able to SSH in, since I
> probably blocked that kind of external access with the firewall.  Could
> someone please suggest a simple command to temporarily turn off the
> firewall portion of the script?  Simple enough that a novice with root
> access there could turn it off?  I guess it's OK if the Internet sharing
> is also down for a while, as long as they or me can start it up again!
> 
> Thanks,
> Damon 
> -- 
> Damon Lynch
> Dev-Zone Program Officer
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> 
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