On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:42, Alex Fisher wrote:
> Rolf Pedersen wrote:
[...]
> Actually, the problem is almost certainly in Shorewall. I had a similar
> problem, which started straight after I tried to confugute Connection
> Sharing. That involved the installation of Shorewall, which up till then I
> had not installed. Whereas previously I'd had no problems accessing the
> Internet, after installing Shorewall I got nothing (zero, nada, zilch...).
> I tracked it down eventually to the fact that Shorewall was installed but
> not running.
If shorewall is shut down - it by default shuts down everything except what is
meant to be open. Don't know the name of the config-module anymore ;) Sorry.
This is the pessimistic approach - which is IMHO correct.
So - to get it to work - install Shorewall correctly - and activate it - and
it will work.
Cheers
Joerg
> Try one of these options...
>
> First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the
> connection with any other machines, use
> "K-->Configuration-->Packaging-->Remove Software to remove Shorewall from
> your system completely. Your connection should work fine after that...
>
> or
>
> If you are sharing the connection with an other machine, you need Shorewall
> to enable the sharing. So Try this...
>
> Open the Mandrake Control Center, click on "Security" and select the
> Firewall entry on the Right-hand side. In the next dialog tick the top box
> "Everything (no firewall)" and click OK. (Unless you have a static IP
> and/or sensitive material on your machine, this is enough for you.
>
> If you want to "fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend
> installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much
> finer control over the ruleset.
>
> One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake
> 9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a second machine sharing via
> eth0.)
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