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.) -- Mother is the invention of necessity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice & Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A
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