Thanks for the fast and simple response. I knew it had to be easy.

Does this fix open me up to people trying to hack in via the cable
modems internal network?

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:24:17 +0000
> From: Julian Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Problems with 192.168 type ISP DHCP IP
Address
>
> At 06:54 12/02/02 -0700, Lance Robertson wrote:
>
> >See my cable company doesn't give out "real" IPs they use a form of
> >IPMasq themselves so my IP address is 192.168.107.40 on their
internal
> >network. Also my gateway is an internal IP address 192.168.96.0. Well

> >all these addresses are being denied via ipchains. About midnight I
> >finally just flushed everything in ipchains and set it up (somehow)
so I
> >could forward packets for my specific IP address and I finally got
out.
>
> The solution is as simple as commenting out a line in the file
> /etc/ipfilter.conf.
>
> Find the part of ipfilter.conf that says
>
>          # RFC 1918/1627/1597 blocks
>
> It'll be at about line 220 in a virgin Dachstein setup.  A couple of
lines
> below this you'll see the line
>
>          $IPCH -A $LIST -j DENY -p all  -s 192.168.0.0/16 -d 0/0 -l $*

>
> This is the one that's causing you problems, so comment it out.
Backup
> your boot floppy and reboot, and you should be all set.
>
> cheers
>
> Julian
>
>



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