On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:33 am, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wed, January 29 2003 5:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > Hi Margot! I haven't followed this whole thread but if I may say, your > > ISP Is full of shit. ZA has nothing to do with them. It just shields > > your comp from outside of the LAN computers. IE, Net comps on the other > > end. > > Actually, that's not QUITE true, perhaps her ISP uses some transparent > proxying that ZA blocks. I have seen cases where firewalls DO cause > problems with certain ISPs. Although, that is not her problem, that is the > ISP's. Or, perhaps they have a very non-standard way of giving her internet > access, perhaps using some sort of virtual networking, automatically set up > at their end. If this is the case, then 9 times out of 10, any firewall > would break it. I could get quite technical, in the ways it could happen.. > But there is no time, nor is this the proper place. > > However, to help you with your problem, I would suggest that you, at the > (EEK!!) command line, su to root, type ipchains -F, then ipchains -L and > see what the default policies are.. INPUT and OUTPUT should be allowed.. If > they are, then we have another problem, but it's a start.
Chuck - wouldn't it be sensible to switch off the firewall altogether until we are sure that she has a connection set up? Then you or someone else knowledgeable could help her get the firewall right, knowing that there wasn't two problems? As far as I know she hasn't actually managed a connection yet. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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