----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
> 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 Burns, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Chuck Logged in as user, su to root, went to (EEK!!) command line, tried both ipchains -F and ipchains -L, got the same error message for both: "Could not run the specified command". In case there was a permission problem, tried logging in as root and using root console for both commands, and got "command not found". Is there somewhere else to look for these default policies? Margot
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