On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 7:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Well, I'm sitting behind a hardware cable-modem router with a builtin
> firewall and most people tell me that I'm relatively (love the vagaries of
> that word!) safe behind it.
>
> Still, in the interest of being safety minded, I installed and am running
> Shorewall (this is under v9.2). The problem is, I can't get my other 2
> comps on my LAN to work with NFS when Shorewall is running. My main comp is
> the NFS server and my sons are the clients. They get a RPC timeout with
> Shorewall running.
>
> I searched google and the Mandrake archives - there were tons of Shorewall
> and NFS messages but nothing I needed.
>
> I tried this in /etc/shorewall/rules:
>
> (AFAIK, 111 and 2049 are the ports needed for NFS)
>
> ACCEPT        net     fw      tcp     111,2049        -
> ACCEPT        net     fw      udp     111,2049        -
>
> and restarted Shorewall but it didn't help.
>
> Any and all help/pointers/criticisms appreciated! :-)

Look in your syslog to see the port numbers of packets being discarded.

derek

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