On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:27 am, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi Y'all > > I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. > Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I > am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or > work on files outside the virtual disk. > > I've tried setting up the following firewall rule along lines suggested > to me some time back by Anne - apparently it worked for her. > > ACCEPT loc:172.16.210/24, !172.16.210.1 $fw all - - > > For me though, no joy. > > > Can anyone tell me if there's something wrong with the rule or if > there's anything else I need to do. I'm a total newbie when > it comes to Shorewall and life's probably > too short to become an expert. > > Another possibility is to install a program that I can use to close the > internet connection when Shorewall is stopped. There used to be such a > thing in an earlier version of Mandrake (8.2, I think) but it's not on > 9.2 which I'm using. This of course would be very much the second best > option. > > Any input gratefully received. I'm surprised this problem isn't better > documented.
You probably have to add the vmnet interface to the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file as a trusted interface. -- /g
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