Sorry, the bastille firewall IS ON,
I tried service bastille-firewall stop and some rules scrolled on the screen
= it was working ():-)
but after i stopped it, I noticed the following:
1- I lost the connection sharing , the win machine cannot see the internet
anymore.
2- I CAN ping 192.168.0.1
OK - a few point I can clarify, although I can't answer all of them.
Obviously I can't read iptables settings 'cause I couldn't see any
reason why local packets would be rejected. But yes, stopping the
firewall will stop your connection sharing. This is not just a firewall
to keep things out -
Oops - forgot to address the DHCP question.
I should imagine that your eth1 interface would be set to get its
address via DHCP unless you are paying for a permanent address. So this
being the case, yes it will mess with your host name.
Brian
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:13, Hanan Shargi wrote:
I also noticed something else ( I noticed this a few days ago ) every time I
change the following line in /etc/hosts file :
192.168.0.1 hanan.myisp.comhanan
DHCP isn't supposed to affect that IP. That IP is by definition a
private network IP.
What you might be mising is that you
