Hi,

your firewall setup is obviously wrong, if I'm not mistaking ... 


>Colin Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Colin Close wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been try to get MNF2 beta working for two weeks now and I think I
> > must tbe doing something stupid.
> >
> > The first proble I am having is that I cannot get a reliable loacal
> > interface.
> > I have install on a 400mHz P2 with 64M memory. I am using an 8139 based
> > network card for eth0 at address 10.0.0.151, 255.255.255.0. I cannot get
> > any meaningful communication through this interface. After a clean
> > install I cannot do a local ping i.e as root on the firewall machine
> > ping localhost or ping 10.0.0.151 gets no reply. Pings to outside
> > machines on the same network also result in no reply. If I run Shorewall
> > stop i can ping outside machines on the same network from the FW.
> > Any attempt to ping  FW machine from the local network results in no
> > response. I cannot connect to the admin interface either with the
> > firewall up or down. Over the two weeks I have re-installed a number of
> > times and once ot twice I have had the admin interface working but I
> > have never been able to ping localhost or 10.0.0.151 locally at the
> > firewall.
> >
> > I tried a different network cards a 3COM900B and ne2k based item the
> > 3Com loads the driver but init doesn't bring it up properly since it
> > doesn't seem to load an mii interface for it  and I get an error "no
> > network beat detected). The ne2k based item would not function at all
> > even though the driver loaded ok.
> >
> > Finally a simple question. Is X supposed to install or is this now
> > disabled; when I try and install it I get a message that "X cannot be
> > installed"
> > I see the package on the iso and it installs all the libraries but no
> > server.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Colin Close
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>           Answering my own mail here. A re-install with a newly burnt disk
> and some additional memory seems to have improved matters. A home built
> secure kernel with the small patch for the eciadsl userland modem driver
> allows me to connect to an external internet address from the firewall
> machine via the ppp0 interface as long as the firewall is stopped.  I
> cannot however ping an external host when the firewall is brought up even
> though this appears to be allowed by the rules.
> I can now ping from the firewall machine to local lan addresses but I
> cannot ping the firewall machine from the local lan even though this
> appears to be allowed by the rules.  I can however connect to the admin
> interface and change parameters from the local lan with out any problem so
> the network connection must be ok. If I set a local lan machine to use the
> firewall machine as its default gateway  I cannot ping an external host.
> Am I missing something obvious here; can anyone give me any pointers as to
> where to look for the problem?
> 
> Colin Close
> 
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