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 > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ -- Florin (florin dot grad at gmail dot com) http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
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