Look at your IPChains rules for input and output. Allow any form of
output, and make sure data beinng returned to user ports (ie: ports
above 1024) is allowed to return. (you can use the -y flag to allow
data to return, but not allow new connections to be established)
- Doug
George Ferizis wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running IP Masq on a linux box, with some windows
> boxes on the surrounding network.
>
> It functions fine, I can telnet/ftp whatever from the
> windows box to anywhere external, and can telnet/ftp from
> anywhere external to the linux box.
>
> The only problem I am having however is making
> connections from the linux box to anything external, such as
> telnet or ftp results in a connection refused, the hosts are
> clearly not down, nor is the interface the linux box has to the
> outside world.
>
> Funnily enough pings/traceroutes work fine from the linux
> box to anywhere external
>
> Can anybody suggest anything? The only thing I can think
> of is that the linux box sends out the requests for the
> connection and then attempts to forward the connection
> acknowledgment to somewhere else on the network...
>
>
>
>
>
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