On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 20:47, Matt W. wrote: > From: "Michael Torrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:12, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > > > thanks for your reply. how do i turn the firewall on/off? > > > > /etc/init.d/iptables stop > > Um, I don't use iptables, but doesn't it handle nat as well as filtering? > If he shuts that off doesn't he kill the connection for all his computers > behind the wall?
True. That's why he'd better learn iptables. > > Regardless, I don't see the purpose of shutting off iptables (remember, > author is not user-of-iptables). Shouldn't he just reconfigure it to "open" > the neccessary ports? If he's doing NAT then I would assume he's familiar with iptables. From the sound of things he's not. Who set it up? Actually my firewall forwards and masquerades just fine when I clear out all the iptables. Weird, isn't it. If someone could shed light on this, that would be cool. (When iptables are up, it doesn't do masquerading rather it does source and destination natting, which are equivalent but "more correct" than using the MASQ target. And it blocks ports rather nicely.) > > Wade, if/when you do open a port for sendmail make sure that it is updated > for security reasons. > > Matt > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
