Does anyone even have a good pointer for me?  Is iptables the right
thing to be trying to understand?  Anyone, please?

Bryan

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 06:40, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> I've written about this before, but now I've realized I can't play
> bzlfag, so it's altogether much more important to fix.  I have two
> computers, both Mandrake 9.1.  One I'll call the router, the other the
> laptop.  The router has 2 network cards, the laptop one.  eth0 of the
> router is hooked to the cable modem, eth1 to a hub.  eth0 of the laptop
> is also connected to the hub.  I used Mandrake internet connection
> sharing wizard to get the laptop connected through the router to the
> internet.  Everything works great, except, I can't ssh from the router
> to the laptop, and the laptop cannot connect to a bzflag server running
> on the router.  Upon further investigation, it doesn't appear that a
> bzflag server running on the laptop can be reached from the router
> either.  I would be less confused but a webserver running on the laptop
> can be reached from the router, as well as the little webserver run by
> cups on the laptop can be reached from the server.  
> 
> Additional information that may be helpful: Shorewall is not running on
> the laptop.  I've pulled up ethereal and ssh packets never make it to
> the laptop from the router.  I've read the iptables manpage and looked
> at the output of iptables -L -v and haven't been able to make much sense
> of it.  I can ssh to the router from the internet, as well as access web
> pages it is serving.  
> 
> Ssh would be nice, I really want to be able to play bzflag on my little
> home network.  What else would a little home network be good for?
> 
> Bryan
> 
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