Yup, I really like MDK although I got a little pissed when I couldn't make it work. Webmin is your friend though, don't forget about him.
--- Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:39, Adrian Madrid wrote: > > Sorry, no expert here but the MDK connection thing > > gave me so many problems that I finally ended > editing > > the heck out of the shorewall webmin module until > I > > had it working. Looks like the MDK module messes > up > > with shorewall and the only way to make everything > > work is to do it manually. > > Yeah, I love that I was able to set-up my home > network in like 20 > minutes with no knowledge, but now that I want to > tweak it...That's the > beauty of Mandrake though, you can get up and > running with stuff so > easily, but still have the freedom of other Linux > distros to go in and > manually hack stuff up as much as you like. > > The Shorewall website (http://www.shorewall.net) > mentions that if you > want to use their documentation Mandrake users will > have to basically > reinstall shorewall and start over. I may be > heading that way soon. > > Bryan > > > > --- Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > List Info: > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: > > > http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ===== > > ----------------------------- > > Adrian Esteban Madrid > > HyperXMedia, Developer > > ================ > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: > http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ===== ----------------------------- Adrian Esteban Madrid HyperXMedia, Developer ================ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
