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From: "Manikandan.P" <linuxmani@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: strange
Date: 08 Nov 2002 20:49:57 +0530
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To: hare ram <hareram@sol.net.in>
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 20:27, hare ram wrote:
> hi
> 
> can you just type 
> iptables -nL -t nat
> and paste here, or
> just do iptable -F and check and u able to ping ?
> 
i hv set the default policy as drop hence if i flush 
the rules i cannot ping it.
moreover the problem is only with the linux boxes ,all my windows
machines happily use the gateway.

Manikandan P. 
> hare
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Manikandan.P" <linuxmani@myrealbox.com>
> To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:22 PM
> Subject: (no subject)
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  In my n/w iam using iptables firewall in my gateway and now the problem
> > is iam able to use that machine as a default gateway for all the
> > windows machines in my network but i cannot even ping the
> > gateway/firewall from linux machine.
> >  the strange thing is if i ping a client linux machine from the firewall
> > it pings and from then onwards i can ping/use the gateway to browse the
> > net even from a linux machine.
> >  every time if i want to use that g/w from a linux  machine i had to
> > ping the client machine from the firewall to enable it.
> >  iam using iptables 1.2.5/Redhat Linux 7.3
> >  
> > 
> >  can any body help me out to resolve this strange problem
> > 
> > Manikandan P.
> >  
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> 
> 
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