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From: "Ray Anderson" <rsa@rb-com.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: RE: Cannot Ping Local Network after Executing rc.firewall script
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c407bf$b05e8930$2405010a@rsa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403112315.18267.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>

The other thing to check is the ipv4_forward value.

In some linux distros, the ipforward option needs to be set up in the
/etc/sysconfig/network script, and isn't set automatically with iptables
restore.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org 
> [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of Antony Stone
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:15 PM
> To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot Ping Local Network after Executing 
> rc.firewall script
> 
> 
> On Friday 12 March 2004 5:59 am, Harish Sabnani wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am using Iptables with Ip Masquearde, with a simple 
> rc.firewall script to
> > share my internet connection for the last so many months, today I
> > configured a new server with the same settings but after the script
> > executes I am not able to ping computers in my local 
> network and the moment
> > I restart the Iptables I am able too?I just dont understand 
> where I am
> > going wrong?Any pointers will be apprecaited.
> 
> It sounds like your netfilter rules are not being loaded on startup.
> 
> Check your startup scripts (what, and where, they might be, 
> depends entirely 
> on your Linux distribution) to make sure that your ruleset is 
> being loaded 
> when the new system boots up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antony.
> 
> -- 
> If you can't find an Open Source solution for it, then it 
> isn't a real 
> problem.
> 
>                                                      Please 
> reply to the list;
>                                                            
> please don't CC me.
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-12  5:59 Cannot Ping Local Network after Executing rc.firewall script Harish Sabnani
2004-03-11 23:15 ` Antony Stone
2004-03-11 23:22   ` Ray Anderson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-12  6:08 Harish Sabnani
2004-03-11 18:30 ` Rob Sterenborg
2004-03-11 18:23 Daniel Chemko

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