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.
>
>
next prev parent 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]
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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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