Re: strange

["hare ram" <hareram@sol.net.in>]

looks strange

hare
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manikandan.P" <linuxmani@myrealbox.com>
To: "hare ram" <hareram@sol.net.in>
Cc: <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: strange


> 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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