My firewall issues

farli farli at deru.com
Mon Aug 18 13:46:23 MST 2008


All the systems have been restarted since the phone line was repaired.

The iptables command is not found on the firewall system.

SNF stands for Single Network Firewall.

I am not sure how it gets the rules.

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:33 -0700, farli wrote:
>> I have a firewall running Mandrake SNF which connects to the internet 
>> via a dialup connection and connects to three other boxes, one vista, 
>> one mandrake 2006, and one mandrake 2007, thru a four port hub.
>>
>> Need any more info?  I am not a genius here, but I know a little bit 
>> about this internal network of ours.
>>
>>
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:05 -0700, farli wrote:
>>>> OK - current status: firewall allows access to only https sites, not 
>>>> http, I can ping the firewall box from any of the other boxes, I cannot 
>>>> ping any other box from the firewall nor can I ping any box from any box 
>>>> except the firewall.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what is going on with my firewall box?
>>> ----
>>> Crystal ball cloudy...need actual information
>>>
>>> what is 'firewall box' ?
>>>
>>> Appliance?
>>>
>>> Computer running what OS?
>>>
>>> Craig
> ----
> OK - gathering that the issue is that this system has worked well for
> ___ amount of days/weeks/months/years and all of a sudden, this is a
> problem...
> 
> Have you updated or restarted this Mandrake system?
> 
> What is output of iptables -L -n on this system ?
> 
> Does 'SNF' stand for something important?
> 
> Where did the 'firewall' rules/scheme come from? A set of
> scripts/instructions from some URL?
> 
> Craig
> 
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