My firewall issues

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 18 13:53:53 MST 2008


if you're not root, then you would have to have the full
path, /sbin/iptables -L -n

Sounds as though 'Single Network Firewall' is a specialized setup which
probably has its own management tools of which I know nothing about.

Craig

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:46 -0700, farli wrote:
> 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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