Ok! here's some fun that's been causing me to lose my hair in chunks because
I've been ripping it out. I checked out PMFirewall as someone mentioned, and
had initially set it up. Everything seemed fine. However, even though I ran
ipchains -L and it said there were no rules in place, it seems that NOTHING but
icmp packets are allowed through the network anymore. I've smashed my head
against my route table and other things but I just can't figure it out. Nothing
gets forwarded but icmp, everything else is no route to host (from the machines
inside the network that would use the address for eth0 as a gateway),
furthermore, it would seem that eth0's performance has been compromised as well
for some strange reason, data throughput of ANY kind is extremely slow even
though pingtimes are fantastic. I uninstalled pmfirewall and backed out every
other change I can think of, I've shut down and brought up the network,
re-added routes the way they were before, and overall exhausted my brain with
this problem, can someone help please???
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Tib
