Well, when I run drakgw I get prompted for Disable/Reconfigure/Dismiss.
Anyway, you can do an ipchains -X or easier do a /etc/init.d/ipchains stop
and remove it from your rc3.d dir.
Luis
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Paul Hoepfner-Homme wrote:
> I did my configuration with drakgw as well. It doesn't ever provide me with an
>option to turn connection sharing on or off. Here is the sequence of questions I
>get, along with what happens when I choose each possible answer:
>
> 1. Would you like to setup the Internet Connection Sharing?
> OK = program continues
> Cancel = program quits and makes no changes
>
> 2. Warning, the network adapter is already configured. Would you like to reconfigure?
> OK = program continues, and ENABLES Internet Connection Sharing, then quits
> Cancel = program quits and makes no changes
>
> If I invoke drakgw with the --verbose argument, I am also prompted with this
>question after I select OK to question #1 above: "There is only one configured
>network adapter on your system: ... Would you like to setup yor Local Area Network
>with that adapter?" If I select OK here, it just goes on to step 2, or if I select
>cancel, it quits as always, and makes no changes.
>
> So as you can see, there is no option to turn it off. I am left with a crippled
>system that attempts to turn on Internet connection sharing upon ever boot, and fails
>miserably every time.
>
> I also now realize that Mandrake's Internet connection sharing feature is broken in
>two ways:
>
> 1. It is incompatible with the current kernel (no support for iptables)
> 2. It is incompatible with VMware (it doesn't recognize my vmnet1 virtual network
>interface)
>
> These are two major bugs with it, and I wish I knew about them before I had ever
>turned on this feature, seeing as it's apparently impossible to turn it off.
>
> Please, if anyone knows how to turn it off, I would be extremely grateful if they
>would share this secret!
>
> Thank you,
> Paul
>
> --- Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >On 7.2 I did my configuration with drakgw, and then it allowed me to turn
> >connection sharing on and off.
> >
> >Luis
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Paul Hoepfner-Homme wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know how to disable the Internet Connection Sharing feature of Linux
>Mandrake 7.2? I turned it on, it apparently changed a bunch of configuration files
>and added some new services on boot up, none of which work correctly because I am not
>running the older 2.2 kernel. Internet Connection Sharing I am told is incompatible
>with kernel 2.4.
> >>
> >> All I want to do is turn it off. If I have to, I'll figure out a way to set up
>routing and iptables on my own, but for now I just want my system back the way it was.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help,
> >> Paul
> >>
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