En réponse à richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all, need some help with this one
>
> The machine has 2 NIC's on connected to a local network, which full
> access
> is required from , the other to a cable modem.
>
> I need to be able to route and telnet in to this machine, as well as
> telnet
> to localhost.
> Telnet seems to be disbled.
> any attempt to telnet to port 23 is refused , but I can ftp to it .
>
> I checked in /usr/sbin and in.telnetd was missing, I've tried replacing
> the
> missing deamon with one from a Redhat distro.
> but still no telnet function.
> I also need to be able to disable the firewall so I can run my on
> firewall
I think you have to install the package telnet-server to be able to run telnet.
But, use ssh-open-server, it's much better and secure.
> scripts for ipchains.
> Ive moved from a Suse ditro as I'm fed up with yast rewrinting config
> files
> at random. I like Mandrake but it fails in being too secure.
>
> The immediate thing that must be got functional is routing and masq from
> the
> LAN which has a 44.0.0.0 domain through to the internet.
>
> One thing I do lkike is the ability to use fiixed ip adresses on one
> ethernet
> port and dchp on the port connected to the cablemodem.
>
> Or have I like with Suse to disable the dchp deamon and just use the
> client
> after the first ethernet port is set up so that the second port eth1 can
> be
> used with a fixed ip address..
>
>
> urgent help needed here as a gateway is down at the moment.
>
> TIA richard
>
>
