On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:42, Alex Fisher wrote: > Rolf Pedersen wrote: [...] > Actually, the problem is almost certainly in Shorewall. I had a similar > problem, which started straight after I tried to confugute Connection > Sharing. That involved the installation of Shorewall, which up till then I > had not installed. Whereas previously I'd had no problems accessing the > Internet, after installing Shorewall I got nothing (zero, nada, zilch...). > I tracked it down eventually to the fact that Shorewall was installed but > not running.
If shorewall is shut down - it by default shuts down everything except what is
meant to be open. Don't know the name of the config-module anymore ;) Sorry.
This is the pessimistic approach - which is IMHO correct.
So - to get it to work - install Shorewall correctly - and activate it - and
it will work.
By hand, I suppose. Is there a tool? I don't like to... work with computers FOR computers. :-)
Olaf
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