Thanks Tom. I did that but it made no difference. Can you tell me how I can turn Shorewall off? That would prove whether Shorewall is blocking my DHCP incoming packets, or not.
Thanks. David Pitts IT Services Manager Reid Library University of Western Australia Ph: 61 (08) 9380 3492 Fax: 61 (08) 9380 1012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Tom Eastep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 18 July 2002 9:31 AM To: David Pitts Cc: guitarlynn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [leaf-user] DHCP Stuff On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, David Pitts wrote: > Could it be that the firewall is blocking the DHCP data from the ISP? > They're broadcasting on 10.96.4.1. That would assume that the > Dachstein filters were different to the Eigerstein filters and that > Shorewall was blocking the same packets as Dachstein. > > Any ideas?? > The default Bering Shorewall config has the external interface (eth0) configured with 'norfc1918' and RFC 1918 addresses are checked before UDP ports 67 and 68 (DHCP). So.... it may help to remove the 'norfc1918' from the eth0 entry in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
