On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 14:46, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hello ! > I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a > concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In > DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the > other options as I am not sure yet which services are activated or > disabled. The thing is I cannot either browse the Internet or get > e-mails even having all options enabled. > Could someone lend me a hand ? > TIA
The Mandrake Firewall GUI is pretty simple and often screws up configuration. A common mistake the GUI makes is to get the interface connected to the internet wrong. It will assume eth0 is connected to the net. Take a look at the file /etc/shorewall/interfaces At the bottom you will see something like :- net eth0 detect loc eth1 detect (it may be called masq instead of loc) If you connect via DSL (ppp over atm), or dial up, then replace eth0 with ppp0 If you are not doing internet connection sharing then you do not need the second line. Then restart shorewall with 'shorewall restart' in a root terminal HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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