On Monday 26 March 2007 11:12, dwain wrote:
> When I turn my firewall off I can see the other computers on my
> network,  When I turn the firewall on, I can't.  Does someone have a
> solution to this problem on how I can use my firewall and still be able
> to see my network with a firewall or some other setting?


You said you had a router connected to a DSL modem to run your network.

I assume you are turning on your Linux firewall...   why?

What you are telling linux is that "you are connected to the internet (not an 
internal network"  and therefore protect me from everything using the 
firewall".    You just shut yourself off from your own network.

Almost all routers these days are very good firewalls and I would bet that you 
don't have the firewalls on your Windows machines turned on.

But in any event, if you want to run the linux firewall, then you are going to 
have to open up a lot of ports in order to talk to the rest of the network.  
So you are defeating the purpose here of the firewall.
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