Just a thought... if you can't telnet to the box -- are you sure that telnetd is running and listening on the port you are expecting it to be?
kristina On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:15:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm new to Linux and firewalls, but have several years SunOS/Solaris - experience. - - I have just installed 7.3 Personal and opted for the high security - firewall option during the installation process. This is for internal - product testing and will not be used with the Internet. However, I then - decided that I should ensure that all the comms work fine before imposing - rules, so I hunted around and found a reference to gnome-lokkit, which is - not installed (don't ask me why - I don't know), so I tried the vanilla - lokkit (quaint!). I selected No firewall and OK'd that, but when the - window closed I found I'd been told ipchains: Protocol not available. - - RTFMAWP - and found out all about iptables and ipchains and realised that - I want to use iptables. Both iptables and ipchains are defined (and - ticked, for my fellow pedants!) in the Services list, but when I tried ipchains -L I was told ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel (so how come it's in the services config?!). - - iptables -L shows me the three (default, I guess) chains INPUT FORWARD and OUTPUT, - each with a policy of Accept and no rules, so I would have thought that - this would allow me to telnet from another address on the same subnet. Not - so - I can ping both interfaces, which are temporarily on the same network - but can telnet to neither. It appears that ipchains is somehow preventing - access. - - So, other than rebuilding with no security, how can I disable ipchains and - start to build my iptables tables? - - TIA - - /Sam - - Sam Sexton - Reuters Coventry - Reuters Treasury Solutions (Internal) - Reuters Treasury Solutions (public) - Phone: +44 24 7625 6562 - Fax: +44 24 7655 5203 - - ------------------------------------------------------------- --- - Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com - - Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual - sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be - the views of Reuters Ltd. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
