Hello All, I have a bit of a problem and I am not sure how to go about fixing it. As it goes Telstra Bigpond Advance cable sends a heart beat on port 5050, it is a UDP packet, and the built in iptables under mandrake don't let this through, so my connection drops in a most regular fashion. I read the documentation but I still don't know how to open port 5050 in the IP Tables.
Another interesting thing is that ICMP packets are completely blocked from the outside world. And no matter how many times I go into linuxconf and tell the machine to allow ping and tracert requests, it resets itself back to ignoring them. This wrecks havock when I try LANing it (Because samba shares are not visable). Does anyone know how I can fix this heartbeat problem, or can give me an example of how to use the iptables command to add a rule which lets the heartbeat happen? Regards, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
