Sluggers, I've got my Linux gateway doing it's thang (connected to Telstra cable, bpa login and masquerading for the local lan) and it all works fine except that if the iptables rules are in place *before* eth0 (the connection to the modem) is raised then eth0 cannot accept a dhcp response from the cable modem to get it's ip address. (Input policy on eth0 is drop). Ok so no problem, when booting I just start the network before starting iptables, *but* what happens when the dhcp lease expires?....Am I gonna find that in a day or so's time the eth0 drops of the net and it all comes crashing down? Do I need a rule set to accept dhcp replies from the cable modem and if so what?
TIA's Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
