$author = "Rob B" ; > > At 15:48 1/08/2002, Tim White sent this up the stick: > >Firewall rules? > > To tell the truth, there are none
well, whatever is doing the NAT counts as a firewall rule for large values of 'firewall rule'... ;) > >Maybe you are NATing forwarded traffic only? > > Don't think that this could happen as the box doing the NAt has only one IP > address, and this is what all traffic is NAT-ed to. what he means is that a machine can be setup to NAT for the network behind it but not pass out any traffic for the localhost. so it would be helpful to know: - what major version of the kernel are you using? - ipchains or iptables? - what NAT rules are you using? marty -- And true love waits In haunted attics And true love wins On lollipops and crisps "True Love Waits" - Radiohead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
