On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:37, root wrote: > Hi sluggers > > I am a relative newbie and am having trouble with the whole > firewall-iptables-network address translation thing. I am running Redhat 8 and > recently downloaded the latest version of firestarter thinking that this would solve > the problem but somehow I still can't get the other two computers onto the net. When > I cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I get 1 and the result of "service iptables > status" is as below
First things first, you really need to fix your mail client and log in as your own user - not root. Root should ONLY be used for administering the machine, not for day to day tasks. It's a security risk and, if you're a 'newbie', you can end up doing something that can trash you box. Most, if not all, distributions ask you to create a user on install. Be sure to login as that user and configure things like your mail client to show your real email address (not [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Once you've done that, you can start getting replies to your mail. greeno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
