Re: [PLUG] New thinkpad with sarge

[Martin DiViaio <scatterbrained@usermail.com>]

On the 24th day of January in the year 2004 you wrote:

> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:21:32 -0500
> From: John Lavin <jlavin@wayreth.net>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] New thinkpad with sarge
> 
> I'm a bit further along - I've been getting the laptop configured the
> way I want it.  I've been fooling with firewalling this thing for the
> better part of the day and can't figure out exactly what's wrong.
> 
> I've used gShield to script the iptables rules and generally, its worked
> great out of the box, but I've been having no end to troubles with
> trying to get it to work on this box.  I don't know if anyone's familiar
> I'm a bit further along - I've been getting the laptop configured the
> way I want it.  I've been fooling with firewalling this thing for the
> better part of the day and can't figure out exactly what's wrong.
> 
> I've used gShield to script the iptables rules and generally, its worked
> great out of the box, but I've been having no end to troubles with
> trying to get it to work on this box.  I don't know if anyone's familiar
> with it, but usually all you got to do is download the tarball, dump it
> to /etc/firewall, change a few well-documented values in the conf file 
> and add it to init scripts and you're done.
> 


Are you behind a nat'ed firewall?

If you are, you will never get anywhere with those rules since you are 
blocking all RFC1918 space.


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