On Friday 02 March 2001 07:53, Damon Register wrote:
Jerry Kreps wrote:
That 'firewall' thing is annoying. I have mine turned off but the
I am not sure if you are talking about the same problem that I have found. Startup with the firewall turned on in rc.config results in lots of error messages about permission denied. I checked the files in /etc/rc.config.d and I noticed that they all are lacking the execute permission. What's up with this? Has anyone else seen this? Why aren't the files installed with the correct permission?
Damon Register
Yes, I have been having a hell-of-a-heck-of-a-time with this. Once everything was fine with the firewall and everyone could surf and email through my machine (gateway). But I turned my back and the firewall and ipmasq turned to poop. I don't know why. Even had all things setup once using PMfirewall and it took a dump also. PPP, wvdial.dod and SuSEfirewall have been a royal pain. Right now, the only way I could get things to work was to add: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -i ppp0, to boot.local. This is a chicken way to do it, but I ran out of patience. Once I had to change the order of the bootscripts so eth0 would be started before the firewall, otherwise I got really weird messages. In fact I am still getting messages about "split-brained" command, etc. at boot-up, but things still are working. I think something is wrong here, and I suppose it will eventually come up to the light of day. Sorry, this doesn't help much, but I was glad to see it wasn't just me. BTW, I have tried with both 2.2.18 and 2.4 on SuSE 7.1. So much for silk! Tom