hello, i checked the hints you posted and here's the output:
and all three SuSEfirewall services are active?
chkconfig|grep SuSEfirewall should look like this: celebrimbor:~ # chkconfig |grep SuSEfirewall2 SuSEfirewall2_final 35 SuSEfirewall2_init 35 SuSEfirewall2_setup 35
everything is 'on' and "grep -Ev ^\(#\|$\) /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2" gives FW_QUICKMODE="no" FW_DEV_EXT="ppp0" FW_DEV_INT="eth1" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_EXT" FW_MASQ_NETS="192.168.1.0/24" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="no" FW_AUTOPROTECT_SERVICES="yes" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="smtp domain 4662 113" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="domain 4666" # Common: domain FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_EXT_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="ssh ftp smtp domain swat netbios-ssn imaps www 4080" FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP="domain netbios-ssn" FW_SERVICES_INT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_IP="" FW_TRUSTED_NETS="" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="yes" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="yes" FW_SERVICE_AUTODETECT="yes" # Autodetect the services below when starting FW_SERVICE_DNS="yes" FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="yes" FW_SERVICE_SQUID="no" FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="yes" FW_FORWARD="" # Beware to use this! FW_FORWARD_MASQ="" # Beware to use this! FW_REDIRECT="" FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DROP_ALL="no" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="no" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="yes" FW_ANTISPOOF="no" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_EXT="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="int" FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST="no" FW_ALLOW_CLASS_ROUTING="no" FW_CUSTOMRULES="" FW_REJECT="no" FW_HTB_TUNE_DEV="" FW_IPv6="" FW_IPv6_REJECT_OUTGOING="yes" FW_IPSEC_TRUST="no" FW_IPSEC_MARK="" FW_LOG="" hope that helps helping me :P luk