[luau] disabling iptables

[Ronnie T Livingston]

thanks Ben, adjusting the security is dont via /sbin/setup  ??

-Ronnie

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On Fri, 31 May 2002, Ben Beeson wrote:

> Ronnie,
>
> 	Just a thought, if you are running a proxy server, it may need to be
> configured to let you do what you are trying to do.  The firewall probably
> won't effect this,  but a proxy may be telling your traffic to go outside and
> then come back in, and you may not be able to do that.  Also, you may want to
> check your routing tables to see if there is a path to your destination.
>
> 	Also, I seem to remember that RH has a security option on setup.  I can't
> find it right now, but if you chose max security, or defaulted to it, you may
> have locked yourself out of a few things.  I made this mistake once, and
> after I fixed it everything worked OK.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ben
>
> On Friday 31 May 2002 12:06 am, you wrote:
> > hi Ben, I've been having problems where I cant ping, ssh, or view webpages
> > from my server from the local LAN at work.  I thought it might be the
> > firewall causing this.  I don't know if I disabled it correctly but I went
> > to setup and unchecked iptables and rebooted, then ran that the command I
> > stated earlier and didn't see any rules so I assumed it worked.  My
> > problem still occurs so I guess the firewall wasn't the problem after all.
> >
> > -Ronnie
> >
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