Hi, folks: I have a new machine running Linux 2.4.20 set up as a bridge between an outside cable service and an internal home network. The outside NIC uses DHCP, and the inside network has a fixed IP address system.
As things stand now, when I take down the firewall established by the default firestarter config script, I can see the inside network and the outside network from the bridge. From the inside machines I can see all the other inside machines and the bridge, but not the outside world. So both NICs are working correctly. When I put the firewall back up, I can no longer see the inside machines, and they can't see me, but they can still see each other. So the problems that I have are that the default firewall is not permitting any traffic to the inside network, and the firewall is not forwarding appropriate inside traffic to the external NIC with masquerading. I had gotten pretty much up to speed with ipchains, but iptables is very new to me. Could you answer three questions for me: 1. What is the magic to open my internal network (eth0) to all traffic. 2. What is the magic to permit forwarding and masquerading of the internal traffic directed to outside machines? 3. What is a good source of documentation about iptables so that I can get up to speed with it. Many thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. Larry Hunsicker __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
