Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:48:12 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 03 mar 11, 22:08:00, Jason Hsu wrote: > > > > What's going on? How can turning OFF a firewall block Internet > > access? I thought that the purpose of a firewall is to BLOCK > > connections, not MAKE connections. > > Shorewall

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 22:08:00, Jason Hsu wrote: > > What's going on? How can turning OFF a firewall block Internet > access? I thought that the purpose of a firewall is to BLOCK > connections, not MAKE connections. Shorewall is not just a firewall (frontend), it can be used to activate the NAT,

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/04/2011 10:42 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: I tried "shorewall clear", but that also disabled my Internet connection. Again, I had to start Shorewall up again to restore my Internte connection. Then it is as Stan had said, stopping shorewall disables your NATing as well. Follow his advise and

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:51:13 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > How are you stoping shorewall ? if you issue a shorewall stop, it goes > in to a lockdown mode. You have to issue a shorewall clear to allow all > traffic. > I tried "shorewall clear", but that also disabled my Internet connection.

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/3/2011 10:08 PM: > My setup: > Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer > > The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, > and SSH. > > I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/04/2011 09:38 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: My setup: Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, and SSH. I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from another lo

Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
My setup: Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, and SSH. I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from another location by using SSH. But that's not the subje