My ongoing iptables problem...

[Brian Densmore]

If you disabled iptables and cannot reach the internet.
It is not an iptable problem. 
You have a network configuration problem.
What is your router?
Are you running xinetd? inetd? Some other program?

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jose sanchez [mailto:j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:36 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: My ongoing iptables problem...
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know what else to try. I still can't get my
> Linux "router" route/forward an http request from two
> different networks. I can ping and traceroute from one
> to the other but that's it. I can't do anything else.
> 
> Today I tried connecting the router to the internet
> and see if I can ping to the outside from one of the
> networks but I couldn't I get host unreachable error.
> I can ping and traceroute from the router to anywhere
> with no problem. I even disabled iptables (service
> iptables stop). Still can't access the outside from
> the LAN. The weird thing is that I can ping to the
> outside NIC from anywhere in the LAN but can't get
> passed that.
> 
> I have all the systems in the LAN with a gateway
> address 192.168.1.1 (the router's LAN interface).
> IP_FORWARD is enabled, no iptables/ipchains rules are
> running. The router is open and accepting everything
> in the INPUT, OUTPUT, FORWARD. 
> 
> The only thing I haven't done is recompile the kernel.
> I'm running kernel 2.4.7-10 w/ a freshly installed Red
> Hat 7.2 distro, enough memory (128Mb), don't know what
> other info I can give you.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> I promise this will be the last posting regarding this
> problem. I just don't know what else to do.
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your help.
> 
> 
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