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Re: ping sendto: operation not permitted



Hi,

Have you change back the default policy for INPUT chain?

#iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT

Regards,

Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: <bauer@michaelbauer.com>
To: "Jason McCarty" <bclg@iup.edu>
Cc: <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: ping sendto: operation not permitted


>
> Um, yes, it's not a cable modem.  :)  It's kind of a phone modem - it uses
> the phone wiring in the apartment complex to connect to a line-of-sight
> transmitter on top of the building to provide high-speed access.  It's not
> the modem.  I saw it work just fine on another computer (a W2K box).
>
> I truly suspect it's something I'm doing wrong.  I had thought from the
> previous response that it might be the itpables firewall but I cleared the
> iptables like so:
>
>   iptables clear
>
> and this didn't seem to make any difference.  Any other ideas?
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Jason McCarty wrote:
>
> > > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:AF:6A:A8:9F
> > >           inet addr:192.168.168.120  Bcast:192.168.168.255
> >
> > Based on this, I'd say it's a problem with your cable modem connecting
> > to your ISP (assuming it's cable). Your modem probably configures itself
> > as a DHCP server when it's not on the Internet, which is why it handed
> > out that private address to you. Mine does the same thing when it's
> > having trouble getting on the net. Your modem likely has a web status
> > page, so try browsing to that and look at its status report. For
> > example, my modem has the address 192.168.100.1. Read your modem manual
> > if you can find one, too.
> >
> > If your modem isn't the problem, you might have to send your ISP a
> > hostname or other silly authentication. Also try different dhcp clients,
> > like pump or udhcpc. Have you connected the modem to more than one
> > computer? Some modems don't allow that. To fix it, you'd probably have
> > to hard reset the modem, but it may have an option to reset it on the
> > web status page.
> >
> > I think your best bet is to read the cable modem HOWTO on www.tldp.org.
> > It has information on many many cable ISPs, and the steps necessary to
> > cope with the difficult ones. There's also a DHCP HOWTO there. Of
> > course, if you don't have cable, feel free to ignore this :)
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Jason McCarty
> >
> >
> >
>
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