Re: Firewall problems
you have to make sure you have your firewall set to accept ICMP traffic.
to have ipchains handle ICMP traffic you must use something like:
ipchains -A input -p ICMP -j ACCEPT
David
dyaffe@losurs.org
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:10:40PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
>
> I can only half-ping the outside world through my firewall. That is, my
> firewall will forward ping requests, but it won't forward the replies
> (although iptraf reports that it is getting them).
>
> I can also ping the firewall from the workstations, and the workstations from
> the firewall.
>
> I have ipchains -P forward ACCEPT.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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