Re: I don't have a firewall, do I?
Hello
Peter Samuelson (<peter@p12n.org>) wrote:
>
> [Emma Jane Hogbin]
>> Here's a strange problem. Some of my clients can access my new
>> server. Some cannot. The server is at: 66.98.212.88. The folks
>> hosting my server are saying that I have a firewall installed. But
>> I'm pretty sure I don't. At least I sure as heck didn't mean to put
>> one in.
>
> I got through fine. Even with ECN enabled on my box, which is one
> common reason for these kinds of problems.
>
>> My installed packages are at: www.xtrinsic.net/installed.txt
>
> You have 'ipchains' installed, but also a 2.4 kernel image. Those two
> are incompatible (ipchains is the firewall configuration package for
> 2.2 kernels), so I suspect you're not actually using ipchains.
They are not imcompatible, if the kernel has the ipchains compatibility
driver, and the Debian Kernels do. Although using iptables probably
should be preferred.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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