[plug] Accessing the net via my firewall

[Christian Müller]

At 10:25 11/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>to test to see if your firewalling is causing your greif
>flush the chains
>ie /sbin/ipchains -F input
>
>this will allow to access the web
>I had the same prob when I move to the rh7.1 seawolf version
>installing squid is a bit over the top
>your isp have thier own proxy and unless your have plenty of horsepower 
>and space thier is no need to install squid


with one computer it certainly is a bit over the top, but when you have 
multiple computers than it has an advantage as when multiple computers 
connect to the same webpage, only one instance has to be downloaded

C




>>From: Russ Pitman <rpitman at odyssey.apana.org.au>
>>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>>Subject: Re: [plug] Accessing the net via my firewall
>>Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:36:25 +0800
>>
>>On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:01:21PM +0800, connell wrote:
>> > Russ
>> >       As I understand it, you use ipchains to set up your firewalling, but
>> > 'ipchains forward' is your masquerading that lets your workstation
>> > browser's request thru the firewall machine.  Unless you have the
>> > ipchains forward command set, the browser wont make it out regardless of
>> > whether you have the firewall set or not.
>> >       I am sure someone else will provide a more thorough (and more 
>> accurate)
>> > explanation.
>> >
>> > PaulC
>> >
>>Agreed, tho I rather expected it to work without a firewall installed,just
>>at the networking level.
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>>                     ----russ----
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