[plug] re: cannot ping internet from desktops

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 14:05, Jon Miller wrote:
> Got a client that has a rh8 server with shorewall firewall.  this
> server has 2 nic one attached to the ADSL cisco router supplied by
> telstra.
> Their routing table looks okay, by this the default gateway is the IP
> address of the ethernet port of the ADSL router, the private IP
> address is listed to go through the def gw.  I double checked
> everything in this with a comparison of my routing table minus the VPN
> entries.
> 
> What was happening last night was from the server we could ping the
> internet, however from the desktop they couldn't yet the desktops had
> their def gw set to the Linux server.  Can anyone lend some light as
> to why the desktops cannot access the Internet?

Some thoughts - perhaps useful, perhaps not:

      * Are you forwarding the packets from the internal network to the
        external one?
      * Are packets going out, but the replies not coming back?
      * Can you ping the server from the outside?

Onno Benschop 

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