Re: iptables question

Peter Sheldon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.guarddog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I presume, because you don't say so, :-)
that both PC's are connected directly to the internet via ether ADSL or a modem?

What distribution are you running?

I may not be able help you but I know that the above info is needed

regards
peter

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:26:44 -0500
[email protected] wrote:

> I have two computers both running Fedora Core 4.  I recently came across
> GueardDog and decided to give it a try.  On the one computer everything
> seems fine.  On the second computer, I am having some oddities.
> 
> For example, if I run "service --status-all" it reports back that the
> firewall is stopped.  Running this on the working computer it will show
> the ruleset for the firewall.  
> 
> If I type "service iptables start" it returns no results.  If I run
> Guarddog and apply the configuration, then type "service iptables start"
> it returns 3 lines:
> Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
> Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter                    [  OK  ]
> Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
> 
> Then if I run "service --status-all" immediately afterward, it still
> shows the firewall is stopped.  Using chkconfig I have made sure that
> iptables is set to run for runlevels 2-5.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick
> 


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