I had to re-name the ipchains file in etc/sysconfig/ipchains
then everything worked, when you set up 7.2 you probably
told it to give you some level of firewall, it did so and now you
can not get into it from the network. You can after you have
re-named the file build you a new one if you so desire that
will do any firewalling you need.
On Friday 02 November 2001 09:06 L, you wrote:
> hi all.
>
> i just installed red hat 7.2 and i can not get my home network to work. it
> was working perfectly under rh 6.1. the network consists of a linux gateway
> box (machine A), a linux machine (machine B) and a windows98 machine
> (machine C).
>
> i can ping among all three boxes using the local IP address, 192.168.x.x.
> i can reach the internet from the gateway box, machine A. i can ping the
> gateway internet address from B & C. but i can not ping anything on the
> internet from box C. on the windows box the ping error message is "timed
> out" on the linux box (B) it says no packet delivered 100% loss.
>
> where should i look to fine what is causing the problem? thanks for your
> help.
>
> steve edwards
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