Hello all,
Thanks for all your advice I will probably use one of
the distro/products suggested.
I did figure out why it didn't work. I already had
the RH firewall enabled so that took precedences.
When I disabled it I was then able to use that command
and it worked just fine.
Thanks again.
--- Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, scty Library wrote:
>
> > No, that did not work either.
>
> Allow me to demonstrate this one:
>
> [root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64
> time=0.049 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=0.047 ms
>
> --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss,
> time 1002ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.047/0.048/0.049/0.001 ms,
> pipe 2
>
> [root@emyn ~]# iptables -A INPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p
> icmp -j DROP
>
> [root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet
> loss, time 1002ms
>
> [root@emyn ~]# iptables -L INPUT -xnv
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 29425 packets, 14876789
> bytes)
> pkts bytes target prot opt in out
> source destination
> 2 168 DROP icmp -- * *
> 0.0.0.0/0 127.0.0.1
>
> [root@emyn ~]# iptables -D INPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p
> icmp -j DROP
>
> [root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64
> time=0.050 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=0.047 ms
>
> --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss,
> time 1017ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.047/0.048/0.050/0.007 ms,
> pipe 2
>
> It should be the same for you.
>
> Kind regards,
> -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx,
> http://dag.wieers.com/ --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are
> transmission errors]
>
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