hi can you just type iptables -nL -t nat and paste here, or just do iptable -F and check and u able to ping ? hare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manikandan.P" <linuxmani@myrealbox.com> To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: (no subject) > Hi all, > > In my n/w iam using iptables firewall in my gateway and now the problem > is iam able to use that machine as a default gateway for all the > windows machines in my network but i cannot even ping the > gateway/firewall from linux machine. > the strange thing is if i ping a client linux machine from the firewall > it pings and from then onwards i can ping/use the gateway to browse the > net even from a linux machine. > every time if i want to use that g/w from a linux machine i had to > ping the client machine from the firewall to enable it. > iam using iptables 1.2.5/Redhat Linux 7.3 > > > can any body help me out to resolve this strange problem > > Manikandan P. > > -- > # get Subject header, but remove initial "Subject: " portion > sed '/^Subject: */!d; s///;q' > >
