On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 20:27, hare ram wrote: > hi > > can you just type > iptables -nL -t nat > and paste here, or > just do iptable -F and check and u able to ping ? > i hv set the default policy as drop hence if i flush the rules i cannot ping it. moreover the problem is only with the linux boxes ,all my windows machines happily use the gateway. Manikandan P. > 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' > > > > > > -- # add a leading angle bracket and space to each line (quote a message) sed 's/^/> /'
