You were right on. It was a ppp issue. Thanks for the tip. Justin -----Original Message----- From: netfilter@tommi.org [mailto:netfilter@tommi.org] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:05 PM To: Justin Kay Cc: Netfilter (E-mail) Subject: Re: iptables and Poptop I belive this is a PPP issue, try looking up the ppp proxyarp option. - Tomas Edwardsson - Unix/Linux Support - Opin Kerfi HF On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:26:30AM -0700, Justin Kay wrote: > From: Justin Kay <jkay@nwrecc.org> > To: "Netfilter (E-mail)" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> > Subject: iptables and Poptop > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:26:30 -0700 > > I am trying to set up a server as a firewall/vpn server. I am using > iptables 1.2.6a and poptop 1.1.3. I can connect to the poptop server just > fine from the internet. I can ping to the 10.0.0.1 address that my poptop > server uses on the internal interface from the poptop client, but I don't > get any further that that. I can't ping anything else internally (ten net > addresses) and I can't ping out to the address issued to the poptop client > from a LAN machine. Any ideas on where to look? > > Rules: > > ########################## Policy Section ######################### > > $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP > $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP > $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP > > ####################### User defined chains ##################### > > $IPTABLES -N icmp_packets > > $IPTABLES -A icmp_packets -p ICMP --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A icmp_packets -p ICMP --icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A icmp_packets -p ICMP --icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A icmp_packets -p ICMP -s $LAN_IP_RANGE -j ACCEPT > > ########################## Input Section ################################ > > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $LO_IFACE -s $LO_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $LO_IFACE -s $LAN_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $LO_IFACE -s $INET_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $LAN_IFACE -s $LAN_IP_RANGE -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -d $INET_IP -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ > -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i ppp+ -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ICMP -j icmp_packets > > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "INPUT chain " > ########################### Forward Section ############################# > > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -d $NT --dport 25 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -d $NT --dport 110 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -d $TETON --dport 80 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -d $TETON --dport 443 -j ACCEPT > #$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p ICMP -j icmp_packets > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i ppp+ -o $LAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix "FORWARD chain " > ########################### Output Section ############################### > > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -s $LO_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -s $LAN_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -s $INET_IP -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -s $INET_IP2 -j ACCEPT > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "OUTPUT packet died: " > > ########################## end script #################################### > > Justin