On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Jason Opperisano wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:04, Giancarlo Boaron wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm testing a new iptables script on my server box but > > after some minuts that this script is running, the > > clients in my LAN have no access to Internet. > > I'm using SQUID for proxing and caching. <snip> > i've been batting about zero with my stabs in the dark here > recently--but here goes... Heh, nice way of putting it. > is it possible that you get your external IP via DHCP; and that you're > blocking the DHCP packets between your firewall and the ISP's DHCP > server. so you get an IP, start up your firewall, and at the first > semaphore period, and either the DHCP server or client decides the > other is no longer there, and your IP gets released? Isn't "some minutes" a rather short time for a DHCP lease to expire though? That said, I'm not even going to swing for this one until we get some more information. -- mors omnia vincit
