[top posting moved!] On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:53, Michael Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:12, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > At home I have a desktop computer and a laptop both have Redhat 8.0 > > installed. Both of them are networked so that the desktop acts as a > > gateway/router for the laptop. > > > > So far I don't have any trouble updating packages for the desktop > > computer using RHN updater which is connected directly to the internet, > > however I cannot update my RH installation for the laptop unless it is > > connected to the internet directly without using the desktop as the > > gateway/router. The error message is: Network Error 111: Connection > > refused. > > > > Is there a way to solve this? > > The desktop is acting as a firewall for anything sharing internet access > through it. I'm not sure exactly how you configure that but, the info > might help. You need to figure out what port RHN uses, and then open > that on whatever you can think of. Actually, the rhn applet and up2date don't get originating connections from outside, therefore if your firewall allows ESTABLISHED and RELATED connections in, then you should be fine. A simple way to check this is to see if you can 'surf the net', and ping outside your LAN from the laptop, using the desktop as the router. If not, the problem lies in your firewall/routing somewhere. If you can do this however, then the problem is probably somewhere else. I just checked the rhn applet to see what ports it uses, and after domain name resolution I get lots of 443 activity (https) so to be really sure, see if you can connect to a https site somewhere. The up2date "process" uses some other ports I think, but again if you can surf, then this should work. What command precisely is giving the Network Error? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Alexander Pope
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