[Shorewall-users] newbie question

Tom Eastep
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:45:47 -0000

Wai Yung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m a newbie when it comes to firewalls and Linux.  I''ve
been having
> a difficult time trying to configure Shorewall on Mandrake 9.0.
> Here''s my problem:
>
> - I have a broadband connection thru cable and the cable modem is
>   connected to a Linksys cable/dsl router (befsr41).  I have a couple
>   of Windows machines and a Mandrake 9.0 box connected to the router.
>   They each get a static ip address. (the 192.168.1.xxx kind)
>
> - Mandrake 9 comes with Shorewall preinstalled.  But I couldn''t
get
>   it to allow my windows machines to talk to servers running on the
>   Linux box. (samba, apache, ssh, etc)
>
> - Basically what I want is to have the firewall *not* blocking any
>   connections from my local machines.  How do I set it up?
>
> I looked thru the documentations on the web site, and I still
don''t
> have a clue and couldn''t get it to work.  Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks.

Mandrake chose to ship Shorewall with a configuration different from any
that I provide or recommend. FMandrake haven''t sent me the copy of 9.0
that I ordered from them two weeks ago and I can''t support their
installation of Shorewall unless I can at least see it.

I therefore suggest that you refer questions about Shorewall on Mandrake
to Mandrakesoft.

As such time as I receive my CDs, I will install 9.0 and will then be in a
position to support Shorewall on Mandrake 9.0.