Greetings!
Well, a good firewall should restrict outgoing traffic as well as inbound. I am not sure if this is the case with Mandrake however.
If you cannot find your firewall init script but want to know if the firewall is the cause of your problem, you can do the following for a quick and dirty solution:
As root start a text editor and enter the following lines:
Code:
echo Flushing firewall rules...
iptables -F
iptables -X
echo Setting default policies to ACCEPT...
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
echo done.
Save this file, for example as 'flush-firewall'. Then issue
chmod 700 flush-firewall
to make it executable. Now you can run the script with
./flush-firewall
This will disable any packet filtering, in other words it will disable any firewalling on your machine. Now you can try to ping your router or other hosts and see if it works. If not, the problem is not (or not only) your firewall.
But remember, this is a really dirty solution, better turn your firewall up again as soon as possible. Also I strongly suggest that you read the
Packet filtering HOWTO, the
iptables HOWTO as well as the manual page to iptables (type 'man iptables' without the quotes) and try building your own firewall instead of using the one your distro ships.
Good luck!
i will try it
