Hi all, I have recently installed homeLANsecurity firewall http://homelansecurity.sourceforge.net/install.php on my system running on vmware. When the firewall gets activated at startup (since i have put it in rc.local) it prevents me connecting to the internet. I have also turned on DNS, HTTP, DHCP but it still wont even ping any domain apart from its (eth0) IP address. I understand it is used for a system with 2 NICs but i have just one (WAN interface) thus i carefully commented out code having to do with eth1. could someone help me pls? many thanks in advance.


PS: I use CentOS4.4 on vmware.

When you created the guest settings in VMWare did you select NAT for networking? If so, did you set your guest OS to use DHCP? If you can only ping your eth0 interface, I suspect either you don't have a namerserver setting set correctly and/or your routing table is incorrect in your guest OS. If you don't run your firewall, are you able to reach the Internet? If so, you have a misconfiguration in your firewall rules.

many thanks. its now sorted..i realised i turned off DHCP for vmware on the host.