Bonjours,
I've just installed mandrake 9.1 a few weeks ago. I got no problems surfing on the internet but as soon as a get my firewall active (I use shorewall included with mandrake pkg) I loose my connection. I have a speedtouch dns modem and use pppoe connection. In my shorewall/interfaces folders it says ; net eth0 detect
I've learn that if I can change this to; net ppp0 detect, it might resolve my problem but I just don't know how to do that. I've tried to change it on the terminal but I'm not really familliar with the commands.
Can anyone help please!!
I'm getting really desesperate about that!

Thanks a lot
Merci!
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Gus

here's a suggestion: stop using shorewall and setup some iptables yourself. i had a whole lot of problems with shorewall running correctly under mandrake 9.0, so i just sat down and learned to use iptables. if you do it, you'll never have to resort to other programs (it comes with the kernel) setting up your firewall, as you'll be able to do it by hand.

if this sounds like a good idea, let me know and i'll give you a basic firewalling script and show you how to use it. if not, gl getting shorewall to work (it was buggy as hell when i tried to use it).

y-p

In your start menu choose applications-->Editors. Take your pick of these. Open the file you want to change in this text editor, make your changes and save the file. Then the command "shorewall restart" issued as root should get you up.
I restart shorewall immediately after making my PPPOE connection!

i'd recommend always having your firewall up BEFORE getting online, but that's just me (they know!).

I'd like that too, but unfortunately ip_masq doesn't seem to work that way.
(edit) My Shorewall is always up, but it needs to be restarted after my pppoe connection has been restarted in order for my netowrk to work properly.(edit)
("nother edit) I suppose this allows iptables to find out about the current network status.(edit2)