Firewall is loosing it's marbles

[McCarty Ronald]

Travis,

What was the particular issue?  Running DHCP / iptables isn't that  
uncommon of a setup, so it would be interesting to hear the particulars.

Best regards,

--ron

On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Waldher, Travis R wrote:

>> From: Waldher, Travis R
>> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 8:48 AM
>> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>> Subject: Firewall is loosing it's marbles
>>
>> I've got a pretty strict firewall setup on a machine that acts as a  
>> gateway between a production environment and a test > > >
>> environment.
>>
>> Users will log in to the box to access the test environment, the  
>> box is running RHEL5.  Once in, it's like the roach motel, no one >  
>> gets back out to the real world from the test world.
>>
>> My firewall is working fine, but it seems to loose it's marbles and  
>> deny ssh but still allow pings from the outside after a day or >  
>> two.  Wiping out the tables and re-applying them corrects the issue  
>> but obviously this is a poor solution.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen iptables partially stop working like this?
>
> Answer: Firewall + DHCP = no worky so well.
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