iptables help needed

[Simon Slater]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:17 +0200, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 02.06.2008 10:26, Simon Slater a écrit :
> | 	G'day all,
> | 		I've been plugging away at this for some time and have no idea which
> | direction to turn.  The iptables on a gateway box (FC6) is blocking
> | access to the internet from a laptop (F8).  On each attempt to access
> | the internet, the gateway responds with a reset.
> |
> | 	I have turned on everything in iptables using lokkit and
> | system-config-iptables, with some hand editing to boot (guided by
> | various howto's), probably allowing more than I need, but cannot get the
> | laptop out through the firewall.
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> What is the result of:
> 
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
1

	This morning I flushed the iptables rules to see what would happen and
the gateway still sends the reset.  Why else would port 80 be blocked?



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Regards,
Simon