[K12OSN] iptables blocking tftp on default installation
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sun Jun 11 04:19:03 UTC 2006
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Peter Scheie wrote:
> I did another installation of beta 7 for version 5.0. I accepted the defaults
> for everything, except for two things: the host name, and the firewall. The
> only thing I changed for the firewall is that I selected the option to open
> port 443 for https, by just selecting the checkbox; I didn't add any other
> options. After the server finished the installation, I tried to boot my iPaq
> client, which uses PXE. It hung at the tftp stage, until I turned iptables
> off at the server, and then the client continued to boot normally.
>
> What assumption does 5.0 make about the state and open port of the
> firewall/iptables?
>
> Petre
The default is for eth0 to be trusted (i.e. not firewalled at all), and
on eth1 everything is blocked except ssh.
Sounds like when a change is made (such as adding https), it completely
wipes out the K12LTSP 5.0 defaults. That didn't happen in earlier versions.
I'll test that out...
Thanks Petre!
-Eric
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