Re: [cobalt-users] IP Firewall on qube2 - Has ANYONE gotten it to work?

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/14/00 5:04 PM, Jeff Davis at jdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Ok, this is making me crazy...
> 
> I have gotten my primary & secondary up and running.  IP masq & NAT
> all seem to be working fine.  Life gets weird when I throw IP
> filtering into the mix.
> 
> Being somewhat new to this I went to cobalt's web site and used the
> firewall wizard.  Input the info in my Qube 2, and voila - nothin'.
> Well, almost.
> 
> POP3 & SMTP seem to work, but web, ping, and DNS are toast.
> Disabling the IP Filter rectifies the problem.
> 
> Here's the filter configuration (IP addresses changed to protect the innocent)

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A friend of mine and I were screwing around with this this weekend.  I think
the key is that you have to have the DENY rules FIRST, and then the allow
messages.

-k