[Shorewall-users] Ping problems

[David B. <dav...@sc...>]

Okay

    Shorewall is wonderful.  I love how much easier it makes things.  I 
    am a little confused about ping handling, though.  I've read the ping 
    handling how-to, and i've put the following rule in my shorewall 
    rules file:

ACCEPT	all	all icmp 8

    I've also tried it using an entry in icmpdef or icmp.def.

    I can ping my private lan from the shorewall box, but not the 
    shorewall box from the private lan.  I cannot ping out to the 
    internet from the shorewall box or from the private lan.  When I try 
    I get the following output from the shorewall box:

PING www.hotmail.com (207.68.171.233) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.hotmail.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7010ms

    Attached to this message are my policy, rules, and interfaces files, 
    along with the output of shorewall status, and the outputs of ip addr 
    show and ip route show.  Shorewall show log gave no entries.

    Any help in this matter is much appreciated

I'm running Shorewall 1.4.6a under Slackware 9.1

Thanks


David