[Gllug] SuSE, firewall, BT broadband and IP

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 22:41, Anders Odgaard wrote:
<SNIP>
> My local home network (over eth0) has hosts with IP addresses 127.0.0.1,
> 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. I have no idea why I used these addresses
> when first setting up the home network.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion why the firewall shuts down the
> connection?
> Do I have a conflict with my local network?
> Has anyone successfully set connected to BT broadband using the Voyager
> modem?

The firewall isn't shutting down the connection, it simply doesn't know your 
external IP address because you're getting it from DHCP. Look in 
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 and you'll find:

# if you use dhclient to get an ip address you have to set this to "yes" !
FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no"

Set it to "yes":

FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="yes"

save the file and run /sbin/SuSEconfig

that should sort it out (but you might need to restart the firewall for it to 
take effect)

Dylan

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