[sclug] Irritating networking problem

[David Given]

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Will Dickson wrote:
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> - Try firing up your preferred package management tool and searching for
> "iptables". You may have one of the software firewall packages installed
> (as opposed to iptables itself - leave that well alone), in which case
> I'd suggest encouraging it to leave.

Mystery revealed --- stock Ubuntu comes with ipmasq. Cheers.

In fact, this may make my life easier as ipmasq should set up my extra
interface (eth1394, FWIW --- Firewire networking is great) without having to
use my own hacky script, but dammit, modern machines are just *too complicated*.

(You may be amused to know that I've recently had to start using an old P166
48MB laptop as an X server, and so have been rediscovering the joys of olvwm
and xview. It works surprisingly well --- and Firefox works unsuprisingly
badly...)

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