Mandrake Multi Network Firewall help plz

[Guest matro197]

Hi,

 

Well today I installed Mandrake Multi Network Firewall. I went to my Win98 pc and try to login to the firewall through internet explorer but could'nt then I ping the firewall but destination unreacherable. I login the firewall and in the console I ping the win98 pc there was a connection with no errors. Also tried to ping the internet everything was fine, did I miss anything. I tried to locate docs for the Multi Network Firewall but to no avail. Your help here will be much appreciated. Now I know that IE won't work so I will be downloading Netscape. But still can't ping the firewall form my win98 pc. :(

[paul]

The firewall by default has icmp_request turned off on all devices.

Which means you won't be able to ping the firewall from anywhere

 

a couple of points you should note

if the network addresses are on the same subnet the firewall won't work

example: eth0 192.168.1.1 eth1 192.168.1.2 <-- won't work !!!!!

 

also MNF is NOT IE friendly (it just doesn't work with that stoopid browser)

try accessing the firewall with mozilla (or pheonix)

https://192.168.1.1:8443/

 

if you have a look at your routing tables on the firewall, you will see why it won't work when the devices are on the same subnet.

 

also I had to generate new ssl keys

as root on the firewall:

/usr/lib/ssl/mod_ssl/gen( something like genratekey.sh)

then cp server.key and server.crt to /etc/http/conf/ssl/ (overwrite existing keys)

then /etc/init.d/http-naat restart

then you should all be good!

 

p.s. the shameless plug on NZLUG worked :-)