DHCP and the firewall

Dwaine Garden DwaineGarden at rogers.com
Tue May 4 12:53:20 UTC 2004


Craig Emery wrote:

> Are there any issues with using DHCP and the firewall?
> Do I have to allow traffic of a certain kind in?
> Do I have to make this change using system-config-security?
>
> I've got the firewall enabled, but when I try and raise the 
> appropriate interface, I get a timeout. I'm just wondering if the DHCP 
> reply is being filtered.
>
> On a side: Is there a log that'll let me know that the packets were 
> being dropped?
> Where are the docs on how the firewall is configured?
>
> TIA
>
> Craig.
>
>
I have the problem where I can not disable the firewall.   Port 80 
traffic will not pass through.   No apache....

Try "setup" at the shell prompt.   This is the shell version.  Select 
firewall.








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