the firewall is stopped so it's not that. thanks Dave On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:24:09 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mi, den 16.02.2005 schrieb Dave Pisarek um 19:19: > > > Is there a built in firewall in FC2 that stops certain traffic to the > > NIC? sshd is running and i can ssh to the localhost but from outside I > > cannot. The machine is assigned a static private IP and is behind > > Netopia router. the netopia is set to forward all traffic to the > > static Ip of the FC2 machine but the connection dies when I attempt to > > connect. does anyone know where I can check this in FC2? > > Each current Linux system has a build-in filter: netfilter/iptables. And > this one might block traffic. The iptables setup that Fedora Core uses > by default is /etc/sysconfig/iptables. You can find out current, active > rules by running > > service iptables status > > Alexander > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp > Serendipity 19:22:08 up 23:47, 18 users, 0.75, 0.85, 0.60 > > >