Re: iptables NAT entry times out but connects from firewall

From: Harald Welte (laforge@netfilter.org)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 14:07:13 EST


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:57:16PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> There is a firewall with two NICs and the below rule to allow an
> internal host to connect out to smtp servers on the internet. Some
> hosts have a connection timeout on a connect from $INTERNAL_IP_OF_SMTP
> yet connect from the firewall just fine.

this seems to be an iptables usage problem, please follow-up to the
netfilter mailinglist at netfilter@lists.netfilter.org.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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