Hello all,
Thanks for all your advice I will probably use one of the distro/products suggested.
I did figure out why it didn't work. I already had the RH firewall enabled so that took precedences. When I disabled it I was then able to use that command and it worked just fine.
Thanks again.
--- Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, scty Library wrote:
No, that did not work either.
Allow me to demonstrate this one:
[root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.047/0.048/0.049/0.001 ms, pipe 2
[root@emyn ~]# iptables -A INPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP
[root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1002ms
[root@emyn ~]# iptables -L INPUT -xnv Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 29425 packets, 14876789 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 2 168 DROP icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 127.0.0.1
[root@emyn ~]# iptables -D INPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP
[root@emyn ~]# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1017ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.047/0.048/0.050/0.007 ms, pipe 2
It should be the same for you.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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