[pptp-server] ipchains killed my networking?!?!

Tom Eastep teastep at evergo.net
Tue Aug 8 21:28:25 CDT 2000


Thus spoke Elliott Stern:

> Maybe someone here can give me a hand with this.  After setting up and
> testing PoPToP on a new computer, I decided to make a ipchains firewall
> to protect the box.  Well, now my system has no networking
> capabilities.  I have reset my computer and run 'ipchains -L' to verify
> that all rules are clear and that the default policy for all chains is
> ACCEPT, but I still can't get my networking to work (including the
> loopback interface).  When I bring up the loopback interface, I get a
> message: "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable".  I have even tried
> shutting down and unplugging the power for 15-20 seconds to clear the
> cache, but that isn't helping.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 

Not if you don't post the output from "ipchains -L -n -v" and
"ifconfig"...

-Tom
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