[TriLUG] iptables - sometimes stops working

[Brian Daniels]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:58:41AM -0700, Turnpike Man wrote:
> line.  The anomaly I'm having is this:  I have a training lab setup in the
> corporate office.  That lab is separated from the production network by a linux
> machine running iptables.  That way folks can create their own domains, cross

Is the firewall getting it's 'outside' address from the corp network via 
dhcp?  This sounds like what would happen if your DHCP lease expired, you 
were assigned a new ip, and your rules were not re-set to expect the new ip 
on the external interface.

--Brian


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