Re: [m0n0wall] Problem of ping on wan interface altought firewalls rules allow all traffic from any interface

From:	Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net>
To:	veptune at wanadoo dot fr
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] Problem of ping on wan interface altought firewalls rules allow all traffic from any interface
Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:49:26 +0100

On 18.03.2004 21:34 +0100, Eternal Security wrote:

> can ping machines on Internet. But from 10.10.5.8 i can't ping the
> wan interface of monowall (and i can't ping lan interface and
> 192.168.0.2) !!! Note that 10.10.5.8 can ping any machines on
> internet and any machine member of the LAN of the company.
> 10.10.5.8 is an examples, but any machines of the LAN of my company
> can't ping the wan interface of monowall.
> 
> In logs of Monowall i can see that packets sent during the ping are
> refused ! But firewall rules allow all packets on LAN/WAN 
> interface !

Since you use an RFC 1918 subnet on your WAN interface, make sure
that the "Block private networks" option on the WAN interface setup
page is unchecked.

- Manuel