Re: iptables with serial connexion

Le mardi 6 mars 2007 19:20, vous avez écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:55:48AM +0100, Tonus wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I am trying to have a usefull connection through serial for my h3600 with
> > my slackware laptop but having problems since i'm quite new to both.
> >
> > I can ping my ipaq from laptop but not my laptop from the ipaq.
> > As i suspected my iptables rule being responsible, i added this :
> > iptables -A INPUT -i ttyS0 -j ACCEPT
> > iptables -A OUTPUT -o ttyS0 -j ACCEPT
> > But it still doesn't work.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea ?
>
> just an idea:
> is ttyS0 really the name of the interface ?
> do you see "ttyS0" in the output of ifconfig ?
> I do not know the way your ipaq is conntected, but i would guess the
> name of the interface is "ppp0" or "usb0".
> you cold try ip adress instead of the name of the interface, e.g.
> iptables -A INPUT -i 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A OUTPUT -o 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT
>
>
> but if you are running iptables already, finding the error is not easy.
> maybe you post your full iptables script ?
>
> good luck
>
> dominik

Thanks a lot, the ping works well both side now.
Next step ;)

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