My profile is a month old, I don't have RedHat anymore, now I have Mandrake 9.2

/sbin/iptables -v told me I had 1.2.8
/usr/local/sbin/iptables -v tells me no such file
rpm -qa :grep iptables tells me I have iptables-1.2.8-2mdk

shorewall apears to have come with mandrake, and got activated perhaps when I was in webmin

The initd folder you were talking about I found shorewall, iptables and firestarter.

Using your commands rpm -e I was able to remove shorewall, firestarter and then removed iptables. I much apreciate this I didn't know it was that simple to remove packages.

Anyway, then I went into control center and went through the Internet Shareing wizard, it prompted to install packages , and later I discover it put iptables and shorewall back in so it seems iptables-1.2.8-2mdk and shorewall are tied together in Mandrake

After this process, Internet Shareing works as it did before the incident, but I am unable to ping any local address

ping 192.168.0.1
Destination unreachable.

I did a Iptables -L and shorewall is still in there, as well, icmp is blocked, but I dont know how to unblock it. But iptables -F does not help I tryed.

I even tryed downloading firewatarter again, but it keeps telling me there is an unknown error and firestarter never starts. I wrote a report to Firestarter about it.

But I need to somehow alow icmp and alow my netbios.

I much apreciate everyones asistance. I think instead of re compileing the kernel which i have no experince, that using the manual iptables commands as sugested by Uppercell would be my easyest option.

I did a iptables --help but I realy dont know what commands to type/

Any further assistance would be apreciated, also the link to the antionline iptables tutorial failed to load, it gave a timeout.