firewall problem pls help

[maransekar]

I'm running a Suse 9.2 Professional File Server with squid proxy server. Squid serves web pages fine when the firewall is turned off. However when the firewall is on then packets are dropped from the router to the server. This is a sample from the messages file:

Feb 18 16:46:59 linux kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0d:61:e5:f9:e9:00:0d:88:6f:39:89:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.2 LEN=576 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=556

any help would be appreciated.

cheers

[id10t]

What port are you running squid on? My default install under Debian has it listening on 3128... Your firewall log statement is saying something tried connecting to port 68, which is what bootp runs off of (bootp is the predecessort to dhcp...)

[maransekar]

hi thanks for your quick reply, actually the problem was in the router. sorted now. thank you very much