[TriLUG] just starting out, help

[Tom Bryan]

On Monday 29 October 2001 06:29 pm, you wrote:
> If you are using KDE, use the "internet dialer" in the Internet menu. It
> will set it up for you. My modem is on COM2, so I chose /dev/ttyS1 (COM1 is
> /dev/ttyS0, COM2 is /dev/ttyS2, etc).

On RedHat, the one problem I had with KDE's dialup configuration was that it 
didn't automatically punch holes in the firewall for the nameservers 
specified by my ISP's ppp daemon on the other side of the phone line.

I now know enough about ipchains to do it by hand, but if you've got a strict 
firewall ruleset, adding entries to let the nameservers through is absolutely 
necessary.

---Tom