Shorewall for web server?

[Timothy Murphy]

Louis Lagendijk wrote:

> How are you connecting to the internet: through ppp0? Why are you using
> DNAT? If you have the fixed IP address on ppp0, all you need to do is
> setting the appropriate ALLOW rule:
> AllowWeb      net     fw
> as you don't need to forward traffic to another machine.

Thank you very much;
I followed your advice, removed the two DNAT lines 
I had added to my shorewall rules,
and added the line you suggested:

AllowWeb        net     fw

This worked like a charm,
and appears to have solved my problem completely.

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