Bug 424513

Summary:	iptables comment for working w/ UML
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Grant Goodyear <g2boojum>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Grant Goodyear 2012-07-02 15:44:13 UTC

I received the following e-mail from a user:

Emmanuel windowsucks2000@aim.com
Jun 30 (1 day ago)
		
I followed the Gentoo UML guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml) and was successful at getting a running UML instance. However, I struggled with the networking and have a tip that may save others some time:
if using iptables, make sure the FORWARD chain on the packet filtering is letting the packets through. My chain was empty but the policy was set to DROP. As soon as I changed the policy to ACCEPT I was able to ping www.gentoo.org.

Thanks again for the documentation!

Reproducible: Always




Heh.  I didn't realize anybody still used UML.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-23 14:10:42 UTC

I have moved the UML guide to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux/System_testing_with_UML