Hello, I tried to reproduce this and I can’t. Could you please send the output of “iptables -L -nv” to help me debug this? -Michael > On 8 Mar 2022, at 20:13, Charles Brown wrote: > > Just tried again with next/2022-03-08 09:59:43 +0000-32ce7ab4/x86_64 > It seems simple to reproduce. See attached log. > At initial boot after fresh install, cannot ping local private address gateway -- DROP_HOSTILE > After editing settings in /var/ipfiire/optionsfw/settings -- changing DROPHOSTILE to off -- and rebooting, things worked as expected. > I then changed DROPHOSTILE setting to on and rebooted -- resulting again with DROP_HOSTILE when pinging my local gateway. > > > On 3/8/2022 9:47 AM, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Hello Charles, >> >>> On 7 Mar 2022, at 12:26, Charles Brown wrote: >>> >>> Did a fresh install of core165 Development Build: next/cad86575 >>> >>> 1) Private Network is ‘Hostile’ – should it be? >> No, it shouldn’t. >> >>> Initially, I had no access to red zone. All traffic was getting DROP_HOSTILE. >>> My test setup has gateway through a 192.168 private network. Could not ping my 192.168 gateway without disabling the “drop hostile” feature. Somehow I thought that private network range would not be considered ‘hostile’. >> Do you have some log files so I can look at what matched? >> >> What build are you running? >> >> -Michael >> >>> 2) Web page ids.cgi stops loading after header >>> The page header down through "Intrusion Prevention System " is displayed and then stops -- nothing else on the page >>> Log in httpd error shows as: >>> "Unable to read file /var/ipfire/suricata/ignored at /var/ipfire/general-functions.pl line 883. " >>> I went to the directory and created the 'ignored' file and chowned it to nobody:nobody. >>> That allowed the page to complete loading >>> >>> -cab >>> >