Hi Guys, I just subscribed to this list to get more information regarding the Debian Linux, which kind of lacks a lot of information resources. Most sites are about RedHat Linux and as much as Debian is giving me problems, I still like to stick to this distribution instead of moving to RedHat. I have several questions that I'd like to ask namely : 1. Does Debian have any administrative tools akin to IBM AIX smitty, smit, wsm (Web System Management) whereby it allows me to administer and manage the system without having to edit files and typing in complex commands every time ?
2. This is critical and I am about to start banging my head on the wall, except that I still holding on to the hope that you guys can help me out here. Well, currently there is a system within my environment which is running RedHat 6.x and it has two ethernet adapter (3Com) installed on the system. This system is running Masquarading (Sp ???), whereby there are two networks, one is running on 100.100.100.x and the other is running on 255.255.255.x. This system is also acting as the gateway. A colleague of mine also runs his system on Redhat 6.x and is able to view two networks on his system also having two ethernet adapters (Generic, dunno what brand they are). What I can't understand and which is giving me pain is that my system configured with Debian 2.1 cannot view the two networks. I have two ethernet adapters (3Com) installed and if I configure both the cards with one pointing to the 100.100.100.x network and the other with the 255.255.255.x network, the system will not be able to ping any host out there (I have already configured the ifconfig and route similar to the RH 6.x systems). But if I disable the 255.255.255.x network, I can ping and view the other systems. If I do it the other way round, the system cannot detect any host whatever (Disable 100.100.100.x and enable 255.255.255.x). I have checked the connections to the ethernet adapters and they are functioning. I have updated my kernel to the 2.2.16 enabling masquarading but am still unable to detect any host when both the ethernet adapters are enabled. What could be the problem here ? I've included the ifconfig and route info for the gateway system and also my colleague's system for your info. My system route and ifconfig information is as the ones below, but I still can't detect both networks. $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:C4:FB:97 inet addr:202.190.130.195 Bcast:202.190.130.199 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:1 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe400 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:91:B1:C5 inet addr:100.100.100.150 Bcast:100.100.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:17041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:712 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:2494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 $ $ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface tiger.first.com * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 100.100.100.150 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 202.190.130.192 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 202.190.130.193 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 $ --->>> Colleague's system [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeffrey]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:FB:17:4B inet addr:202.190.130.196 Bcast:202.190.130.199 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:30323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec80 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:C2:D3:DA inet addr:100.100.100.111 Bcast:100.100.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:69983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11276 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:6 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xef00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeffrey]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeffrey]$ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface penguin.first.c * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 100.100.100.111 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 202.190.130.192 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 202.190.130.193 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeffrey]$ Thanks in advance. Saranjit Singh,