Hi again, this may not be Linuxconf related but here goes... I just set-up an RH 5.1 box (486/40 16 megs) as a firewall / proxy server on a cable modem (The Wave). The cable modem requires DHCP which Linuxconf gladly set-up along with the Ipfwadm rules. All works great including Squid (time to look at a 2.x Squid module...). However, the nature of cable companies is they are not very reliable. So when the cable goes down, dhcpcd eventually gives up and doesn't get an address until a reboot. Using normal eth0 & eth1 (dhcp) rules, not ppp. So far, the box always gets the same address even after a long cable interruption which is fine and must be tied to the cable modem itself (goofy cable company). But can the dhcpcd behaviour be controlled via Linuxconf or manually? I believe it renews every 3 hours unless told differently by the dhcp server. Of course these cable systems are designed primarily for Win 95 but works great via Linux (besides the loss of a dynamic address). p.s. I configured tight security and it took less than a day for the curious to try and login (sorry, no telnet no login).... So far, SSH doesn't work from the public side inbound. d. --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
