We had a firewall crash yesterday night (hardware firewall and apparently
the motherboard of it crashed :-( - but if all goes well we should get a new
motherboard for it in the next few days - still it's good to have a
"hot-spare" replacement even if it's just a PC :-))
We were able to quickly replace it by a PC with 3 nics, but apparently we
made a little mistake within the setup of the firewall software. We're able
to make changes to the config (network config) via the commandline, however
when rebooting the pc (with fw software) it still seems to load the old
config.
We can then again make the same change via the commandline.
I suppose it's possible to make the change in some kind of config file? If
so could anybody enlight me on what file(s) and how to change them?
Commands we had to do to make the needed changes
ifconfig eth2 down
ifconfig eth2 new.ip.address.something netmask 255.255.255.252
ifconfig eth2 up
route add default gw other.ip.adddress.something
(this temp firewall is running SmoothWall Express 2.0- I have console access
to the system so I can make all needed changes).
If you can help, then please reply off-list (dirk at woodstone dot nu)
Dirk Bulinckx.
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