I have Mandrake 8.0 installed. I set up a firewall with InteractiveBastille and have been using this setup for several weeks without problem. Last weekend, my cable Internet provider had problems with their DHCP server. Since they got their system back up and running I have been having a strange problem with my Mandrake system. It is a home machine so I power it down at night. When I start the machine the first time of the day however I can not get out on the Internet. I checked to make sure that the Ethernet interfaces are up and that the external interface has an IP address via DHCP from the cable service provider. The 'Activity' light on the cable modem lights up and it looks like something is happening but no services can be reached. Now, if I execute 'service bastille-firewall stop' followed by 'service bastille-firewall start', everything will start working. I have not made any changes to my firewall setup and this behavior did not start until after the cable company had their DHCP failure. What is really strange though is that if I power off the machine and then power it back on a few minutes later, everything works fine. I do not have to stop and start the firewall. I am thinking there is probably something funny going on with the DHCP lease from one day to the next but I am not sure how to pinpoint this. If this is the problem then is there a way to fix it on my end or what do I need to tell the cable company so that they can get things working back the way it used to. Thanks in advance. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
