Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-19 Thread peter mcgregor
On 17/06/11 10:56 PM, David Watkins wrote: Are my shorewall restarts causing the problem? I wanted a static ip address but I wasn't able to get one for this user. Can you use their MAC address? It is a good suggestion but I thought about this for a while, did some investigation and realised

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-19 Thread peter mcgregor
On 17/06/11 10:56 PM, David Watkins wrote: Are my shorewall restarts causing the problem? I wanted a static ip address but I wasn't able to get one for this user. Can you use their MAC address? It is a good suggestion but I thought about this for a while, did some investigation and

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-19 Thread peter mcgregor
On 18/06/11 1:06 AM, Ian Barton wrote: On 17/06/11 11:56, David Watkins wrote: Are my shorewall restarts causing the problem? I wanted a static ip address but I wasn't able to get one for this user. Can you use their MAC address? If you are running dhcp on your server, you can make the dhcp

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-19 Thread peter mcgregor
What can I do about it? Have you configured a STARTUP_LOG in shorewall.conf? If not, you should so you can see all of the Shorewall messages being generated at the time of the hang. I would also recommend upgrading to the latest version of Shorewall, as yours is almost two years old.

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-17 Thread David Watkins
Are my shorewall restarts causing the problem? I wanted a  static ip address but I wasn't able to get one for this user. Can you use their MAC address? -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-17 Thread Ian Barton
On 17/06/11 11:56, David Watkins wrote: Are my shorewall restarts causing the problem? I wanted a static ip address but I wasn't able to get one for this user. Can you use their MAC address? If you are running dhcp on your server, you can make the dhcp server assign a static ip address to

Re: [Shorewall-users] iptables defunct

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Eastep
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 22:22 +1200, peter mcgregor wrote: This may point towards iptables stopping top(and everything else) in some way. I do not know why my server is freezing, but I am assuming it is because iptables has run amok and has locked up the kernel. Is this a good