Colin Close wrote:
Hi All,
I have been try to get MNF2 beta working for two weeks now and I think I must tbe doing something stupid.
The first proble I am having is that I cannot get a reliable loacal interface.
I have install on a 400mHz P2 with 64M memory. I am using an 8139 based network card for eth0 at address 10.0.0.151, 255.255.255.0. I cannot get any meaningful communication through this interface. After a clean install I cannot do a local ping i.e as root on the firewall machine ping localhost or ping 10.0.0.151 gets no reply. Pings to outside machines on the same network also result in no reply. If I run Shorewall stop i can ping outside machines on the same network from the FW.
Any attempt to ping FW machine from the local network results in no response. I cannot connect to the admin interface either with the firewall up or down. Over the two weeks I have re-installed a number of times and once ot twice I have had the admin interface working but I have never been able to ping localhost or 10.0.0.151 locally at the firewall.
I tried a different network cards a 3COM900B and ne2k based item the 3Com loads the driver but init doesn't bring it up properly since it doesn't seem to load an mii interface for it and I get an error "no network beat detected). The ne2k based item would not function at all even though the driver loaded ok.
Finally a simple question. Is X supposed to install or is this now disabled; when I try and install it I get a message that "X cannot be installed"
I see the package on the iso and it installs all the libraries but no server.
Regards,
Colin Close
Hi All,
Answering my own mail here. A re-install with a newly burnt disk and some additional memory seems to have improved matters. A home built secure kernel with the small patch for the eciadsl userland modem driver allows me to connect to an external internet address from the firewall machine via the ppp0 interface as long as the firewall is stopped. I cannot however ping an external host when the firewall is brought up even though this appears to be allowed by the rules.
I can now ping from the firewall machine to local lan addresses but I cannot ping the firewall machine from the local lan even though this appears to be allowed by the rules. I can however connect to the admin interface and change parameters from the local lan with out any problem so the network connection must be ok. If I set a local lan machine to use the firewall machine as its default gateway I cannot ping an external host.
Am I missing something obvious here; can anyone give me any pointers as to where to look for the problem?
Colin Close
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