I just got done upgrading my home network server from SuSE 5.3 to SuSE
6.0 and all I can say is what a pain. The upgrade was very smooth and
everything was working fine after the upgrade expect IP Masquerading. As
it turned out, I had to go and hand edit "/etc/rc.config" and set
IP_FORWARD=yes inorder to get things working again. I guess I'm confused
as to what other way is there to configure this stuff? I don't recall
seeing any option for IP_FORWARDING in YaST. I had IP Masquerading
working fine under SuSE 5.2 and it still worked after I upgraded to 5.3.
It seems like something really changed in SuSE 6.0 with regard to this.
What alerted me to this problem that then led to a solution was that
during bootup, I would see a message stating that IP Forwarding was
being turned off. After greping around a bit I found that this message
was being displayed from the "/sbin/init.d/boot" script.
Tony
Juergen Braukmann wrote:
>
> Stan Koper wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just picked up a copy of SuSE 6.0 (I'm using 5.3 at the moment), and
> > reading through the manual, I didn't see a section (or any reference in the
> > index) on Firewall and Masquerade. Given that a lot of people are using
> > Linux on a 486 box for internet access for a LAN, how come no instructions?
> >
> Neither in the german version. ;-( But, look into the docs on CD. The
> "old" 5.3 Article might be theresomewhere. (I�ll go looking for it
> today, since I am working on the same thing) There are changes with the
> 2.2.x Kernels, ipfwadm has changed to something I don�t remember. ;-)
>
> > Should I make copies of files like rc.config, hosts, etc., before
> > attempting to upgrade? I figure I'd better write down the IRQ and
> > interrupts for my two ethernet cards for sure.
> >
>
> definately. save your home directorys, /etc, and if you made changes to
> your boot files also /sbin/init.d. Anything in /usr/local/bin?
> I had a big crash recently and learned a lesson. ;-))
> Updating won�t kill your stuff, but create *.rpmsave *.rpmorig files.
> It�s helpful if you know what�s been changed before.
>
> Juergen
>
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