Dave Howorth wrote:
Didn't tell me as much as I'd hoped :( But at least it confirms that the situation is not completely wacky.
That is sad, but there is a very wacky part of the problem I think.
The only oddity I noticed is that "From the not ok suse to the server" shows a hostname (mail.urbakken.dk) whilst "From the ok susebox to the server" does not. I don't know what that means though.
Is because I have not fullfilled the /etc/hosts file completely, but is normally not a problem.
It seems to me that what you're observing is that everything works as long as you initiate the network traffic from the suse box (ping, mail, browser etc), whilst everything fails if the traffic initiates from outside the suse box (ping, scp etc). Is that so?
You unfortunately are quite right. I also tried it with scp and ssh. Also that -scp- is what WinScp does, and are unable to do.
In which case: (1) It does sound like the firewall is a possible culprit. I know you said it is off, but you have double-checked that, yes?!
Lots of time checked :-). Please have a look at http://www.urbakken.dk/firewall2.jpg.
(2) Another possibility is the network service configuration. How do you cause daemons to be started? I run 9.3 so it might be different, but I use xinetd (from the Network Services page of YaST). Have you enabled that? If not, what method do you use? [that doesn't account for ping, AFAIK, but I don't know how that works]
I'm writing this on the ok susebox, so I cannot see if xinetd is enabled or not. I'll try to see it later on today. But I'm absolutely not sure how I cause daemons to be started. Its a darksite of my knowledge :-(
If neither of these ideas help to find the problem, can you post whatever network-related stuff there is from dmesg and /var/log/messages from both the working and non-working systems?
Sure I can, but I'll wait untill your reply to this has arrived.
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hans Krueger wrote:
just a thought have you tried knoppix on it ?
Hi Hans. No I haven't, and I'm not aware on how to test with Knoppix. Could you please explain it for me ?.
Knoppix is a Debian-based stand-alone system (runs from the CD). It's usually very good at figuring out the hardware configuration, so it's quite common to start that and then copy the configuration files it generates to fix problems.
For Dave and for Hans: I did a startup using the Knoppix cd. I could set up the network ok, and all worked nice both ways.
Cheers, Dave
Cheers Erik -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval.. Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org