Jerry Kreps wrote:
Someone on the list suggested using the SuSEFireWall to give the Beast the ability to send and recieve from the internet via the Sony. It didn't work for me, so I turned it off.
A firewall per definitionem doesn't _give_ you the ability to communicate but _limits_ it.
It's disconcerting that, for my hardware, it doesn't work.
I don't believe you.
What an ARROGANT statement! I can guarantee that a statement like that will turn an ardent supporter into a Mandrake user quicker than you can say 'I don't care". Do you think I am making this stuff up, or just lying? Or both?
No, I just don't think that your conclusion is correct. Something's wrong all right, but I don't believe it's what you say. I don't see any cause for your above accusation.
You can't imagine how angry your comment has made me. I am seeking
I indeed can't
help, not asking to be called a liar. If you think I don't understand
That is a very far reaching interpretation of a very innocent statement. I'll ignore how angry this makes ME for now and see if there's any substance in the rest of the mail. If I want to call someone a liar I _DO_ so, no need for any interpretations and reading between the lines like you did. The contents of MY statements is _IN_ the lines, not between them.
You installed 2.2.18 but 2.4 sources. Install 2.2.18 sources (package lx_sus22) instead.
WRONG! I selected the "INSTALL EVERYTHING OPTION", and when I was asked which kernel to install, it offered two buttons and I could click either or both. I clicked the 2.2.18 button ONLY!
Yes, but the sources are 2.4 as for the reason I already mentioned. When I said "you" I didn't meant to imply you were actively involved, but that this is what your system did. The sources don't have anything to do with what kernel's running, so just because you said yes to kernel 2.2.18 only doesn't give any hint about the source package actually installed.
I know of no way, using YaST2, of telling it to cross install the way it did. And if I only wanted the 2.2.18 why would I ever install the 2.4.0 sources. That would be a non-sequiter, even to me.
See reason given in email #1, which you overlooked while being angry for no reason.
What on earth do you need FORWARDING for on a notebook???? Do you use it as router for other machines??? A notebook?
There you go, assuming again. Who says a Sony VAIO has to be a notebook? My Sony VAIO is a 1966 P166 **DESKTOP**.
I didn't know they've that. I only know the notebooks next door.
And to bring you up todate: I have a Cisco 675 router configured as a DHCP server connected to eth0 on the Sony. The Sony's eth0 is 192.168.200.2. I have added a second ethernet NIC to it and connected it, as eth1, 192.168.201.2, to a NetGear EN104 hub. The second PC, I call the "Beast", has an ethenet NIC connected to the EN104 hub too. The Beast's eth0 is 192.168.201.3. I've been trying to get the Beast to connect to the Internet through the Sony.
/etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config FW_DEV_WORLD="eth0" FW_DEV_INT="eth1" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" Should do it. You won't be able to use your cisco-dhcp server for anything, it seems... unless you make sure the requests (broadcasts) get through from the internal network.
In fact, EVERYTHING I've done was/is by clicking buttons in YaST2 or running YaST. I wrote the original email to let SuSE know what happened: namely, when I selected the "Install Everything" option, and clicked the 2.2.18 kernel button, the result was that the 2.2.18 kernel was installed, the 2.4.0 source was installed, and the symbolic link, /lib/modules/2.2.18/block, points to the symbolic link /usr/src/linux and that link points to the 2.4.0 source tree. This situtation was made by the simle selection of installing everyting and selecting the 2.2.18 kernel. Oh, I did click on the 2.4 kernel button, but changed my mind and unclicked it, if that clue means anything. But, if you think I'm lying then never mind. I'll get out of your hair and go check out some other distros.
Whatever.