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. (IŽll 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 donŽt 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 wonŽt kill your stuff, but create *.rpmsave *.rpmorig files. ItŽs helpful if you know whatŽs been changed before.
Juergen
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