I use ipchains and it is solid beyond belief. I don't think you need to reboot as much. "SuSEconfig" will reinitialize changes to rc.config and "init 1" and "init 2" will toggle the network down and up after changes. here's some links for you: http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/HOWTO.html http://www.bb-zone.com/FWHowTo/ At 05:21 PM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
I have looked throug a few months of list archives to see if this problem was discussed and though I find quite a few messages on masquerading and/or dhcp, I did not see any discussion of the problem that I have.
After installation of 6.3, I tried to get masquerading to work but had to go to the SuSE support database. There was an article stating that I needed to use the new firewals package. I installed this but that was not enough. Only because someone had posted to this group earlier did I find that the firewals package was bad and required upgrade. This got masquerading working but I found that the masquerading dies after several hours or a day. Rebooting does not recover it. At the end of the reboot, there is a firewall error message stating that the eth0 interface is defective. I discovered that if I edit rc.config to make START_FW="no", reboot, the network will function again and I can then make START_FW="yes" and reboot to get the firewall/masquerading to work again. This only works for a few more hours and then the same problem.
Any ideas of what is happening?
Damon Register
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