Damon Register wrote:
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.
http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/HOWTO.html http://www.bb-zone.com/FWHowTo/
I am aware of these already and that is not what I need.
Could your ISP be changing your IP address every 10 hours? This would probably cause your firewall to fall over...
Thanks Chris for your answer. It seems to be more on topic. It is possible that they are doing that but I am not really sure. I checked the address yesterday and today after recovering from another failure but the address is the same. Can the ISP force a renewal but the new address might be the same? If so, would this cause the firewall to die as you mention? My Bellsouth ADSL connection is VERY unreliable and dies quite often. Perhaps this forces the address renewal?
When you get the IP address, the ISP usually gives a time until you must renew the address. In my case this is around 1800s, although it does give me the same IP all the time. This shouldn't cause the firewall any problems as the IP doesn't change.
From what you've said, it doesn't look like this is the problem, sorry :(
Does this firewall failure correspond at all to your ADSL connection failing? Hope you're getting somewhere, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\ /__/ / _ / // /\ / / ICQ# 22219005 __v __/_/_//_/_,_/ /_/_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/