-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 February 2002 02:10 pm, you wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:58 pm, you wrote:
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resort to the Microsoft way of fixing things -- cycle power and pray. I'd rather think my way through the problem. I will have her check her firewall.. she's running a lightly filtered IPtables script.
Thanks for the tip :)
'Saright! I've seen firewalls do some strange things before....sounds like it this time as well.
Fred
Fred, You were right -- it was her firewall modules (ip_conntrack, to be precise) that were causing the problems. I had to talk her through rmmod'ing each firewall related module, until there were none left. Then I had her "rcdhclient restart" and pings are fine now! ... and I didn't have to reboot :-D Feeling brave, I tried to bring her firewall back up again after I was able to ssh back into her machine. That's when I saw the "unresolved symbols" errors in ip_conntrack -- which were not there when I brought it up 6 months ago. So there's trouble in kernel land.. hopefully I can just leave her firewall offline (it's not really needed, since she's not running that many services) and let it ride :-) I am assuming (hopefully rightfully so) that a later kernel / iptables version fixes these problems.. she's still at 2.4.4-4GB, from SuSE. Welp, have a great night, and thanks again! - -Steven - -- - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Steven R. Hatfield Systems Specialist MassMutual Settlement Solutions AIM: StevenRHatfield JabberID: ashari@myjabber.net Public GPG Key available at: http://www.knightswood.net/~ashari/ashari_public.asc - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8bHlw3pOz+fmMqdsRAmJjAJ9LFuwrCHzVFBdnZwzqwH9EiL1PsQCfWnoJ 2X7t1s4a7AINg30JPnVhGHc= =4CGl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----