[Shorewall-users] losing connection

Jim Owen
2003-03-04T18:43:40Z

Tom, I think I may have it fixed.  (Jim crosses fingers). My setup is
very simple, one linux box,AMDK6 233, 64 Mb ram two nics, cable modem,
one 8 port 10 mbps hub, one (for now, soon to be at least 2), HP
Pavilion 533 celeron, 128Mb ram one nic. see very simple setup.... John
said something in a message to you about  needing dhcp in my interfaces
file..... well I was trying to get it to work with a static address on
the Pavilion, obtw I have win98 and server 2000 on the client box, and I
got to thinking that since a stop and restart regained the connectivity
it might be a lease problem, such as when the lease expired and dhcpcd
requested a renew on the lease the client wasn''t being informed of
it...hence no connectivity. So I setup a dhcp server on the linux box
and went to dynamically assigned IPs
so far so good been up and running for 3 1/2 hours and hasn''t lost
conection yet :-).

                                                                 Thanks
for the time and effort


    Jim Owen