[Shorewall-users] losing connection

John S. Andersen
2003-03-05T13:12:35Z

On 4 Mar 2003 at 21:42, Jim Owen wrote:

> 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
> :-).

It just keeps getting wierder Jim ;-)

I misse the point of wether you have dhcp specified on
your interfaces file or not.....???

Serving your in-house machines with dhnamic IPs
should not affect loss of connectivity thur shorewall.

(I have a mix of dynamic and static IPs in my internal
lan.)

But not having dhcp on your external interface in
the shorewall interfaces file would matter.

Presumable since its working, you must have added
that parameter to that file - and I''m guessing to
both interfaces???

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