Steve, Rob, whomever you may be...
It sound from here you have some hardware issues (the network cards) You might
consider using one of the working boxes to test your hardware (sort out good from
no-so-good network cards). That will likely clear up some mystery. You could also
duplicat the data from one system to another system to get more firewall systems going
(its kinda pointless to install many times if your doing the same thing...).
Another consideration is: dont worry about how the computers are connected together,
since it doesnt matter much... you can connect everything to the hub if you want, it
should still work fine (maybe not optimal, but functional). You may need to connect
the router to the hub va crossover cable, but the rest should be standard cables.
Jamie
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>From: Steve Brouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: Eth0 is timing out
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>I installed debian on a pentium 100 to be used as a firewall.
>This is my third machine that I have attempted to turn into
>firewalls. The first 2 were successful and work great. I am
>having a problem with this third machine. I am using netgear
>fx310tx network cards with the tulip network card driver. This
>third machine has 3 PCI slots, 2 of the slots are occupied with
>the 2 network cards and the other slot has a video card. I first
>configured both cards (just as with the other machines). I can
>only ping the static ip address that is configured to eth0. I can
>not ping the gateway or any other address on the internet. The
>error I get "eth0 timing out ... resetting eth0". Once this
>message appears, ctrl-c gets me back to the prompt where the
>error message keeps showing itself. Here are the troubleshooting
>things I have done:
>
>1 - swapped network cards (I have 9) to rule out the card
>2 - removed 1 network card to see if I could get just one
>working
>3 - moved the 1 network card to the other open PCI slot (same
>error)
>4 - moved the video card to a different PCI slot and moved the
>network card to where the video card was
>5 - tried multiple straight and crossover ethernet cables
>
>My configuration is as follows:
>
>dsl-router --> firewall --> hub
>
>I am stuck! Does anyone know what the error may be?
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