This one was a royal pain to solve. It was a hardware problem. Taking out the tulip card and plugging in an eepro100 in a different slot fixed the problem. Having my laptop with me this time was a big help. I set up the laptop with the same network configuration worked fine. I noticed that /sbin/ifconfig showed a bunch of transmit errors on eth0. (And dmesg showed a bunch of weird timeout messages on the card relating to transmit.) Does anyone know if the tulip drivers are smp clean? On Monday 20 August 2001 17:04, joy_ping wrote: > hi, > > i would say get off of this bastile-crap and use pure iptables-scripts. > dont know if bastille uses iptables, but you learn more, and it is really > no magic to set up your firewall by hand. it is easy to configure, you > can set special rules for special ports, and you know what you do, and > some more. > > basics for setting up a firewall: > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/ > > sources and patches for iptables you can found here: > > http://netfilter.samba.org/ > > docs and howtos you can obtain here: > > http://netfilter.gnumonks.org/unreliable-guides/ > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/iptables_basics.html > > the cause for dropped pings could not so easily defined i think. there > could be physical problems like cable, connector or bad configured > network, look for collisions at your network device(s). > > g. > > z. > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alan wrote: > > This is an odd problem. The on-site docs seem to be less than useful. > > (Too much time spent with remedial firewall instruction and too little > > telling where the damn config scripts live.) > > > > Note: This is at a friend's house that is about 45 miles away. Not easy > > to get to, so some details may be from memory. > > > > there are two machines. Both have ethernet cards. (Tulip driver.) One > > has a modem. The dial-out script works fine. > > > > Using the "connection sharing" setup to connect out. (Probably my first > > mistake.) > > > > I changed the Bastille firewall to view the second machine as "trusted". > > > > The second machine cannot route to the first UNTIL the gateway box > > initiates a connection to the second machine. > > > > If I ping from the second machine to the gateway, I get "no route to > > host" messages. > > > > If I ping from the gateway to the second machine, i get LONG pauses and > > absurdly slow ping times until things "wake up" and pings speed up. > > > > After this, routing works, but everything is slow with much dropped > > packets. > > > > Here are my questions: > > > > In the standard install of Mandrake 8.0 (power pack disc set), which > > firewall setup takes precidence and where is it configured? > > > > Why am i unable to route to the gateway box and how do I fix it? (Route > > tables look fine. This looks like a firewall issue.) > > > > Why are pings being occasionally dropped? (I have seen this once before > > with IPChains on another server. I did not have the time to investigate > > when it was noticed.) > > > > Ideas? Suggestions? Remedies?
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