OK,  I get it now.  I was just wondering was all.

Still getting that error message (posted in my other email), but it doesnt
seem to be affecting anything directly.

Now if I could just get sshd to listen like it should, I will be all set.
Will post on that later, need to get all my info down...

Thanks again!
Chris Kulish

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] echowall question


> At 02:01 PM 6/22/01 -0500, Chris wrote:
> >    More of a curiosity really.  I was just wondering why echowall uses
MAC
> >addresses instead of IP for forwarding traffic?  Or is this a clueless
> >question about ipchains, of which I know very little?
> >
> >    I have some services that move from box-to-box (its my DR strategy
:P).
> >But with MAC addresses, I would be required to reboot/kill -HUP(?) the
> >router as well.  Before, I was just changing the IP to match that of the
> >original box while it was offline.
>
>
> Basically, Chris, when Scott and I (and others, but not on this list) were
> originally developing what became echowall.lrp, we were looking for a
> firewalling setup that would work with systems that assigned IP addresses
to
> the LAN dynamically. Hence the use of MAC addresses (not really permanent,
> but much more so than IP addresses), gatping, and other stuff that went by
> the wayside.
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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