Hi, > After two or three backups of the bering and shorewall settings, the > firewall ceases to do anything. I'll explain. The machine will boot. > My local machines can ping it. But it won't respond to any of my > machines DHCP requests and I can't see the 'net' zone.
--=Victor McAllister wrote=-- Is dhcp listening on eth1 or do you have some other setup? ----------------------------- External: eth0 -- uses dchpc to get external IP from ISP Internal: eth1 -- Uses dchpd to give IP licences to loc zone machines > I have had times when I have attempted to backup the settings and I > get lots of disk errors, and on those occasions the disk is dead. This > usually happens when I try a complete backup. But most times it just > fails in the manner described after about the 3rd backup, usually I've > only changed the shorewall rules. All the settings appear to be saved > when it boots back up, but it just won't work. I have to re-create the > bering disk on my WinXP box and start over. :( > > Do I need a nice new FDD? Admittedly, I'm also using cheap floppies as > well. Is there a good brand I can buy? > --=Victor McAllister wrote=-- Usually backup problems come from not enough RAM. The lrp (compressed)file is built in /tmp in before writting to the floppy. It is unlikely that you need to backup root.lrp. If you do - look at the file size before and after before rebooting. If the file size has changed drastically - copy another root.lrp in before rebooting. You might want to check available ram ----------------------------- First time I hit full backup, to save all the settings I've made from a clean bering floppy, created using the Win exe. Then I just backup shorewall when I make changes. No drastic changes in file size, just slight increases. I have 16Mb RAM, I was under the impression that this was adequate for LEAF, albeit the minimum spec? If I don't have enough RAM, will turning OFF the "create package in /tmp" option help? --=S Mohan wrote=-- Why dont' you try/buy a IDE-CF drive instead? Will save you a lot of hassles with floppies. Can look up http://mydigitaldiscount.com and http://www.acscontrol.com ------------------- Unfortunately buying a couple of CF drives (one for the bering box, one for my winxp box to create the CFs) and some CF cards defeats the object of getting a free router and firewall for my home LAN. But I guess if I get REALLY stuck those prices are good. Just have to get a friendly American LEAF user to send me some in the post. :) Would I need two CF drives? Or can I just boot a clean bering floppy and back it up to the CF drive? Cheers guys, Jim. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
