On Friday 24 January 2003 06:08 am, James Neave wrote: > 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.
You need to set the "dhcp" option on both interfaces per the Shorewall suggestion for both the client and server. > > 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? If they're going bad after the 3rd reboot, I would think it would be the floppy drive. I've really never had a problem using Memorex or Imation floppies....but it's not too often I change anything more than once or twice. > --=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? Yes, but there is no space check by using this option. > --=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? I don't find the floppies hard to use.... much easier than anything else IMHO. I wouldn't suggest using a CF or HD unless you have a reason for doing so. This being said I have many routers out there running on CF and CD's. A good test might be to open another shell and run the df command while backing up root.lrp, this way you can see if your running out the ramdisk. ~Good luck! -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- 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
