Hi Ray, Thanks so much for your reply.
After reading your suggestions, I think I should try a recent stable version before anything else. Which one would you suggest? It needs to fit on a floppy, must do both routing and firewalling and must support a routed DMZ. There is a permanent external ethernet connection and only a single internal interface to the DMZ, nothing else. The DMZ is a single Linux computer that runs multiple services with IP addresses in a /27 network. All these addresses are public, such as virtual web servers. Thanks again, Bernard On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:40:17 -0700, you wrote: >Well ... we don't get many questions here about LRP "classic", and I'm not >at all sure how many people on this list still use it (rather than one of >the newer LEAF variants), and Linux 2.2.16 is a distant memory for me. > >Someone here might be able to help you if you reported on the problem a bit >more systematically. > >For starters, please read the SR FAQ (referenced at the end of this >message) and provide the information it asks for, so we better understand >the basics of your setup. > >Next, read the "ping FAQs" (in the Docs somewhere, look around) to see how >better to report (and intrepret for yourself) ping failures -- the short >version is that you need to rell us *how* ping fails, not just *that* it >fails (what actual command do you type, what if any response do you get, >and what OS is on the machine you are pinging from). Also, which side are >you trying to ping from? If outside, might there be upstream problems, at >the ISP say? > >You should check if the router itself is running before you reboot it. Can >you log into it, via the console or ssh or telnet or whatever you have >running on it? Can you ping its *internal* IP address successfully? > >The filesystem that holds the logs can fill up, and that could cause the >sort of failure you seem to be seeing. How much RAM is in the system? >Assuming you can log on to the router, is the filesystem with the logs >actually full (I think LRP 2.9.8 supplied a version of busybox with the >"df" command) at the time of failure? > >At 12:19 PM 10/15/2003 +1300, Bernard wrote: >>Hi, >> >>This floppy router has been working well for 2 years but now it stops >>working every day until I re-boot it. >> >>It is a 2.9.8 1.6MByte floppy distribution with a 2.2.16 kernel. >> >>The configuration is a routed DMZ of a /27 network. >> >>After a few hours of operation, I can't ping the external interface. >>When I re-boot, then it works. Sometime it comes back online during >>the night. >> >>I thought it might be overloaded with useless traffic and I commented >>all entries in syslog.conf because I thought that might reduce the >>load on the 120MHz Pentium computer. >>The logs were filled anyway before they were rotated because of too >>many useless packets. >> >>Can anybody provide any clues to what could cause this or what to do >>to find the reason for it? My Linux router knowledge is not very deep. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. >SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. >See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: >Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
