Hi,
I use firestarter without any problems. It runs as a service which has a
gui frontend which may or may not be displayed. I have dhcp-client &
dhcp-common pkgs installed only. The service runs continuously unless
you stop it using the gui.
If you are swapping the 1 ethernet port between laptop and internet this
could be causing your problem
I have 2 boxes the main one on 10.0.0.1 and the lappie on 10.0.0.2 and I
connect them with a xover cable as required. The main box is connected
permanently to the internet using a usb connection, (saves much swapping
of cables) the lappie only connects to the main box as required.
firestarter setup files are in /etc/firestarter. I do not appear to have
a file /etc/network/interfaces
I suggest you start the firestarter gui again, and run the wizard.
Uncheck the box 'ip address is assigned via DHCP' check 'start firewall
now' then save and quit.
With the lappie connected ifconfig shows me 3 connections - eth0, eth1,
and lo so I need to run ifup and ifdown to select the connection i want
HTH
Barry
-------------------------------
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:25 +1200
Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a really weird problem with my laptop. What I've been doing that
has worked up until now is connect my laptop and desktop via a loopback
ethernet cable, and giving each a static IP address using the network manager
GUI (I'm using GNOME), and we're off. When I try to do that now, the laptop's
IP address changes to 169.254.93.80 within a few seconds of connecting (I can
see this only with ifconfig, but not the GUI). Looking at the system log, I
see a bunch of messages about DHCPDISCOVER and eventually a message from
NetworkManager saying "No DHCP reply received. Automatically obtaining IP via
Zeroconf." And goes on to say that it's using IP address 169.254.93.80
I don't have the zeroconf package installed, and I can use the laptop on my
school's LAN with no problems. The only recent change I have made to my
system is installing Firestarter, but I turned all that off to try and solve
this problem.
Thanks,
Aidan
Looks like there's a dhcp client running on this box, and it's failing to find
a dhcp server. Modify /etc/network/interfaces... ( change eth0 to the relevant
one, and the IP addresses... )
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to ( as a minimum )
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.0.254
Then run ( as root )
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 10.0.0.254
If you don't modify the config file as well as reconfiguring the interface,
then it'll work for a while, then the system will try to reset the interface,
and networking will fail again.
hth,
Steve
