A member of our Big Island LUG has this question. Thought I'd forward it to LUAU for consideration. Any ideas? Please contact him directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks! --Eric ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:49:18 -1000 From: Terry Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: debian + laptop + NATS ? Hi from Kona! I've been trying to convert my NATS P133 tower unit (debian linux, kernel 2.2.10) to a laptop NATS. It seemed to go smoothly at first, but then I ran into a problem. The hardware is a thinkpad 760E, P133, 80 MB. I'ts got a pair of pcmcia ethernet cards, an NE2000 compatible and a 3c589 compatible. I installed linux kernel 2.4.18 on the laptop from source and compiled it with all the iptables options (the machine it replaced used ipchains). I installed a ruleset & I thought all was well - a machine inside the firewall could ping external machines. However it fails is trying to do anything other than ping. A browser running on a machine inside the firewall times out when contacting other sites or cannot contact them at all, even when I'm getting to them via IP address so it doesn't seem to be a DNS problem. the MTU on both eth0 & eth1 is set to 1500 which the networking howto says is the right setting. Telneting from an "inside" machine to the NATS laptop stalls after the "connected to 192.168.1.1" message. In desperation I swapped ethernet cards on the NATS - no fix. Finally I recompiled the kernel with ipchains and ran the setup script from the working NATS box. Same problem. This is starting to drive me crazy. I suspect that there is an issue with having the ethernet connections on the pcmcia bus, but I don't know how to verify this. Does anyone on the bilug list have any helpfull suggestions? I've tried google, but I haven't been able to find anything about running a NATS on a laptop. Any help would be appreciated. -terry s
