Hello Guys, I am dying to say (read type) some very, very, very nasty things about SuSE 9.1 but let me hold them back and just put across the source of my frustration. Last Friday (I am typing this mail at the end of Wednesday) I made a clean install of SuSE 9.1 on a new machine with specs: HP Compaq, Intel Xeon Processor 2.4 GHZ, 1 GB RAM, 2 x 40GB HDD. Since among its other intended functions, it also going to be our proxy, I added a 2nd n/w card on top of its onboard gigabit ethernet card and then embarked on the installation. It detected my network cards O.K and using YAST, I I.P addressed them and after which I did the proverbial ping test. I had configured the onboard to face our internal network and the other card to face the internet. The onboard returned the ping from all the internal machines O.K, but the second card gave me a network unreachable error. Re-check the values, re-enter them all O.K but still network unreachable errors. As a test, at this point, I decided to configure the onboard instead to face the internet and the second card to face the internal network. The ping responded form all the machines on the internal network but got network unreachable errors from the onboard card. That confirmed both cards to be O.K. When I switched the onboard to face the internal n/w again, BOTH cards returned network unreachable errors!!!!!! I got two other WORKING cards placed them into the machine, spent my saturday, my sunday, monday, tuesday, googled my (oops no nasty words!!) off and the circus continued, ping from inside, network unreachable errors from outside. In between, I configured BIND which returns a succesfull dig @localhost but no remote servers found error when I try to dig anything else. I think its because of the other problem. I installed and configured squid which is also dying with a DNS name lookup tests failed error. I still think it is the other problem. I have configured and reconfigured SuSEfirewall2 a million times but still no luck. I have disabled ipv6, set static routes, checked all files in /etc/sysconfig/network against recommended ones and so many other things but still no luck. Can someone out there save my sanity?? Honest!! This thing is driving me mad!!!!
************************************************************************ Lule George William (Mr) Network and Systems Administrator Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi P.O. Box 5498 Kampala Uganda --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
