I heard you the first time, John. I wrote that second message before I ever
got your first one. This is the Newbie section, by the way. Don't worry, I
won't waste your precious bandwidth because I won't be back. It seems to me
you're wasting more bandwidth by responding to my message without even
having anything worth saying.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ronald Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] as of last posting, i got ip-masquerading to work...
but...
> On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > I didn't realize the delay on these posts were over an hour. Thanks in
> > advance to anyone who answers it in the next hour. But I did get
> > IP-Masquerading to work. But I have more newbie questions.
> >
> > First, is there a way to send an ifconfig command to eth0 before Linux
tries
> > to initialize it upon bootup? It keeps hanging for a few minutes and
failing
> > and then I have to poke it with an ifconfig command that changes some
specs.
> > It would be nice if I could automate this.
> >
> > Also, according to the IP-Masquerading FAQ, there's a file called
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall that I had to make for it to work. But after I
made
> > it, and upon rebooting, it didn't take effect. I had to type all the
code at
> > the command prompt line-by-line before my Masquerading worked. So my
> > question is, what is this directory? Are all these rc files supposed to
> > automatically run on every bootup? Why didn't mine run? Do I have to
assign
> > each one somewhere?
> >
> > Much thanks in advance!
> >
>
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> Please ditch the HTML when posting to this or any other
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> also a waste of bandwidth.
> Thanks...
> John
>
