[Leaplist] Calling all IPCop experts ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Phil Barnett wrote:

>On Friday 04 May 2007 11:05, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>.... I just installed IPCop 1.4.15 on an old AMD 500 MHz K6. I followed
>>the install procedure pretty carefully, no wild customizations, simple
>>GREEN + RED setup, 2 different NICs, both apparently correctly setup,
>>etc. I logged into the box as root & poked around a bit. The console is
>>pretty stark, no man or chkconfig installed, etc., so I tried to login
>>via browser as they (seem to) recommend. I got 'unable to connect' in
>>Firefox from another box (this one, as it happens) on the (supposedly
>>GREEN) lan. I verified correct network cable hookups by swapping the
>>supposedly GREEN LAN cable to the other NIC card & pinging, got a bunch
>>of syslog messages about packets dropped on the RED interface, so I
>>switched the cable back and appear to be stuck :-). I can't ping the box
>>from any other boxen on the GREEN lan & can't get logged in via browser
>>to verify setups, etc. The iptables setup on that box is quite
>>elaborate, & difficult to post since I can't get into it :-). Any clues
>>for me ? TIA ....
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>On the IPCop box, log in as root and run the following commands:
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>ifconfig
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>route -n
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>That should be enough to get us started.
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Thanks for all the responses. Cutting to the chase: it was a bad (green) 
NIC, showed up OK in ifconfig, but syslog had messages about eth0 
couldn't negotiate an address. Replaced w/ another identical NIC on a 
lark, rebooted, all is well. Thanks again.

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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