VanLUG Email Archive
R Garth Wood (rgwood@peace.netnation.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:49:17 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Is the installfest an appropriate place for getting problems fixed?
> I have 2 problems with my firewall box
>
>
> 1)after some screw ups requiring reinstallation of rh5.1 ( : - ( don't ask....) I
> am unable to get my external nic to get assigned its ip info from bctel's
> dhcp server (I have adsl on my home system). The card can be brought up
> just fine by ifconfig, but using ./ifup fails.....
> basically it says using dhcp to get ip info, sits there a cople minutes iwth
> lights on the hub flashing away, then says failed. Now I had this problem
> b4, but can't remember how I solved this last time.
>
> 2)when ipmasq is setup, my ms windows boxes can surf the net, do email
> and all that stuff fine, OTOH when I try to do a pasv ftp transfer (ie via a
> web browser under windows) it times out, even though the proper ip
> address is resolved. Command line ftp from within linux works fine, it is just
> from within a web browser.........
It _could_ be that you haven't loaded the "helper" modules.
# modprobe ip_masq_ftp
Hence look in /lib/modules/`uname-r`/*/*
>
> The setup is a firewall box running ipfwadm/ipmasq on rh5.1, connected to
> another rh5.1 box with ipforwarding/masq enabled and thence to the
> internal network of windows (95/98/NT) boxes
> Would there be a better forum to get these problems fixed?
>
> Harondel J. Sibble
> Sibble Computer Consulting
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