On Thursday 27 December 2001 12:14, you wrote: > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.xx > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 10.0.0.0 > broadcast 10.0.0.255 > > > iface eth1 inet static > address 65.165.xxx.xxx > netmask 255.255.xxx.xxx > network 65.165.xxx.xxx > broadcast 65.165.xxx.xxx > Good here. > Here's what shows from ifconfig -a: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > inet addr:10.0.0.x Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x210 ^^^^^^^^^^ See Below. > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > inet addr:65.xxx.xx.xx Bcast:65.xxx.xx.xx Mask:255.255.xxx.xxx > BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 ^^^^^^^^^^ Bad. If these cards are what you said, an ISA and a PCI, you have a genuine, bonafide IRQ conflict of the old scholl here. Change the IRQ on one of them and both should start working. > Ideas? They're 3c905b cards. One is an isa, the other pci 10Mb. > > > | 2) For ip-chains and ip-filter, what packages do I need to install? > > | Someone > > > > apt-get install ipchains ipmasqadm > > I didn't do this part yet, but to me trying to get packages in Debian is > like trying to fill out forms in triplicate for buying a house. I went > through modconf, and it was highly confusing. The nice part about it is > that it gives good descriptions of what they packages are, and it warns you > somewhat about the conflicts. > I still find dselect to be the best at handling the dependencies. Of course, debian was too easy for me, so I am using a minor distribution now. I'll pass on the results shortly. > This may sound odd to some of you, but I find Debian confusing to install. Debian's install still sucks. It really wins on package management and package quantity. > To me, it's probably the most confusing. I've been using Slackware for > about a year now I think, so I'm used to it the most. I would have > preferred to use Slackware, but for some reason there were a couple of > things broken that I couldn't get working: wouldn't detect my 2nd nic and I > couldn't get IPfilters to work with the 2.4.5 kernel. The second NIC problem was probably the IRQ conflict. As far as IPFilters go, I always got kernel related packages from the original sources when I was running Slackware. This was years ago, but I never could get the precompiled versions to work properly with my system... -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net