Re: [Sheflug] Firewalls, routers, gateways

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> Good news, but problems (isn't there always?),
> 
>  Well, noodles is at least running now, sans one drive....it's got a
> monsterous 420Mb drive in there (the 300 is actually in a 4mb 486 I
> still haven't bothered reviving - and probably never will).
>  ssh is setup, all services other than ssh and auth have been shut off,
> and it's running portsentry and monitoring power as a slave via apcupsd
> (which I need to test, but the UPS makes a hell of a racket when the
> juice goes, so I'll leave that until the morning ;-)
>  It's got kernel 2.2.16 (patched) and ip_masq looks to be setup,
> however:
> 
>  "ifup ppp0" fails with an error 6. Whatever the hell error 6 is. Ideas?

 Well, I solved this one myself - turn out apcupsd (the UPS daemon) had
locked /dev/ttyS0 - the port I had the modem on.

 apcupsd doesn't actually need that port, since it's getting all of it's
info via ethernet from flux, which has serial line (via it's ttyS0) to
the UPS itself.
 Just changed the config to use ttyS1 on noodles.

 IP masq didn't work to start with - flux still thought it was the
gateway, even although I'd used linuxconf to change it.

 Oh, well..out with route (again). Quick this time - I obviously learnt
from the last hassles I had!

 So, noodles is now working. Just need to config mserver and move the
dnscache to noodles and it'll be perfect.

 *Looks chuffed with himself*

 Bedtime.

 Baz.
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Barrie J. Bremner

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