> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank > Reichenbacher > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 1:29 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [redhat] Mysterious problem: can't backtrack an > unwise router installation > > > I have a small home network which ran wonderfully for several > years with an RH 7.0 box as the network gateway and firewall > (using pmfirewall). The home LAN is all on static IPs: > 192.168.1.1-5 and the IP assigned to me by my ISP is > 66.93.153.62, with a gateway of 66.93.153.1. Pmfirewall > masqued everything internally to the outside network. I have > an apache webserver on the RH 7.0 box with about a dozen > virtual servers configured in httpd.conf. I make a few bucks > a month on a ezmlm email list using qmail also on the RH 7.0 > box. The domain, mollynet.com is DNSed at Zoneedit.com. > > I've been using a separate modem and dial-up connection with > MS Remote Desktop from my XP workstation to connect to my > office network. This is very slow and unsatisfactory, so I > installed a MultiTech RouterFinder 560 at the office on our > W2K server/XP workstation LAN to help facilitate remote > connections (I have other remote users to the office LAN using XP). > > My computer consultant then talked me into installing the > same router on my home LAN and disabling the RH 7.0 box as > the LAN gateway so that I could use the speed of my DSL > connection to connect to my office LAN. This was necessary > because of my inability to configure pmfirewall to let me get > through the RH 7.0 box using MS Remote Desktop from my home > LAN XP workstation. I figured it would be much easier to > accomplish this task with the same VPN router on both ends of > the conection. > > This involved the following steps: > > 1. Removed the ethernet cable connecting the DSL modem from > eth0 (3com 3c900 Combo, 3c59x driver) on the RH 7.0 box and > plugged it into the SOHO Router outlet labelled "WAN". > > 2. Used netcfg to deactivate eth0 > > 3. Used netcfg to change the gateway on the RH 7.0 box to > 192.168.1.100 (the SOHO Router) and make eth1 (3com 3c905C-TX > Fast Etherlink, 3c90x driver, the internal LAN device) as the > gateway device. All I did on the XP workstations was to > change the gateway from 66.93.152.62 to 192.168.1.100. > > 4. Used the handy-dandy browser configuration program that > came with the router to redirect ports 80, 110, 25, etc. to > 192.168.1.1 (the RH 7.0 box) so that my web and email server > would still function. > > 3. Ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/pmfirewall stop to shut down the firewall. > > It worked. > > ...sort of. > > I have no idea why, but my virtual webs are ignored and all > http requests come to the root web at www.mollynet.com. The > http logs (which are set up for each virtual server in > httpd.conf) show no activity to any of the virtual servers > and all activity is now directed to transfer log. And I am > unable to pop3 to local qmail email accounts from any of the > LAN workstations and I can't use the qmail smtp sever either. > > This is obviously no good, but what is worse is that I now > find I cannot return the system to its original configuration > at all. It is as if using netcfg to deactivate eth0 has > actually permanently deactivated it. Retracking my steps > results in a non-functioning network that can't ping to the > WAN at all. So my question to the group really is about this: > why does using netcfg to reactivate eth0 not work? How can I > diagnose this problem to determine whether eth0 is totally > dead for some reason? > > Frank > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
