help needed

webmastermattd · n00b Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 10

Okay, I have an old gateway G6-200 (pentium pro 200, kinda old) that I have setup as a development box and have reasently updated the kernel from 2.4.21 to 2.6.0-test5. The Gentoo version still remains as 1.4-rc4 as I have not had the time to update this from bootstrap.

Now the problem that I am having is with the networking of the machine. With 2.4.22 it will send data across the network interfaces, though under 2.6.0-test5 it won't.
As far as I can determine, the kernel detects the network intrefaces correctly, and ifconfig assignes them their respective ipv4 addresses. There are relevent entries in /sys /dev and /proc for the devices and the system otherwise works fine.

If anyone has any suggestions as to finding a solution to the problem it would be greatly appreciated as this has me completely stumped.

later,
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mglauche · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject:

what does /etc/conf.d/iptables say ? (there should be some ip_forwarding option)

webmastermattd · n00b Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 10

Thanks for your reply.
/etc/conf.d/iptables has
ENABLE_FORWARDING_IPv4="yes"

Even if I disable all iptables stuff and just try to do a
ping 192.168.1.x -I192.168.1.1
it will completely bum out.
This is really giving me trouble as my knowledge is not broad enough to fix the task.
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