At Thursday, 15 January 2004, Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, Debian User. > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Debian User wrote: >> i reboot my new system after a week or so of runtime. upon restarting
>> the os, several things were amiss: > >That's a feature. > >> an entry in the routing table to the gateway was missing. i was able >> to route add the entry again. shouldn't this entry persist after >> a reboot? > >Add appropriate ``gateway'' stanza in /etc/network/interfaces; see >interfaces(5). Or simply add the gateway-adding command to >/etc/init.d/network. > >> iptables rules did not persist as shown by iptables -L the table >> was empty and packets were not being forwarded from the 192.168.1. >> 1 eth1 interface to the 10.20.1.158 eth0 interface. iptables -t nat >> -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE has not helped my situation. > >(1) Setup your iptables configuration. >(2) Do ``iptables-save > /etc/iptables.conf''. >(3) Add ``iptables-restore < /etc/iptable.conf'' to /etc/init.d/network. > >Do NOT use /etc/init.d/iptables until it's audited -- there is/was a >potential security breach (see Bug#225805), and other issues are >probably to be discovered. > >Alternatively, you can modularize the setup, using >/etc/network/interfaces. > >> my default xwindow manager i thought was kde ... xdm is now coming > >From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: >| X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window >| system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". > >> up as the default and i cannot seem to prevent this from happening. > >apt-get install kdm; maybe apt-get remove xdm > Jan, Thanks for your help. I also needed to echo 1 > proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to get it working too. Harland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
