I have an older 486 w/6megs(max for this machine) running mandrake 6.0.
This machine is my gateway/firewall to the internet. It always is able to
access the net for its own,but, If I want the other machines to be able to
see the internet I have to ping one of them from the 486. After this all
the machines on the in house net have normal access. So basically I have
to log in and ping the internal net on the 486 every time I lose power or
reboot. Also I get error messages on eth1, it says that eth1 generated a
tx interupt with no status. I have intel etherexpress 16 net cards
installed. Doesn't make any difference which one is used as eth1, still get
that error message repeatedly when someone is on the internet on the other
machines,this also screws up my screen on the 486 forcing me to hit return
or have the app I'm running rescroll its screen so I can get rid of those
error messages. At the least I would like to send those error messages to
/dev/null and also not have to ping to activate the interal net.
Any ideas?
thanks Dennis
