Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problems with bridging & routing (newbie)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Axel Vandevenne wrote:

>Hey
>
>With logging on nothing seems to happen on console 10 if you want to access 
>the internet from another box. There are a lot of boot messages there, and 
>the last 3 lines after booting are:
>
><date and pc name>: kernel: eth2: no IPv6 routers present
><date and pc name>: kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present
><date and pc name>: kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>Does this mean anything? Is it an error or just a notice? I only need IPv4, 
>and never said anything about IPv6...
>  
>
You can safely ignore those messages

>Then 10 minutes after booting (and trying to acces the internet with boxes in 
>the lan) this line appeared:
>
><date and pc name>: syslog-ng[523]: STATS: dropped 0
>  
>
This is just the syslog daemon which tells you, that it is still running.

>I assume this means that the firewall is configured correctly and that he 
>didn't drop any of the packages? 
>  
>
No this has nothing todo with the firewall, just the syslog daemon.

>As I already said, the router itself is unable to ping google, maybe that's 
>the problem, eth0 somehow doesn't work?
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>
Can you ping the IP address of google?
ping 216.239.41.99
ping 216.239.41.104

You need first to concentrate on getting the internet connection 
running, then the routing to the subnets.

>On our current Freesco router everything works (but the thing crashes a lot so 
>that's why I want to use Devil Linux)
>  
>
We should get that baby running...

Let's do some more analyzing:
Can you send us the output of:
ifconfig -a
route -n
iptables -L -v -n

cu
Heiko