At 02:21 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:
>Check to see if you are running the DEC Tulip drivers, if thats the case
>there are known problems with them and upgrading to the 2.4 kernel seems to
>help.  Also if thats your problem, you don't have to reboot your machine,
>just bringing the network up and down will reset them and get them working
>again. (on redhat/mandrake and some others "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
>restart")

In slack you'd just 

kill -1 <pid of inetd>

this will restart your network.

upgrading your kernel to a 2.4 one sounds like a good start.

Here's the link to that HOWTO for setting up your firewall and what to compile into the kernel for 2.4.x

http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/
http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/ipmasq-howto.html



>On a firewall at work I put a bash scirpt that would ping sevral addresses
>and if they were ALL down it would reset the network, you could try making a
>similar program, sorry I can't supply it for you, I stopped needing it since
>I upgraded it, and it have since gotten lost in the wood work (I can't
>remember what I called it :).
>
>Brian Cluff
>----- Original Message -----
>
>> forwarding packets to or from the windows box.  I can log into the linux
>> box itself and it will let me run programs.  If the program is network
>> related such as ping, it won't work.  It won't let me ping the windows
>> box or anything on the internet.  This also applies to ftp, http,
>> whatever.
>
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