Re: firestarter problem

Dana Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:54:37 +0200,
Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kaze:
Hello,

Nikola Skoric a écrit :

I connect to Internet using KNetworkManager over eth0 to ADSL
modem. Everything works great, no problems there. But, today I
connected my sister's winXP through a crossover to my eth1,
started firestarter and did that incredibly trivial wizard.

Do you mean that you didn't use firestarter before ?

Sorry for the delay, I had angina in the mean time :-)

No, I didn't use firestarter before.

When I click
"save" on that wizard (or whenever i try to start the firewall) I get
"Failed to start the firewall. The device eth0 is not ready." error.
What do you mean "not ready", I'm using eth0 while writing this
post...

The output of "ifconfig -a" may help tell what's wrong with eth0.

nick@rilmir:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:02:D8:C9
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:739760 (722.4 KiB) TX bytes:32226 (31.4 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:B3:67:31
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:20

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:02:D8:C9
inet addr:169.254.7.190 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8000

eth1:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:B3:67:31
inet addr:169.254.6.211 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:20

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3060 (2.9 KiB) TX bytes:3060 (2.9 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:78.0.79.74 P-t-P:172.29.252.37 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:724456 (707.4 KiB) TX bytes:16550 (16.1 KiB)



And, of course, the winXP machine can't reach the Internet.

Are the two boxes able to communicate with each other at IP layer at least ?

Nope. I set default gateway on the XP machine to point to my Linux machine,
but ping can't reach windows from linux and vice versa.

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