Ch'Gans wrote: > Chris Brandstetter wrote: >> I am trying to setup a Sun Ultra 2 with the onboard sunhme, and 2 >> sunqe cards as a firewall. THe problem I am having is that if I >> add sunqe to the modules file in /etc so that it loads on boot I >> get a list of about 20 iptables rules all for the sunhme port, and >> after that the system says the sunhme port is not connected to the >> ethernet cable. However if I just insmod the module after bootup >> everything works fine. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas >> what could be causeing this? > This sounds like a problem with the netwok card numbering, i guess > that putting sunqe in /etc/mod..., then your sunqe are probed before > your sunhme card, and so you don't get the interface/card association > as expected. [...] > Perhaps another solution is to not put sunqe in /etc/modules.conf, > and then load and configure these 2 network cards in /etc/rc.d/local > or something similar. I'm not familiar with Sun kit, but the ifrename package allows you to assign fixed names to interfaces based on MAC addresses, which may be a more elegant solution to your problem. Dave
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