Re: firewall setup - firewall newbie

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Edward Chase wrote:
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> OK after a Win95 boot disk and 3c5x9cfg, I've got my nics on 2
> different Interrupts and now they both came up.
> 
> However they flip flopped.
> 
> Not that this is a huge deal, but I don't want them to keep flip
> flopping each time I boot.

Something worth looking at with this is either the 'nameif' tool, which
allows you to set the interface name based on the MAC address, or using
one of the pre-up scripts that checks the MAC address of the NIC - they
came with the ifupdown package as examples.

     Daniel
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