Questions regarding kernel 2.2.1 and masquerading.
Hi everybody.
I've got a machine here I want to use as a firewall/masquerade box. I've
compiled and installed kernel 2.2.1 using kernel-package and then replaced
the things listed on the page dealing with Debian 2.1 and kernel 2.2.x
issues... Namely, I've installed the newer netbase from potato.
However, I may have gone about this completely the wrong way (I'm new to
all of this), what I did was:
After figuring out what packages I had that broke when using kernel 2.2.1,
I went about grabbing them from potato via ftp. The only package I required
was netbase, but on attempting to install that, I found I needed to upgrade
my libc, which then led me to find out I needed to upgrade apt. So I
grabbed those via ftp and installed them in the order: apt, libc6, netbase.
Now, everything seems to be running fine, but I have a bad feeling that
I've done this completely the wrong way.
What makes me think this, is that if I run dselect, it tries to install the
timezone package that was removed when I updated libc6, and it also sees
libc6 as installed, but it wants to install the older one...
Was this the correct install procedure, and if not, what should I have done?
I have one other question, when reading through the IP Masq howto, it
refers to an /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall (and other /etc/rc.d/ scripts such as
rc.local)... since I know Debian has a different layout to that, where do
those files go? I've read through the Debian policy, but it didn't really
help.. what's the story with these
Thanks in advance for your help to these relatively stupid questions. :-)
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Matthew Gregan kinetik@ihug.co.nz
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