[plug] Mandrake Fire wall

[Dirk Modrow]

I have found the gateway settings ahh much better :) it lost all of its IP 
configuration like a complete wipe, no routing no ip adresses its probatly 
what u said  that would explain why it fell over so quickly ... with no 
settings applied is there a vi for windows ?

At 03:13 PM 7/08/2003, you wrote:
>>1st On install it some values are written in like the gateway address 
>>once it is punched in I cant seem to change it through the menu system 
>>(once rebooted and all is happy) so I thought I would log in as root ... 
>>well can I can use route to change the default and as such alter it but 
>>only when the system is running on reboot it goes back to the  original 
>>version :(
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>Yeah. "route add" etc is all in-kernel settings only, so it won't be 
>remembered across reboots. Perhaps there's a config file you can edit, 
>maybe /etc/sysconfig/network ?
>
>>2nd I tried to do a backup and alter the gateway in the text file but 
>>upon restoring the file to the system it completely fell over in a 
>>screaming heap upon restore  :( I did use notepad to alter the backup 
>>file maybe thats it but I should think not... Can anyone shed some light 
>>on this?
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>Generally, you'll want to use vi or some other UNIX text editor to modifiy 
>config files. Notepad will insert <CR><LF> line endings, which may confuse 
>some programs reading the config file.
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>How did it misbehave anyway? refuse to route packets, refuse to boot, etc?
>
>Craig Ringer