Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: changing ethernet devices, new one stops cold at iptables | Date | Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:28:14 -0400 |
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On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:50, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I can ping the firewall, and I can ssh into it, so that part of >> the network is fine, I just cannot get past iptables in the >> firewall when eth0 is the nforce hardware, which has a different >> MAC address. > >Have you verified that the routing got correctly set up on the new > box? > > ip ro ls > >The usual cause to the symptoms you describe is that the default > route has gone missing or is invalid.
The routing was good, showing the fireall as the default gateway address.
In this case, the fix was to reboot the firewall so that its arp tables got refreshed to match the new MAC address of the onboard nforce (forcedeth) nic. Once that was done, everything was peachy.
Thanks, I appreciate the reply, Henrik.
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