From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brandon Evans <maillists@hosttuls.com>
Subject: Re: HowTo connect a Cisco 2950 switch behind iptables?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:57:14 -0700
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Brandon Evans wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have a Fedora 3 Box with 2 nics setup up as a firewall.
> I can connect another server to the firewall and get connected to the 
> Net just fine.  This doesnt work when I connect the switch to the 
> iptables box.  Obvysly I am missing something - can someone point me in 
> the right direction?
> 
> Here is my setup
> 
> ---WAN-->[iptables box]---->[cisco switch]--->[servers]
> 
> 

This turns out to be some sort of kernel issue.  As soon as I upgraded 
to 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4, the switch started working fine.


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Thanks,
     Brandon Evans

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