Thanks for the response.
Regarding IPSec, RedHat does not have a "generic" implementation?
I installed RH7.0 Professional with Kernel 2.2.16. During the installation
the NIC was recognized and I configured it with an IP address (10.10.10.20
with mask of 255.255.255.0). I could not ping the interface until I put it
in the host configuration using the network configuration gui tool. After I
did this I could only ping 10.10.10.20 and could not ping any other device
on the LAN.
Thanks for the assistance.
Craig Morse
PFN
Engineer
253.284.3006
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael R. Jinks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IPSec and Network Configuration
Craig Morse wrote:
> 1. I was wondering what the command would be to verify what
was
> compiled in the kernel, namely, I am trying to determine what I
need to have
> compiled to use IPSec for VPNs.
I don't know of a good, general way to query a kernel for its range
of
compiled-in functionality. If you find one let me know.
But it is pretty unlikely that your existing machine would have
IPSec
functions compiled in unless you put it there yourself. For a long
time
they couldn't make IPSec part of the stock kernel due to US crypto
restrictions, and I don't think that's changed since the crypto
restrictions were loosened.
Adding in IPSec functinality is really easy, though. Go to
www.freeswan.org.
> 2. I am wondering what all needs to be configured to have the
NIC
> operate properly. I configured a 10/100 NIC with an IP address,
mask, etc
> but it does not want to talk to other devices on the network.
Lots of things could be wrong but we'd need more detail to have some
idea what. How did you install Linux? Which distro, which version?
Most distributions will detect your network card and take care of
the
details for you during installation; the fact that yours doesn't
work
suggests that something went wrong somewhere, but like I said it's
tough
to know what without more information. Can you ping your machine's
own
address? I don't mean localhost, I mean the IP address that your
NIC
should be assigned, from the machine itself.
--
~~~Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation~~~
With all due respect to Kenny Rogers,
the best that you can hope for is a return code of zero.
Opinions expressed above are my own, and not those of my computer.
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