After having been hacked I am slowly making progress on setting up a firewall for my home network. I just finished installing Redhat 7.2 on my firewall system, which is an old 486 100mhz machine, and I have successfully gotten it to recognize my network card. When I use the ifconfig eth0 .... I can see and use the interface successfully. However, when I restart the machine the system does not initialize the network card on its own like the workstation system does. I went through the same basic steps as I did in Redhat 7.0 but everytime I start the system I have to type in the ifconfig command again to get the eth0 interface up and running. Any ideas on how I can get the system to initialize the interface automatically?
The other thing I would like to do is get the modem recognized which will be the outbound side of the firewall. Since the boot up checking for new hardware (kudzu I think?) is not recognizing the modem I though I would start debuggin by insuring that the serial port it is connected to is recognized by the operating system. Could somebody give me a hint as to how I might be able to check the system to see what serial ports it is aware of?
Thanks in advance.
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Sarig
