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> -----Original Message----- > From: Quark AV - Hilton Travis [mailto:Hilton at QuarkAV dot com] > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 2:39 PM > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] No Link-up Detected > > Hi All, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Eglington [mailto:aeglington at hotmail dot com] > > Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:14 > > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] No Link-up Detected > > > > I was installing (smirk, like booting from CD is an > > 'install' - I love it!).. installing a first time m0n0 > > tonight and also came up against this problem of it > > saying the link is not detected, despite it clearly > > being plugged in. > > Does 'no link up detected' mean the card thinks it's > > not plugged in? surely it doesnt relate to the subnet > > being in a different range? (because mine was at the > > time - default m0n0 = 192.168.. and PC set to 172.16..) > > I'm not sure what I did, which likely means its just > > m0n0 being a bit buggy, but after trying auto the usual > > 'few times', i went to manually assign and noticed > > "link up" (or whatever the wording is) indicated next > > to the card I was about to assign as LAN... so > > evidently it decided to see it in this manual context. > > I have performed quite a few m0n0wall installs, and have never seen the > "auto detect" actually work, no matter what network cards I have had in > the > machines. If anyone here has actually had an "auto detect" find their > NIC, > please let us know. > > I have a funny feeling this feature is broken, and if so, we may as well > ask > Manuel to remove it from the options - if it never works, then why have it > there to confuse people? > It's worked for me, though I haven't thoroughly tested it or anything. Just plugged in a cable and it said 'link detected on eth0' or w/e it was. I ended up having to set the card assignments by hand because I have a weird interface setup, plus some older 10BaseT 3com NIC's that the link-detection didn't detect. The link-detection only seems to work when you have a newer NIC card. > > However all works like a charm now. Sweeeet, another > > smoothwall convert to rack up to m0n0wall's credit. In > > fact i suspect if i was to stick the CD and floppy in > > the smoothwall box and boot I could have both m0n0 or > > smooth on demand simply by booting with or without > > the CD/floppy. > > There are quite a few SmoothWall converts on this list, and a lot more not > on this list. With the built-in Telstra BigPond Cable authentication > client, m0n0wall has great potential in the Australian broadband market. > I'm just waiting for 1.1 to go "gold" before I mention m0n0wall to a few > local computer magazines. > > > Now... where's the pretty traffic graph images? > > Pretty or not, I can see comprehensive traffic graphing being a useful > plugin for many people. Of course, the sexier the better. :) > I converted from IPCop, if it matters :D. Though, I do like the content filtering addonz and web caching of IPCop. Oh well, can't have everything, right? :> -Kyle Mott http://www.klmhosting.net/ > -- > > Regards, > > Hilton Travis Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 > Manager, Mobile: +61 (0)419 792 394 > Quark IT http://www.QuarkIT.com.au/ > Quark AudioVisual http://www.QuarkAV.net/ > (Brisbane, Australia) > > Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus > Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations > Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording > > War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |