[WBEL-users] strange problem with WBEL 3.0

[Daniel T. Gynn]

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'chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off' does not turn off iptables.  It
says when you reboot that it won't come on.  To clear your tables, you
must run '/sbin/iptables -F'. =20


On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:31, Greg Brown wrote:
> I just installed WBEL on a machine which was last running RH 9.0.  The=20
> installation went smoothly but I am now having a problem obtaining a=20
> DHCP address from my DHCP server.
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> My physical layer is good (I was obtaining a DHCP address on the same=20
> box running RH 9) though I have changed from my small desktop linksys=20
> switch to my secondary port on my VOIP phone just to test and still no=20
> DHCP address.  I am currently plugged back into the small Linksys=20
> switch along with my OS X laptop and XP laptop.
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> I stopped iptables (chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off) and I=20
> continue to try to get an address by issuing 'service network restart'=20
> commands while plugged into the switch and still I get nothing.  Both=20
> my Mac OS X laptop and my XP laptop got DHCP addresses while plugged=20
> into the linksys switch, so it would appear I don't have a problem=20
> communicating with the DHCP server from this switch.
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> The ethernet card in the WBEL box is a 3c905.  My=20
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks like:
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> # 3Com Corportation|3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
> DEVICE=3Deth0
> BOOTPROTO=3Ddhcp
> ONBOOT=3Dyes
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=3Dgb-webel
> USERCTL=3Dno
> PEERDNS=3Dyes
> TYPE=3DETHERNET
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> I have nearly this exact configuration at home on my WBEL box (P-III,=20
> 3c905) and it works flawlessly without and tweaking once the software=20
> had been installed.  I can verify that iptables has stopped (just to be=20
> sure ICMP is not being blocked) by checking chkconfig --list | grep=20
> iptables which returns:
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> iptables	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
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> Any ideas?  I must be missing something very simple here, but I just=20
> can't see what it is.
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> Greg
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