a cry for help

[solarbird]

murkworks.net is still very down (see murknet for very partial details) and I'm out of brain and clues. Anybody Debian 4.0 aware, particularly in regards to routing across multiple NICs, please, please, please shout.

ETA: thanks to fenton we are partially alive. (One default change btw. 2.2 and 4.0 was all that was left, but if you didn't know about it, it was a magic key, so for us: magic key!) We alive enough that you can reach ... most ... of our server functionality. More to come, monitor murknet for updates.

Comments

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Ack, that sounds frustrating. :( Sorry, I wish I could help, but I know nothing about Debian.

Let me know if you'd like me to pass the request on to my flist -- a few of them are software savvy.

[solarbird]

That's okay; we're alive. Mostly. Thanks; more to come.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it!

Good luck! :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

unfortunately, i don't have appropriately clues.

[solarbird]

all hail fenton!

[desert-dragon42.livejournal.com]

Jay can help. You can IM him at denebeim on Yahoo or MSN or AIM

[solarbird]

That's okay; we're alive. Mostly. Thanks for the offer; more to come.

2.2?

[wrog]

I seem to recall reading that Debian 4.0/etch needed at least a 2.6.18 kernel, and I was going through enough conniptions trying to keep the upgrade from 2.4 from failing on me.

Re: 2.2?

[solarbird]

You are correct; etch does require the 2.6 kernel series, which door is now running.

Re: 2.2?

[wrog]

I just like how there's a gap between the highest version sarge supports (2.6.8) and the lowest version etch supports.

They really need to not do that next time.

Re: 2.2?

[solarbird]

But the networking core is like a completely different animal now. I'm not sure there's a whole lot of option there.

Re: 2.2?

[wrog]

(Hm. I know there were huge changes between 2.2 and 2.4 when they replaced ipchains with iptables. Still, I would have thought they'd arrange things so that all of the ipcchains stuff would continue to work under 2.4 and 2.6; otherwise I'd imagine a whole lot of people would have been screaming bloody murder by now; or maybe they were and I just don't follow the relevant lists. Also doesn't quite explain why there had to be a gap in the supported 2.6 kernels, but anyway... I guess I'm in for a world of fun when it comes time to upgrade Fafner (my firewall))

Meanwhile, I just spent some time on kernelnewbies.org, and wow. I had no idea the linux kernel folks did so much between individual releases of what's supposed to be a "stable" kernel distribution. I guess the lesson here is, "Just stay the fuck away from the odd-numbered kernels."

Re: 2.2?

[solarbird]

IIRC, and I think I do, ipchains still does work under 2.4. It's 2.4->2.6-for-etch that's the big network core code jump, if I have it right. Which I may not, but I think I do.