From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 21:37:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D007637B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.05) id A6A24AE9028E; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:41:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:40:56 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: NIC problem - no status:active in ifconfig -a Message-Id: <20010221214056.6c48d2d6.chip@wiegand.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.61 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE; i386) Organization: wiegand.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a firewall machine with two nics that seems to be having a problem - when accessing my web site on a public isp it redirects to my home web server where natd then redirects the incoming http request to my web server. This had been working just fine for most of a year, now it no longer works. I can connect to the web server from inside my home network and the web server does return the web pages, so apache does work just fine. I can ping both nics in the firewall and get a response from both, from the machine itself and from any machine in the network. So it appears both nics are working properly. I run ifconfig -a and both nics show their proper ip addresses etc, but - one nic shows status: active and the other does not show status anything. The nic with the inside address of 192.168.1.10 (xl0) shows status: active, the outside nic with address 208.194.173.26 (ep1) does not show status: active. Is this a problem? Could it have something to do with natd not redirecting the incoming http requests? All machines on my network are able to access the net just fine. I don't know what to check next. -- Chip Wiegand Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message