[TriLUG] network services timeout & boot disk bypass

rasch at raschnet.com rasch at raschnet.com
Tue Aug 5 10:00:10 EDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:42:21AM -0400, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> howdy all-
> 
> i have an extremely old (i guess that is relative; pentium 120 packard 
> bell -- RIP!) computer running RH 8.0 that we setup to use as a sFTP 
> server. if you were following my stories from yesterday, our space is 
> under construction -- so they've been shut down for awhile (this 
> computer is different than the other one i'm having problems with).
> 
> anywho, the problem i'm having with this one is that it seems the 
> network services in and out (ping, ftp, ssh/scp/sftp) shut down after 
> about 2-5 minutes of booting. anyone have any ideas of what is going on?
> 
> on an unrelated note, this computer is unable to boot to CDROM, and i 
> tried to use a boot disk to upgrade to RH 9, but it bypasses the boot 
> disk (after thinking about reading it) and goes straight to grub -- any 
> ideas on that?

Any chance you isntalled a firewall package that might be starting up
and blocking these servies?  Shorewall takes almost 5 minutes to startup
on my P-90 :)

David
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