I have just found what may be another Network Manager (NM) stupidity. I have two NICs on my laptop (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html) running Fedora Core 5. One is a wired Ethernet interface, the other a wireless Ethernet interface. In system-config-network, I have anchored eth0 and eth1 to specific MAC addresses. I recently switched from using the usual configuration tools to NM. I just found out is that NM seems to be ignoring that MAC address anchoring. It has swapped eth0 and eth1. As a result of this the firewall defined by firestarter does not work, and as a result of that my system is wide open and has been for several days. This came to my attention because I started to think I may have a root kit on my laptop, and started to track things down. "Pain-Free Networking", huh? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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