[lug] startup problem

[Chris Wade]

Hi all,

I've been able to workaround this problem but I'm curious why it's happening
in the first place.

I've configured SuSEfirewall to do IP masquerading, the first time I started
it up it worked, and when I rebooted it worked fine.

Tonight I played with some of the settings, and later when I rebooted the
firewall wouldn't start.  I put everything back the way it was, tried
rebooting again, still wouldn't start.  Watching the messages go by during
startup, it appeared that the firewall was trying to start before the eth
cards were started, so it couldn't find the cards, so it gave errors.  I
don't know where to find the log of the startup, maybe if someone could tell
me where this is I could post it.

Why would the order of devices have changed during startup?  Nothing that I
know of that would have affected it changed between last reboot and this
one; the only thang that changed was the firewall config script, and if I
set START_FW to 'no' in rc.config and start the firewall manually after boot
it works fine.

Learning, learning...

Thanks,

Chris