2004-05-05, 10:53 PM
Hi everyone. I posted earlier about not being able to get online with Fedora. After a lot of help in #fedora on Efnet, I've been able to set it up.
Now I've got 2 NICs in the fedora box and am running it as a firewall/router for my LAN. I configured my XBox and can connect on XBox live, my XP machine can surf and play games, almost everything is good.
The problem right now is that eth1 (internal) keeps going Inactive for no apparent reason. I can hit activate in the network configuration window and everything works just fine, but it will eventually turn itself back to inactive, and the LAN cant use the net. Is this a software problem, or should I replace the NIC?
The other issue I'm having is configuring Outlook XP to work through Firestarter. I've set my send/recieve servers to the IP address instead of a hostname, but I still can't send or recieve mail. I've allowed all services to run through Firestarter. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks again.