[CentOS] Lan Kernel Problem

Mon Oct 22 21:38:51 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

Quoting Linux Man <linuxman.uru at gmail.com>:

> I'm building a Linux box to act as Proxy/Router/Firewall.
> I'm using CentOS 4.5, with an "old" motherboard (Asus A8V-X), and two
> Ethernet NIC, based on a realtek chip, that's widely supported under
> 2.4 and later kernel (the cards were functioning excellent in another
> PC whit Fedora Core 1).
> CentOS detects the on board LAN, but not the other two, in fact,
> knoppix 5.0.1 doesn't detect too (kernel 2.6.17), but, Knoppix 5.1.1
> (kernel 2.6.19) detects all three cards.
> Do you have any idea why this behavior?
> Centos 5.0 detects all three too, but I don't now why, my firewall
> script (ipv4) doesn't work with this release.

By any chance does your firewall use '-m owner --cmd-owner' in it?

Barry