11i and smoothwall

[Ian Warner]

I am trying to connect an rp2430 running 11i to the orange network of smoothwall 2.0.
After the ux server boots, I can connect to the server from the green network for up to 4 minutes before all connectivty is lost. The server stays up and appears to run happily. To check that it was not a smoothwall issue, I connected a linux server to the same network and that is constantly available.

[bhavin asokan]

hi,

see following link

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=27819

regds,

[Ron Kinner · Accepted solution]

Appears smoothwall, whatever that may be, does not respond to pings so that after about 3 minutes, HP's dead gateway detection is pulling the plug on all connections that would go through the smoothwall.

You need to turn it off with ndd:

You can test it with:

ndd -get /dev/ip ip_ire_gw_probe

if it comes back with 1 then dead gateway detection is on. ) means it is off. Turn it off with:

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_ire_gw_probe 0

Remove the gateway and readd it using route. Seems that once you turn off dead gateway detection the process that removes a gateway from the dead list stops too. It should work now.


Make it permanent by adding:

TRANSPORT_NAME[0]=ip
NDD_NAME[0]=ip_ire_gw_probe
NDD_VALUE[0]=0

to /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf (if you already have entires in nddconf then use the next available integer in the brackets.)

Ron