Been quite mad in the office the past few days since the move. Things are still not all organized yet, such as the ADSL connection, networking cables, etc. Everyday we come in and get distracted from work slightly. I just wish it all gets sorted out in a few days or a week’s time.

At home, I managed to mess up my gateway configuration completely. I upgraded a few things in Debian and messed it up. After a reboot, the box connects to the net, but even simple name resolution or pinging doesn’t work. It’s really confused. I need to upgrade Debian fully now or re-install. Reinstalling actually gives my a chance to play around with SME Server which is a linux gateway that installs simply from a CD, similar to Smoothwall.

stupid me! I just solved the gateway problem, and there was nothing wrong with it to begin with! I spent an hour with my 7 debian CDs dist-upgrading the gateway and I found the problem was that I had rebooted the system after a very long time and it had re-initialised it’s networking configuration from the files in /etc/network/interfaces. In that file I had specified my laptop to be my gateway, which is the way it used be a very long time ago. I must have changed the default route without rebooting the machine (a good thing) and after the reboot it was looking for my laptop Well that goes to show that linux never needing a reboot can cause problems