FC2T2 experience & networking problem

[Jon Homan]

Hi,

I have installed FC2T2 and have had some problems which I resolved, and
some which I haven't.

After my first installation attempt I rebooted and saw hundreds of
messages like:

   'denied {write} for pid=1 exe=/sbin/init'

Reading the selinux-faq in the release notes I tried adding 'selinux=0'
to my kernel boot options. Now rebooting gives a different message:

   'Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!'

Back to the faq. Ah, reiserfs is not supported (but the installer allows
you to do 'linux reiserfs' to enable support) with selinux. So I
reinstalled and reformatted with ext3. Now I can boot, and things are
looking up :-)

Except networking is not working properly. I have a DHCP assigned IP
address via a NetGear router (this all works fine in FC1). I can ping
sites, but ftp or http just sit there. I disabled the firewall, set
selinux=0, but no difference. I tried using traceroute, to see if
anything was happening and I got the following:

# traceroute www.cosmiczoo.com

  1  10.181.64.1 (10.181.64.1)  23.645 ms  15.788 ms  14.497 ms
  2  gsr01-hw.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.144.129)  9.074 ms  9.416 ms
12.499 ms
  3  172.18.28.37 (172.18.28.37)  10.021 ms  22.853 ms  46.619 ms
      MPLS Label=1027 CoS=3 TTL=1 S=0
  4  tele2-har-pos.telewest.net (194.117.136.26)  10.589 ms  13.521 ms
10.091 ms
      MPLS Label=29 CoS=3 TTL=1 S=0
  5  194.117.136.173 (194.117.136.173)  11.627 ms  14.892 ms  11.851 ms
  6  linx.ge-0-0-0.gbr1.ltn.nac.net (195.66.224.94)  12.694 ms  10.224
ms  9.721 ms
  7  0.so-0-3-0.gbr2.nwr.nac.net (209.123.11.209)  83.266 ms  122.052 ms
  79.486 ms
  8  0.so-0-3-0.gbr1.oct.nac.net (209.123.11.233)  82.857 ms  81.405 ms
  103.185 ms
  9  209.123.182.243 (209.123.182.243)  77.477 ms  113.146 ms  78.660 ms
10  * * *

Then since ping was working I figured ICMP was too. So using traceroute
with ICMP rather than UDP gives:

  1  10.181.64.1 (10.181.64.1)  9.752 ms  49.872 ms  8.904 ms
  2  gsr01-hw.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.144.129)  8.468 ms  10.154 ms
9.297 ms
  3  172.18.28.37 (172.18.28.37)  8.527 ms  11.143 ms  8.504 ms
      MPLS Label=1027 CoS=3 TTL=1 S=0
  4  tele2-har-pos.telewest.net (194.117.136.26)  52.927 ms  14.939 ms
20.337 ms
      MPLS Label=29 CoS=3 TTL=1 S=0
  5  194.117.136.173 (194.117.136.173)  12.734 ms  12.772 ms  10.832 ms
  6  linx.ge-0-0-0.gbr1.ltn.nac.net (195.66.224.94)  10.455 ms  8.482 ms
  24.939 ms
  7  0.so-0-3-0.gbr2.nwr.nac.net (209.123.11.209)  79.387 ms  78.943 ms
  78.381 ms
  8  0.so-0-3-0.gbr1.oct.nac.net (209.123.11.233)  112.862 ms  79.463 ms
  104.393 ms
  9  209.123.182.243 (209.123.182.243)  79.304 ms  208.909 ms  78.218 ms
10  serv1.silverdns.com (66.246.86.2)  84.249 ms  80.537 ms  84.143 ms

Which is the right answer. This is about where my networking knowledge
runs out.


P.S. There's a typo in the URL in the release notes for the NSA faq. It
should be http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm.

Thanks,