Re: Strange tcp/ip failure setting up firewall: NEVER MIND

["Michael R. Jinks" <mrjinks wwa com>]

Once again, ispiration strikes right after I hit the damn "send"
button.  My tcp/ip works fine now, after the quick installation of tcp
wrappers and NetKit-B-0.09-6.  Why they went south in the first place I
don't know, but I'm off and running.

-m


Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to make a firewall from scratch on an old Compaq 486, and I'm
> confused about some programs that aren't showing up somewhere along the
> way.  Install seems to go fine (via NFS mounting the RedHat cd on
> another Linux box) but I'm missing all of my tcp/ip-related binaries.
> ping, ifconfig, ftp and company are all nowhere to be found.  I did an
> rpm -qf for those files on my working Linux machine, but rpm says that
> no package owns them, so they should be part of the main install,
> right?  Any idea why they wouldn't be showing up?
> 
> Possibly related:  I can rebuild the kernel using make config (and then
> make zdisk successfully makes a bootable floppy), but make menuconfig
> terminates with a missing file error.  When I tell it to make modules it
> doesn't complain, but make modules_install returns:
> 
> ls: *.o: no such file or directory
> 
> and then exits.  I don't have Xwindows installed on this machine so
> xconfig is out of the question.  Is there a bundle of files somewhere
> that needs to be installed in addition to the kernel-source and
> kernel-headers rpm's before I can build a modularized kernal with full
> tcp/ip support?
> 
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