why must I reconfigure the firewall each day? My ISP recently had issues that made me think it was my machine; fortunately, it was them. I'm connected at theis time, otherwise I would not be able to post this thread. For the past 4 days, I've had to reconfigure the firewall as if the settings aren't saved. I did not have to do this before my ISP flaked.
Today, I just disabled the firewall in order to connect.

Must I enter the DNS and IP information again from the beginning like a new connection?

Thanks,

Stand-alone machine
SuSe 9.0 Personal

Unless your ISP have given you a fixed IP address, the device you are connecting with should be set to using DHCP.

I supect at this point there's something wrong with you network card/modem configuration file - could you post it up maybe?

If you don't know, the config file is found in /etc/sysconfig/network and will be called something like:
ifcfg-xxx where xxx is the name of the device.

L

Eth-0

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='3hqH.A43R3TiCiA1'

DSL-0

BOOTPROTO='none'
DEVICE='eth0'
MODEM_IP='10.0.0.138'
PPPD_OPTIONS=''
PPPMODE='pppoe'
PROVIDER='provider1'
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE=''
VPIVCI=''

Well..that looks just about ok, though I'd be tempted to set DEVICE=". I forgot to ask - could you post up your provider details (etc/sysconfig/network/provider)

ASKPASSWORD='no'
AUTODNS='yes'
DEMAND='no'
DSLSUPPORTED='yes'
FIREWALL='yes'
IDLETIME='0'
ISDNSUPPORTED='no'
MODEMSUPPORTED='no'
MODIFYDNS='yes'
PASSWORD='xxx'
PHONE=''
PROVIDER='xxx'
USERNAME='xxx'


L

Strannge, it worked normally last evening and today, so far. Here is the provider information youuuu requested:




ASKPASSWORD='no'
DEMAND='no'
DSLSUPPORTED='yes'
FIREWALL='no'
IDLETIME='300'
ISDNSUPPORTED='no'
MODEMSUPPORTED='no'
MODIFYDNS='yes'
PASSWORD= ?????????
PHONE=''
PROVIDER='sbc (1)'
USERNAME='????????@sbcglobal.net'
DEFAULTROUTE='yes'
IPADDR=''
MODIFYIP='yes'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''

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Thanks so much for being available to provide assistance