plumbing qfe2

2007-12-25 10:00:00

Original question:

> Is there some oddity in getting the plumb to work on a

> QuadEthernet card?

> I have one here on a production box, where qfe2 is not in

> service. I'm

> trying

> to bring this interface up for use without taking the machine out of

> service,

> but

> # ifconfig qfe2 plumb

> just hangs.

> Oddity, or did I miss something? A look through the archives does not

> indicate

> anything out of the ordinary for QuadE cards.

Thanks for the replies from

Steve Gauthier

Stephen Harris

Olivier Giraud

Ray Delaney

After some discussions with Ray and Stephen, some info I had not included in

the original

question is that this machine runs CheckPoint Firewall-1. This S/W

apparently installs

itself in such a manner that the plumb will not work. All other "normal"

configuration

items were in place for the O/S. Putting together info from Ray and

Stephen, I shut down

Firewall-1, ran the plum successfully, configured the card with ifconfig,

and brought the

Firewall-1 back up within about 2 minutes, no reboot, and no-one knew the

difference. :-)

Now on to telling the firewall all about it's new interface....

Thanks to all of you.

- Alan

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