[K12OSN] NAT not starting on bootup

[Burke Almquist]

Check the logs at startup, if it is failing to start, or crashing  
right after boot, it should give you an idea why. Does it say anything.

On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Petre Scheie wrote:

> The power went out this morning and when it came back on the  
> K12LTSP server booted with no problems, and the thin clients were  
> able to connect as normal.  But I also have some Windows boxes on  
> the same network and they get their addresses from the LTSP server  
> and treat it (the server) as the default gateway, which was  
> working.  So far, so good.  But the Windows boxes couldn't connect  
> to the internet.  After poking around a bit I concluded that NAT  
> wasn't running: there was no /proc/net/ipconntrack file.  The /etc/ 
> init.d/nat script doesn't support the 'status' switch, so I just  
> ran 'service nat start', /proc/net/ipconntrack appeared, and the  
> Windows boxes were able to get to the internet.
>
> I noticed the same problem a couple months ago when I first  
> installed the server at the site, that NAT was not working after  
> bootup.  chkconfig shows NAT to be on for runlevels  2-5.  What  
> would cause it to not start at boot?
>
> Petre
>
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