Installation

Every year Iowa State University has a competition where we (high school students) have to defend a network from a group of hackers (College Students) for around 8 hours (used to be longer, but oh well) and we have decided to use M0n0wall. Sadly we have no accomplished installing M0n0wall yet, for some reason it stalls at the line:
IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default=block all, Logging=enabled
After this it does nothing. I was wondering if you could help us

Thank you,

Michael Mowery

You'll have to give more to work with.....m0n0wall version in use, install method used, brief summary of your hardware, etc.

Were using version 1.233 and used physdiskwrite 0.5.1 to write M0n0wall 1.233 on to a 6 gig hard drive.

The machine is a Dell
Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz
Using Award BIOS version A00
Using One on board ethernet card and 3 other ethernet cards of random brands (Ill have to look into what brands)

We tried the install using the CD & Floppy method but had the same results.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Look thru the BIOS settings for the machine and verify that you have disabled Plug and Play to the extent possible.

Consider testing the memory with Memtest86 or similar.

You also might try removing all but one ethernet card and see how far it gets then (at least two are required, but start with one and try to get that far).


Also, you can try taking the hard drive to another machine and see if it boots all the way there.

The machine is a Dell
Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz
Using Award BIOS version A00

I would suggest you download the latest BIOS from Dell as I'm sure they released something newer than A00.  You might also want to find (very inexpensive on ebay) some Intel Pro 100 NICs as they seem to work the best on m0n0wall.  BTW, I think you would be better off running 1.3b10.  It's very stable and you have the hardware to run it on.

Good luck,  CS...

Thanks for the info! We upgraded the BIOS to a new version (A08) and installed 1.3b10 everything works good now.

That's good news.  Thanks for the update.

CS...