Linux-Networking Digest #810, Volume #10 Sat, 10 Apr 99 13:13:50 EDT
Contents:
ISDN / BT Speedway Problem (HiSax/Fritz) (Simon Griffiths)
Re: Linux as NetWare Server? (Michael J Surette)
Re: mounting /usr via NFS with RedHat? (Nick B.)
CANT GET SMC1211TX CARD TO WORK UNDER LINUX ("Jey Kottalam")
Re: sendto: routing mess (Michael J Surette)
Re: DNS IP Question (Michael J Surette)
Re: Problem with outbound e-mail on 2.2.5 (Michael J Surette)
Re: Network Printer (Linux + MacOS + HP JetDirect) (Michael J Surette)
Linux network security issues? Re: qmail hell ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: 3c509B and 3c905B in same box (Larry Benoit)
100baseT 3Com adapter problem - works fine under Windoz but not Linux (Renaud)
Re: RH5.2, Solaris and NFS (John Murtari)
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From: Simon Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ISDN / BT Speedway Problem (HiSax/Fritz)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:47:07 +0100
Heeeeeelp.....
I've currently got a 2.2.5 kernel with modular support for IDSN/HiSax
(Fritz)
and a BT Speedway PCI card. All looks fine....
but I get :
Apr 10 14:10:23 localhost kernel: ISDN subsystem Rev:
1.55/1.47/1.55/1.33/none/1.2 loaded
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Driver for Siemens chip set
ISDN cards
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Version 2.8
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Revisions 2.18/2.7/2.5/2.13/2.7
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=Fritz
(0)
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: AVM driver Rev. 2.7
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: Byte at 7c00 is ff
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: Byte at 7c03 is ff
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: Byte at 7c02 is ff
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: Byte at 7c00 is ff
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: AVM A1 config irq:9 cfg:0x7C00
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: isac:0x7800/0x7400
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: hscx A:0x6800/0x6400 hscx
B:0x7000/0x6C00
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: ISAC version : 2085 V2.3
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: HSCX version A: ??? B: ???
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: AVM A1: wrong HSCX versions check IO
address
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card AVM A1 not installed !
Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: ISDN-subsystem unloaded
everytime I try to load the HiSax module with...
modprobe -v hisax io=0x6400 irq=9 protocol=2 type=5 id=Fritz
The io and irq settings are what NT4 thinks they are, and the card works
great in NT !
also 'insmod isdn' loads fine too !
Does anyone have any ideas ?
Thanks in advance,
Simon.
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux as NetWare Server?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:47:41 -0400
"David R. Christianson" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may sound wierd, but is there any package that will make Linux act
> like a NetWare server (like samba does for NT)? There is no productive
> reason why I want to do this, except to try something different and
> maybe do some performance comparisons.
>
> Dave
mars-nwe (Martin S - netware emulator) will do this. You can find it on
sunsite & mirrors under pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ncpfs. You might
also need the ncpfs package.
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From: Nick B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting /usr via NFS with RedHat?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:08:59 GMT
In article <7en7q1$527$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
> Has anybody already modified the RedHat 5.2 startup and shutdown procedure
> to allow for a machine to mount /usr via NFS from a server and still start
> up and shut down properly?
> --
> Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
> Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
> Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
>
Hi Georg:
If I understand correctly, you want to be able to mount via NFS a remote
filesystem and not have anything bad happen when your machine reboots.
Correct?
I believe that you should look at the section of the man page for mount that
deals with the options "hard", "soft", and "intr". You probably will want to
mount using "hard,intr" options, since this allows any process writing to the
filesystem to continue when the connection is reestablished. But, at the same
time, the user can interupt the process if desired.
In addition, you may want to investigate the "rsize" and "wsize" options in
an effort to optimize the speed of reads and writes to the NFS mounted
partition. I wrote the following little script to time various rsize,wsize
combinations. It writes the timing results to a file that you can then peruse
to determine the best set of parameters for your network/drive. You attention
should be directed at comparing the "elapsed" times for the different sets of
rsize,wsize parameters. (You will need to alter the definitions at the top of
this shell file to suit your own needs.)
The following line is my line from /etc/fstab to NFS mount a remote partition
named /user1 on machine euler: euler:/user1 /tmp/euler/user1 nfs
noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr 0 0
The following is the shell file to time reads and writes at various rsizes
and wsizes. The results log file can be read to determine the settings of
rsize and wsize for your installation.
=======================================================
#!/bin/bash
# nfs.test - Time reads and writes to a NFS mounted partition under
# various rsize,wsize parameters. I recommend performing
# this test several times and taking the averages of
# corresponding timings.
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Preliminaries:
# (Change the following definitions to time a different NFS mounted FS)
DIRECTORY="euler:/user1"
MOUNTPT="/tmp/euler/user1"
FILE="testnfseuler"
TESTDIR="/root/System"
RESULTS="$TESTDIR/nfs.test.euler.results"
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Begin by either creating or appending to an already existing log file:
cd $TESTDIR
# Comment out the following 2 lines in order to just append to the
# results file:
# 'rm' $RESULTS
# echo " " > $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "**************************************************" >> $RESULTS
echo "Testing NFS timings..." >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Start NFS testing..." >> $RESULTS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Testing rsize,wsize=1024...
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Testing rsize,wsize=1024..." >> $RESULTS
cd $MOUNTPT/..
umount $MOUNTPT
mount >> $RESULTS
mount -o rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,hard,intr $DIRECTORY $MOUNTPT
cd $MOUNTPT
'rm' $FILE
df >> $RESULTS
mount >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Writing..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testnfseuler bs=16k count=8192 >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Reading..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=testnfseuler of=/dev/null bs=16k >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Testing rsize,wsize=2048...
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Testing rsize,wsize=2048..." >> $RESULTS
cd $MOUNTPT/..
umount $MOUNTPT
mount >> $RESULTS
mount -o rw,rsize=2048,wsize=2048,hard,intr $DIRECTORY $MOUNTPT
cd $MOUNTPT
'rm' $FILE
df >> $RESULTS
mount >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Writing..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testnfseuler bs=16k count=8192 >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Reading..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=testnfseuler of=/dev/null bs=16k >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Testing rsize,wsize=4096...
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Testing rsize,wsize=4096..." >> $RESULTS
cd $MOUNTPT/..
umount $MOUNTPT
mount >> $RESULTS
mount -o rw,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,intr $DIRECTORY $MOUNTPT
cd $MOUNTPT
'rm' $FILE
df >> $RESULTS
mount >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Writing..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testnfseuler bs=16k count=8192 >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Reading..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=testnfseuler of=/dev/null bs=16k >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Testing rsize,wsize=8192...
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Testing rsize,wsize=8192..." >> $RESULTS
cd $MOUNTPT/..
umount $MOUNTPT
mount >> $RESULTS
mount -o rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr $DIRECTORY $MOUNTPT
cd $MOUNTPT
'rm' $FILE
df >> $RESULTS
mount >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Writing..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testnfseuler bs=16k count=8192 >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Test Reading..." >> $RESULTS
time dd if=testnfseuler of=/dev/null bs=16k >> $RESULTS 2>&1
echo " " >> $RESULTS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Cleanup...
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "Cleanup..." >> $RESULTS
cd $MOUNTPT
'rm' $FILE
cd $MOUNTPT/..
umount $MOUNTPT
mount $MOUNTPT
echo " " >> $RESULTS
df >> $RESULTS
mount >> $RESULTS
cd $TESTDIR
echo " " >> $RESULTS
echo "End NFS Testing..." >> $RESULTS
echo " " >> $RESULTS
===============================================
Good luck,
Nick B.
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From: "Jey Kottalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CANT GET SMC1211TX CARD TO WORK UNDER LINUX
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:22:31 GMT
What driver do I use to connect my SMC 1121TX card under linux?? I have
looked on the web but no one has the answer. PLEASE HELP! email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have a solution!
-Jey Kottalam
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendto: routing mess
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:03:49 -0400
MalayJ wrote:
> I feel I have no idea why I am adding a default route, an explanation would
> help.
>
> -- Malay
>
Your routing table determines where ip packets are sent to on the network. The
default route is where packets which are unspecified in your routing table will
go. In your case where you have only one network interface, all you will have
is a route to your loopback address, your ppp connection, and a default route
through your ppp connection. That way traffic for say www.yahoo.com will go
through your ppp interface, even though no specific route for it exists.
HTH
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS IP Question
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:09:01 -0400
Ham Radio OP wrote:
> I think I found my answer//////
>
> With AT&T doing the reverse order for the address, I will need them to
> put my in there with a ptr record. Does this sound right???
>
This is exactly what needs to be done, and part of what a good DNS master
should do.
>
> On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 22:35:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ham Radio OP) wrote:
>
> >Hello all, I am running a DNS server on my system and all is working
> >great, I moved my server to a T-1 connection on someone else's
> >server. All it shows on ALL outgoing connections from my server is
> >the IP address. I need this to show my server name. Someone told me
> >that I had to let someone else other than myself be my DNS master,.
> >Somehow I don't believe this as I had no problem before. Seems to me
> >that the actual owner of my address (AT&T) should just be able to add
> >me to there host file or something. I know this has to be something
> >little here. Can anyone give me a little help here? Thanks. Corey
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with outbound e-mail on 2.2.5
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:03:18 -0400
"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> Since I upgraded my RedHat 5.2 box to the newest
> ppp/kernel/diald/dialmon/etc., my users have been able to do everything
> except send mail. No matter what OS, email client, etc they use, NO
> email will go. They can browse (masq is working), receive e-mail, ftp,
> newsgroups, etc., they just can not send mail. As a test I setup an old
> 486 with the stock RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36) w/ ppp-2-3-5, and everything
> works just fine. I guess one solution is to leave well enough alone, but
> being a computer geek, I'd like to know why the new stuff won't work.
> (Same modem, phone line, ISP, etc.) Any ideas?
>
> --
> Edison Information Technologies
> P.O. Box 554
> Milan, OH 44846-0554
> 419.499.7040
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
You need an mta running. On Stampede/Slackware which I am familiar with
that would be sendmail.
Another possibility is that your ipfw isn't allowing port 25 traffic
through.
HTH
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Printer (Linux + MacOS + HP JetDirect)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:08:40 -0400
We have three different kinds of HP printers at work with JetDirect cards. I set
the IP address of each of them through the printer control panel. Look for an MIO
configuration item in the menu.
HTH.
"Nick B." wrote:
> Thanks Keith for responding, I much appreciate it.
>
> Actually, I had already tried various versions of arp commands to alter my
> ARP table. None of this worked. But again, I believe that the problem I have
> (including for arp) is that I don't know the current IP address assigned to
> the JetDirect's hardware address.
>
> I suspect that there must be a way to query the LAN and have all interfaces
> respond with their hardware addresses and their corresponding assigned IP
> addresses, but I couldn't figure out how to do this. As you can tell, I'm a
> novice Linux user.
>
> I also couldn't get the MacOS to tell me the IP address that was assigned to
> the HP JetDirect card in the printer. I did find out from the printer what it
> thinks is its Appletalk name, but this name did not work in various attempts
> at placing it in /etc/printcap or /etc/hosts. Again, the reason why none of
> this worked (nor should it have worked) is, I believe, because there is
> nothing on the Linux side that "ties" the known printer hardware address to
> the known printer Appletalk name. In other words, I need the IP address in
> order to make this connection in the Linux world.
>
> I think what I want is a form of RARP, that is, I want the printer to reply
> to a RARP query using the hardware address by returning its assigned IP
> address. I don't know how to do this however. Is there such a thing as a
> "harware ping", i.e,, a ping-like command where you specify the hardware
> address and it returns the NIC's IP address? Sorry for my naivete.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nick B.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Keller) wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > You actually have to assign the IP address to the printer yourself,
> > generally. (Well, you could configure DHCP to do it, but that's
> > more work than I'd be willing to put in.) You should be able to
> > input the IP address from the printer's control panel, or, if
> > you have the HP JetDirect software for Mac (is it even made for
> > Macs?), you can use it to assign an IP. If you're using IP
> > masquerading with so-called illegal IP addresses, then you can
> > simply pick an unused IP in your subnet. If you're using official
> > IPs, it might be more complicated, but the principle is the same.
> >
> > You may also be able to get away with an arp entry. My network
> > print server works with a command like so:
> >
> > arp -s printer.domain.net FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> >
> > where the FF's are the actual hardware address of the device.
> > My man pages don't specify whether you can substitute an IP
> > address for the domain name, but I'd guess that you can. I'm
> > also not clear whether the JetDirect card will like this ARP
> > entry.
> >
> > Finally, you'll probably need to manipulate your printcap
> > file a little bit more to accomodate an HP printer. Sadly,
> > I don't remember what was funny about them, or even where
> > to find docs on what to do. They're out there somewhere,
> > though, I'm sure.
> >
> > -- Keith
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > In article <7el3r1$jf8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Nick B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi:
> >
> > > I was hoping to use lpr to remotely print to the HP LaserJet from any of the
> > > Linux boxes. But I believe that I need some information that I'm having a
> > > difficult time finding. In particular, I think I would need to know/assign
> an
> > > IP address to the JetDirect card in the LaserJet printer in order to set it
> > > up as a remote printer for lpr. I can print the SELF TEST page on the
> printer
> > > which identifies the ethernet card's hardware address, and even gives the
> > > Appletalk Name (LaserJet 4) for the printer, but it does not give any
> > > assigned IP address. I've tried various permutations of the Appletalk
> > > Name/HW_ADDR in the /etc/printcap and assignments in the /etc/hosts files,
> > > but none seem to allow remote printing.
> > >
> > > I've tried to see if I can get the Mac to identify the assigned IP address
> of
> > > the printer, but I couldn't figure out how to do this. Is there some way,
> > > under Linux, to query the LAN and read both the hardware addresses and the
> > > assigned IP addresses? Is there a way to have Linux assign an IP to the
> > > JetDirect ethernet card in the printer which will still work for the Mac?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > > Nick Bourbaki
> > >
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> >
>
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux network security issues? Re: qmail hell
Date: 10 Apr 1999 16:15:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William R. Mattil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve Vertigan wrote:
>
>> if you care at all about security you don't run sendmail.
>
>This is paranoia. While sendmail has had security issues so have loads of other
>applications. In fact, Linux itself has had many security problems as has NT
>workstation and server.
I've heard that from time to time, but the details are always lacking.
Looking for my distribution in the Bugtraq archive, I see a broken ftpd.
Rootshell advises us to remove suidexec, but it's only a local hole,
not a vulnerability from the network.
That's it for this year. Nothing on Qmail at all.
(I don't use Sendmail because it's too complicated. Complicated programs
are easier to misconfigure. Bugtraq is full of Sendmail issues.)
Is there some other list I should be looking at?
I'd appreciate it if someone who is up on the "many security problems"
of "Linux itself" would post a list of the biggest security holes
found over, say, the last year, so we all know what to upgrade.
Cameron
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From: Larry Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509B and 3c905B in same box
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:26:12 -0400
oops, also wanted to suggest you remove the options line in /etc/conf.modules for
the
3c509B, assuming the card is set to factory defaults (irq=10 and io=0x300). For
some reason, I found the 3c509B produces an initialization error if you specify the
IO address (e.g. can't find symbol, blah, blah), although the irq option works OK
(mine is set to irq=5). Perhaps others have not had this difficulty, but dropping
the IO option solved my problem with this card.
As far as I know, you should not have an entry in lilo.conf, unless you have
compiled the 3c509B driver into the kernel. Since you appear to loading the driver
as module, the setup belongs in conf.modules only.
M wrote:
> I wish to add 2nd NIC 3c509 to my Linux box which is using 3c905b.
> Step1. edit /etc/lilo.conf, added...
> append="ether=0,0,eth1"
> Step2. edit /etc/conf.modules, so it is...
> alias eth0 3c59x
> options eth0 full_duplex=1 options=20
> alias eth1 3c509
> options io=0x300 irq=10
>
> There is still no any message about 3c509 on bootup messages.
> What file do I miss to edit?
> Thanks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Larry Benoit wrote:
>
> > Chip Roberson wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just installed Linux a few days ago in my Dell with the 3Com
> > > 3c509B-TPO (ISA) card. Everything
> > > worked well. Today, I installed a second nic, a 3Com 3c905B-TX (PCI).
> > > I just learned that this is
> > > not a "Tier 1 supported hardware" device according to RedHat. (Why?)
> > >
> > > There is no specific module for the 3c905B in the kerneld configurator,
> > > so I have a few questions.
> > >
> > > 1) Will the 509 and 905 use the same driver? I don't think so, but want
> > > to double check.
> > >
> > > 2) If so, will I have to recompile the kernel? Why, and what would I
> > > have to do to make sure the
> > > NICs are supported properly?
> > >
> > > 3) If not, where do I get the driver module for the 905? Does the
> > > 3c59x.c driver at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> > > support the
> > > 905B? I wasn't sure if that one driver supports all the NICs.
> > >
> > > 4) Where can I find steps to installing the new driver?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chip
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Chip Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Linux Administrator
> > > Home
> > > Office
> > >
> > > Chip Roberson
> > > Linux Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Home
> > > Office
> > > Petaluma Netscape Conference Address
> > > CA
> > > USA
> > > Additional Information:
> > > Last Name Roberson
> > > First Name Chip
> > > Version 2.1
> >
> > For what it is worth, I have a Dell XPS R450 running Redhat 5.2 with a 3c509B
> > and 3c905B-TX Before setting up the
> > cards, I upgraded to the 2.0.36 kernel which has improved support for the
> > 3c905B-TX. I turned off PNP for the 3c509B, using the 3Com utility that is
> > included with the driver disks.
> >
> > You should be able to setup the cards in /etc/conf.modules as follows:
> >
> > alias eth0 3c59x
> > alias eth1 3c509
> >
> > This configuration assumes you are using the default irq and memory. I am
> > not sure whether autodetection might affect the order by which the kernel
> > recognizes and configures eth0 and eth1 -- but that this setup works, loading
> > the 3c905B-TX first on eth0. Also, note that a different driver is specified
> > for each card -- the 3c509B uses the 3c509 driver and the 3c905B-TX uses the
> > 3c59x driver. My actual setup is a little different because I have
> > configured the 3c509B to use irq 5. Of course, you also need to configure
> > the IP address, routing, DNS, etc. for each interface using Redhat Control
> > Panel or by editing configuration files directly.
> >
> > Also, see this HOWTO for detailed help:
> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/multicard.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Renaud)
Subject: 100baseT 3Com adapter problem - works fine under Windoz but not Linux
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:17:26 GMT
Can anyone help?
I have the following setup:
- 3Com 3c905 B 100Mb/s ethernet adapter
- Newly installed RedHat Linux 5.2
- 4 port 100Mb/s RJ45 hub
- staright and twisted network cables
- all network parameters configured properly (TCP/IP, fixed IP
address, gateway, DNS etc)
The card works properly under win98
The card works properly in 100Mb/s mode when I connect it to another
PC using a crossed twisted pairs cable
but the card does not work when I connect it (with a straight twisted
pairs cable) to my 100Mb/s (only) hub.
It seems that the cards sets itself to 10Mb/s (which does not work on
my hub) when I connect it to it.
Cables have been tested and are fine, the hub always worked and still
does, but I cannot get the damned 100Mb/s link led on when I connect
to it.
I don't know if I make any sense, but if someone knows how to force
the card to put itself in 100Mb/s mode at boot, then I will be happy.
Thank you,
Renaud.
==================
report from ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:2A:4B:A6
inet addr:128.1.0.6 Bcast:128.1.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf600
==================
exerpt from dmseg:
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xf600, 00:10:4b:2a:4b:a6,
IRQ 9
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, NWay Autonegotiation interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786b.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
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From: John Murtari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: RH5.2, Solaris and NFS
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:25:03 -0400
Yes, we are experiencing NFS "hangs" between Solaris and Linux, fairly
busy systems we get problems 2-3 times/day will loss of one of the
mountd's.
Finally, we just put a monitor in place to make sure NFS daemons hadn't
stopped running, and to restart them if they had. Have seen no
corruption,
but most of our stuff is READ only.
Have seen other people noticing this, but have not seen any comments
from
anyone "in the know" from either Linux Folks or Sun on a solution.
John Murtari
http://www.thebook.com/
> 1. Rebuilt nfs-server-2.2beta40.
>
> 2. upgraded to kernel 2.2.5 with latest nfs-server-2.2beta40.
>
> 3. Contacted SunSolve. They had one ticket that referenced this
> product. The customer closed it with mention of upgrading
> Linux to 2.1.x kernel. Unable to find out who the customer is.
>
> 4. Calling for help from anybody.
>
> Please also send any replies directly.
>
> Marv Nachatelo
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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John
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