Re: Device detection?

every N tests. I *really* don't like the idea of subjecting the user to two crashes, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Device detection?

need to do? and disk's builtin cache to be flushed, too We're just hanging the bus, not killing the power. The drive will flush itself. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: resolv.conf

/resolv.conf if desired (see the ip-up.local.add and ip-down.local.add files in the scripts directory). I will be adding support for this feature to pppconfig. The pppd man page is, as usual, obsolete and so doesn't mention this feature. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

the way I want. Please advise. Do mean changes in pppconfig? If so send me your ideas and I will consider putting them in pppconfig 2.0 (which will be in perl, unlike 1.2 which is in sh). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Diald and PPP

username ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email

Re: Home Page Design

Pollywog wrote: I believe I already deleted the spam, so I cannot check the headers again to find the origin of the spam. Don't worry about it. The list masters will already have dealt with it. They have resources far beyond what most of us can muster. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: some doubts

of the files as deliberate (it should have created login.{defs,access}.dist). To get the behavior you want you should first purge the old package. This removes all traces of the old package so that when you install the new one dpkg doesn't see anything it thinks it needs to preserve. -- John

Re: The GNU thing

to using them. You can use them but you have to attach the letters GNU/ to your system if you do. Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such thing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: The GNU thing

mine, and it differs from his on this point. He can no more require anyone to label anything 'GNU' than I can forbid them to do so. I repeat: I know of nothing that requires any such thing. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

this particular case, I must conclude that this is not a very common problem. I will consider it, but I don't wnat to bloat pppconfig by trying to cover every possible situation. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you

Re: ppp0

have you tried, and exactly what happened? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email

Re: ppp0

' to change COM4 to IRQ 10 manually after system comes up, but still did not help. pppconfig just sets up the provider files. I suspect your problem lies elsewhere. What does your /var/log/ppp.log look like? What does 'setserial /dev/ttyS3' show? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: ISP Connection

Joop Stakenborg writes: Have a look at your /etc/ppp/options file, uncomment the #debug line ... He needn't do this. pppconfig has already put 'debug' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ISP Connection

/etc/chatscripts/providers, /etc/ppp/peers/providers, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, and the relevant parts of /var/log/ppp.log. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from

Re: xntp3 on dialup - how?

Christian Dysthe writes: How do I best utilize xntp on a dialup box? Could I put something in ppp-up and ppp-down? If this is the case, what? Try the chrony package from unstable. It has all but the most esoteric features of xntp3 and is configured for dialup by default. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

killed his connection near the end of an 8M download. Brian Servis writes: I think the best way is to get a 'line in use indicator' box that plugs into the phone line. or better yet, fix pon so it won't do this. I'll look into it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

is using a different computer with a different modem? I don't really see why your modem going off-hook should have killed his connection. Do you have his modem connected to the phone socket on your modem? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

is not a copyright. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

the serial port. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

I wrote: Not even if the rumor is true. ^^^ Ivan writes: Actually I thinks it's now April 1 where John is as well now. Note the qualifier. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

now is pretty much immune to my wife picking up the phone, but my previous one dropped the connection at the slightest click. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

that it mistakes the carrier for dial tone. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

. It is either defective or misconfigured. Try changing your modem initialization to ATX4 . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

over each other. There is no reason why they should. Pppd locks the serial port. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Kent West writes: But isn't this the case only if the provider (or whatever) file directly references the serial port rather than a symlink like /dev/modem? Which is why such a symlink should never exist. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

no such thing. MAKEDEV, for instance, did not recognize eth0 as a parameter. Not surprising. Therefore, I have no network functionality, and am forced to do all my transfers by floppy. Did you select the appropriate driver when you compiled your kernel? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)

. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

where your script will run by choosing the number appropriately. Again, man update-rc.d. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

be essentially a generalization of update-rc.d. You would pass it a script and some parameters and it would install the script appropriately for the distribution. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Hamish writes: Perhaps your modem is not reporting NO DIALTONE -- make sure you have set ATX4 or so (assuming Rockwell-based modem). Or perhaps it is reporting NO DIAL TONE, in which case you need to put ABORT NO DIAL TONE in your /etc/chatscripts/provider file. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

is that each distribution would provide its own install-rc. The interface would be standard, but the implementation would be entirely up to the distribution. Even if the LSB isn't interested, I think it would be useful to extend update-rc to hide more of the details of the init system. -- John Hasler

Re: Problems with Packard Bell

Stephen Pitts writes: I started installing the standard packages when the CD drive crapped out. How old is the CD drive? I've found that some old drives don't like CD-R's. They will start out reading them ok, but get flaky as they warm up. -- John HaslerThis posting

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

John Leget writes: ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts Actually, the bug is in pppd: it will start ip-down while ip-up is still running. This is fixed in pppd-2.3.6, which is in unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

interrupted and you can be sure that run-parts won't be running for any other reason, killall run-parts -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ip-up for each user?

$USER and have the behavior of the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d depend on the value of $6 . I'd like to start fetchmail if it isn't running already... It won't start if it is running already. In any case, how could it be running already? Do you have multiple modems? -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: ip-up for each user?

it executable. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: ip-up for each user?

Oliver Elphick writes: I presume you could do the same in /etc/ppp/ip-up/something. Make that /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/something. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: email threat

, and jeopardize the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step. While this is certainly objectionable, it is not a threat of violence. Notifying the police is totally unjustified. -- John Hasler

Re: email threat

Ed Slocomb writes: The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. It almost certainly was. Eric has some sort of random sig generator. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

Re: ip-up for each user?

located in postman's home directory, which is named 'postoffice'. This nicely centralizes all the incoming mail stuff without cluttering root's home, and reduces the number of daemons running as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd problems

you tried setting up ppp with pppconfig and using pon and poff? I know you want to use wvdial, but that might give you some diagnostic information. I don't understand why Avery wants you to use 'local'. That turns off use of the modem control lines. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler

Re: where is my kernel source?

does not support ppp when something else entirely is wrong. Did you run pon as root, or as a user? What serial port did you select in pppconfig? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ip-up for each user?

, by pushing everything through one set of mailagent rules I can filter spam, post mailing lists to local newsgroups, etc all in one place. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: poff wont poff

John Leget writes: poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the following /usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . none stopped but poff by itself does work. You're right. There appears to be a bug in poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: poff wont poff

in it. I've already filed a bug report with a patch. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd problems

, but it made no changes. I would not expect it to. This is clearly a pppd problem. My potato partition is running ppp 2.3.6-1 I am also running ppp 2.3.6-1, but I don't see this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd problems

Robbie writes: I had this problem...just touch .ppprc, and everything should be OK. It worked for me, at least. Yes, but you shouldn't have to. It's a bug somewhere. The puzzlement is that I have the same version of pppd as Bob does but I don't have the bug. -- John Hasler

Re: Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

Shaun Lipscombe writes: did you know that pppd itself can act as an on-demand service? But with no filtering. Fine if you don't mind having any packet bring up the link. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP-pam - problem

Christian Dysthe writes: I can not seem to get PPP-pam to install right. Do I need it? No. I have tried to remove it also, but dependency problems prevents me since general PPP seems to be dependant on it. I show ppp as suggesting ppp-pam. What is the error message? -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: pppd doing name lookup during PAP???

successfully if it is trying to start IPCP. You should remove that fourth field in pap-secrets, but I don't think that is your whole problem. Post your provider and log files. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you

Re: PPP-pam - problem

adds to pppd that is of any use to an ordinary dialout user. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

and not use any that aren't perfect. The simplest way to test floppies is to format them. Tarring directly to the device gets you maximum data density, but at a price. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing

Re: pppd problems

to have started when I did an 'apt-get upgrade' using my new slink CD's. Libraries? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PON question. was [Re: Lost PCCard modem]

on? What does setserial say about the modem port? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How do I get rid of dummy PPP

David writes: Could anyone be kind enough to tell this dummy what to do now I'm not sure what you mean by 'dummy ppp', but I suggest that you run pppconfig again. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

Um, which PCI-based modems work with Linux? Multitech is said to sell one. I have no personal knowledge of it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

correctly, on Redhat 5.2 (at least) you do that through an ifconfig option (ifconfig ppp0 window 8000?). Try setting it to 8000. He doesn't remember correctly. The command is 'route', not 'ifconfig'. Try 'route window 8000 ppp0'. And get a new ISP. These guys are losers. -- John Hasler

Re: PPP/Modem prob

be going wrong? Please post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the 'plog' command. Remove your password, of course. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

don't know. However, I consider them losers more for the obvious misconfiguration of their system than for the deficiencies of their support. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

is the remote IP as reported by pppd (run 'plog' to see it). I'm not sure this will solve your problem, though. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I

Re: chat serial port configuration

to the serial port. You don't need to worry about that, though. pppconfig will set it all up. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

Jay Barbee writes: I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup the defaultroute?!?! Do you have an ethernet card installed? pppd won't override an existing default route. -- John Hasler

Re: chat serial port configuration

Ookhoi writes: Maybe you want to try pppd? I believe this works... /usr/sbin/pppd 115200 /dev/ttyS3 connect chat ATZ OK ATDTPhoneISP CONNECT No. You must quote the entire argument to the connect option. Otherwise pppd will get passed everything after 'chat'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

that would make any difference. Besides, if pppd-2.6 and ppd-2.7 are overriding existing defaultroutes, they are buggy. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: lock and ppp options?

it. This as it should be. Does Kppp object to this? If so, it is buggy. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

Now, only root can run pon, even though my users are in the dip group. What are the permissions on /etc/chatscripts, /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp, and /etc/ppp/peers? What is in your /etc/ppp/options file? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

as root, not as cdysthe. Try su -c fetchmail cdysthe This will run the fetchmail command as 'cdysthe'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

doesn't like permissions any more open than 0600 on a .fetchmailrc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: internet

assisted by an operator. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

the directory: drwxr-x--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

/ppp/peers/provider I'm not sure why the search permission is needed on /etc/ppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

MTA. BTW some people may have trouble receiving mail from you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Diald Setup

Russell Rademacher writes: I would appreciate some assistance on getting the Diald working. It seems that some files are missing to make it a complete installation from the debian file. What seems to be missing? I had to edit /etc/diald/options, but everything was present. -- John Hasler

Re: Diald Setup

90 dial-fail-limit 2 died-retry-count 0 include /etc/diald/standard.filter dynamic pppd-options debug noauth user jghasler ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

are done on, not the one in the header. With smail this is done by setting visible_name in /etc/smail/config. I don't use exim, but I'm sure it can be done there as well. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

static ip's? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Diald Setup

that need to be set like host.conf, resolv.conf and others? You should be all set. You do have to have SLIP in your kernel. Is diald running? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

? That is just what I am doing. If I could deliver direct I'd set visible_name to dhh.gt.org and be happy. Using a service such as dhs you can map a hostname (which is free) to your dynamic IP address. How would that help? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

for me. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

address. Nothing you can do about that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:38:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sargent writes: OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any suggestions? I wrote: a) Figure out how to make exim accept

Re: Diald Problems

192.168.0.1 Use 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 for diald. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

nonexecutable. What's the name of your script? You're only allowed to use letters, numbers, dashes and underscores in filenames in the ip-up.d directory Good point. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

it to fix the line length. What's wrong with ISO8859? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: kernel errors with PPP

this immediately. Can you reproduce this? Just try running 'pon'. No need to use apt. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood

Re: #! (was: Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d)

Bruce Sass writes: Jed picks up on #!/bin/sh and starts syntax highlighting, #! /bin/sh results in a plain text editing session. That's a bug in jed. Emacs gets it right. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

RickM writes: Sorry, I don't recognize the author's name. Is this an official Debian initiative? No. It isn't even an unofficial one. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: question

copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of plog. Edit passwords, of course. Do you know for sure that you have the right serial port selected? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what

Re: File Processing: Please Advise

Timothy Hospedales writes: I have afew thousand .jpg files from my scanner and I want to rotate them all and maybe some other things. ... I cant figure out how to make a bash script to do this easily. man xargs. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

Re: File Processing: Please Advise

./Suggestion.sh -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

stay away from PCI modems. Does the type of board slot affect capability or performance? No. Modem data rates are so far below the capacity of the ISA bus that the bus type is irrelevant. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 5ebe

Jim Foltz writes: Does anyone have a clue what this error message means? ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 5ebe It just means a bit got dropped somewhere. Ignore it unless it happens frequently. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No such bug number

problems. File a wishlist bug against the BTS. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: setting dns values

is that it is impolite to to use someone elses nameserver, and because ISP's could start restricting access to internal servers. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Diald Setup

Colin Tree writes: Do I need proxyarp? No. What does it do ? Makes the machine at the other end of the ppp link appear to be on the local ethernet. Useless 99% of the time. I don't know why it is in the distributed /etc/ppp/options. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: pppd can't find Ethernet address for proxy ARP

Pedro writes: Everytime I launch pppd with the pon command I see that the log file reports something like Can't determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP. Edit /etc/ppp/options and comment out the proxyarp option by putting a '#' in front of it. Let me know if this helps. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

Brian Servis writes: I do think it is a kernel issue though since I did not have these problems with 2.0.36. I'm running 2.3.7 with 2.0.36 and I also am not seeing these problems. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8 + Linux 2.2.x?

this happen with minicom as well as with pppd? Any ideas what could cause this or how could this be fixed? Try upgrading pppd to 2.3.7 (that's what is in unstable). -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you

Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd

Madarasz Gergely writes: do you have an option lock to pppd ? it should be in peers/isp or in the options file. It is in the distributed options file. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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