PPTP possible bug found

2001-02-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
it tries to negotiate "192.168.0.10" as IP address with the remote server, it sends NAK and PPPD dies. I don't know whether this is related or not. 192.168.0.10 is the other (internal LAN) interface on my Linux box. So, this is clearly a step for

ADSL WORKING! (on Linux & Orckit ATUR3)

2001-02-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
gre.c, function pptp_gre_copy(), change "pptp_gre_call_id = call_id" to "pptp_gre_call_id = peer_call_id" 3. Compile and enjoy! Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn. ==-- HAGEL TECHNOLOGIES Haim Gelfenbe

RE: ADSL WORKING! (on Linux & Orckit ATUR3)

2001-02-03 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
lix takes care of #1, and I will talk with Bezeq on Sunday anyway, so I can try to tell them that (I need to cancel my modem replacement :-)) Haim Gelfenbeyn. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsu

RE: IP masquerading and ADSL

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> modem and what ISP? ** > I managed to make it work. I'm connected with Orckit ATUR3 to Barak, using kernel 2.4.1, and the only iptables rule you need to make it work is: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp+ -j MASQUERADE Haim Gelfenbeyn.

RE: IP masquerading and ADSL

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
At least on my Windows 2000 MTU of 1536 was used after connection was opened using the Bezeq dialer... Did you compute the MTU yourself or used some reference? If I understand well, you need to substract from 1500 the size of all headers added by PPTP, corect? Thanks, Haim. > -Original Messa

ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
mputer from the outside. If anybody already solved this problem, please share you solution. I know that mine is not perfect... Thanks, Haim Gelfenbeyn. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
tion, it's enough to down ppp0 and killall pptp. You also need to "rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138" or pptp will complain and won't start next time you try to connect. Haim Gelfenbeyn. > > Haim, > Why does your connection die in the first place? Mine never does. >

RE: ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
script when the ppp session terminates. > This script will kill the old pptp and start a new one .. > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > > > Well, my connection died only once, and I don't think Barak uses any > > kind of idle time limiting (after all, ADSL

RE: ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
tion, it's enough to down ppp0 and killall pptp. You also need to "rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138" or pptp will complain and won't start next time you try to connect. Haim Gelfenbeyn. > > Haim, > Why does your connection die in the first place? Mine never does. >

RE: Checking for bad sectors in a ReiserFS partition

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Shlomo, If the noises you here are "click-click-click" ones, it's possible that there's mismatch between the actual disk geometry and the way Linux sees it. Make sure you configured the disk properly in the BIOS and that the values fdisk reports are correct ones for your disk. Also, the exact mess

RE: power outage - ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
This is apparently a known problem. You need to do the following: rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138 after "killall pptp", or the call manager won't reconnect. I finally checked out my scripts, which re-connect to adsl automagically (numerous disconnects and power outages today), so I'll post link t

Automatic ADSL connection scripts available

2001-02-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
ct on shutdown, re-connection if link is dropped, and logging of all such events via syslog facility. This is just a first version, it works ok for me, but that's all. So please be patient if it doesn't :-) Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn. =

RE: A tool for Perl And C++

2001-02-23 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I have Kylix Preview Release 4 here... While running on remote X server over the 100mbit network (my linux machine is headless), it's fast. Not as fast as Delphi 5 running locally, but fast enough for productive work. As for compiles, I see that it is very very fast, probably much faster then Delp

RE: A tool for Perl And C++

2001-02-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
l out those $1000... Haim. > -Original Message- > From: Oded Arbel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:11 PM > To: Haim Gelfenbeyn > Cc: Linux-IL Mailing list > Subject: RE: A tool for Perl And C++ > > > This is very sad, IMO

Versions of Kylix

2001-02-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
In addition to my other e-mail about Kylix, I'd like to add this information from Borland web site. (http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,26771,00.html) --- QUOTE FROM BORLAND WEB SITE --- THREE KYLIKES. (YES, THAT'S HOW YOU PLURALIZE IT.) Kylix will be delivered in three initial versions

FW: root shell changed.

2001-02-25 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Oops... For some reason I sent my reply to Maxim only, and not to the list. There's no need to reboot to fix such a trivial problem. su has "--shell=SHELL" option, at least on my Linux box. run su --shell=/bin/sh and then edit the password file as you wish. Haim. -Original Message- Fro

RE: where to buy to a suse dist

2001-02-25 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I know that Ligad (importers of ASUS and CompaQ to Israel) have Suse. You can order a computer pre-installed with Suse Linux, partitioned to your taste and your choice of packages, etc. You receive the box with all the documentation of course. They probably can sell you just the software, without

RE: FW: root shell changed.

2001-02-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
for example, i'm using here slackware-current with shadow-19990607 - no > such option.. > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > > > Oops... For some reason I sent my reply to Maxim only, and not > to the list. > > There's no need to reboot to fix s

Strange "server inaccessible" problem

2001-02-28 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
gnose it? 3. My Linux box is headless (Intel server with BIOS support for serial console, it doesn't have keyboard or display adapter). How can I send SysReq or Alt-Control-Del via serial link? Is it at all possible? Best rega

RE: ADSL problem

2001-04-12 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Well, I've seen similar problems actually. This is why I created my ADSL auto-reconnect script. What I saw is that sometimes the connection wasn't established, and I need to re-connect several times until it was up properly. I don't think this is pppd problem, what I saw is that pppd times out and

RE: ADSL problem

2001-04-12 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > If you plan to use ADSL all the time, comment out "idle" parameter > in /etc/ppp/options file. > > Alex Rier | ICQ: 96993521 > CEO| Tel:+972-52-442549 > Breakthrough Ltd. | FAX:+972-3-5364060 > http://www.sysadmin.c

RE: pptp and kernel 2.4.4

2001-04-29 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I've upgraded to 2.4.4 from 2.4.2 today (mainly because of raiserfs fixes), and didn't notice anything wrong with pptp. I did several connects/disconnects, and everything was smooth. In fact, I didn't notice anything wrong with any other application also, although I didn't do any extensive testin

RE: iglu on slashdot

2001-05-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
The attitude of ISPs (and especially Israeli ISPs) drives me absolutely nuts. (maybe because I was burned by it in the past). I won't mention any names here, because they are not important. The story was: 1. I had my site hosted on some ISP. That ISP had in its "service agreement" clause that s

RE: iglu on slashdot

2001-05-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > > > So I think this is Actcom's job to ensure that their > network, routers > > and servers are up to their job, and monitor it 24x7 for possible > > problems. Anything less is incompetence on their sid

RE: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> >The sad fact is that Israeli ISPs do not know how to collocate > equipment properly. The only world class collo in Israel is Med-1s > facility at Tirat Ha Karmel, it's a atomic proof bunker as I > heard, some > 4000-5000 square meters, some gigantic UPSs, generators, etc etc. The > equipm

RE: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, For me, this issue is a little more personal. I'm customer of FixFax (was before they started their spamming), and because of their spam want to move to different service, similar to theirs. FixFax's service is ok, but I'm really enraged by their spamming (received several spam e-mails al

RE: VMWare networking

2001-05-21 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
As far as I remember, no need to enable "ip forwarding" (since packes are not forwarded on IP level, they are bridged on lower ethernet level). However, in VMWare you have an option to have "host-only" or "bridged" networking. You must select "bridged", or your virtual linux box will talk to your

RE: ISP

2001-05-23 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > Several people have already mentioned ISPs liking or not > liking masquarading. > What does that mean? They have no way of finding out (and > should not be > interested) on whether you're connecting one machine to the > Internet, two > machines in your home (using one machine as the gatewa

RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I truly hope Barak will have enough common sense to leave their setup as-is. Because the only solution to the problem you describe here is a firewall. E.g. Barak will simply filter all incoming connections on specific ports. *I* want to retain my freedom to decide what ports are open and what are

RE: IGLU box (was: iglu ftp)

2001-05-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I've seen very similar problems happen on my boxes when run with latest kernels (2.4.3 and 2.4.4). I hope you don't use them, but in case you do, then these problems are probably not hardware-related. I think on at least one box I have it happened because kernel was recompiled with wrong compiler

RE: dot bin files

2001-05-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Afaik you should execute it - it's a self-extracting archive with rpm inside. Haim. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ishai Parasol > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:56 PM > To: Linux - IL Maling List > Subject: dot bin files > > >

RE: taking down adsl connection

2001-06-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Personally I feel against "reboot as troubleshooting tool" for two reasons: 1. Sometimes system that is still useable won't boot at all if you try to reboot it: like root filesystem corruption that kills some of the files needed during the boot process, etc. People who used to the fact that wind

RE: Intresting Strange Address - Not Linux Q

2001-06-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
As you know IP address in just 32-bit number. Many browsers (including NS and IE4+ as far as I know) support both the regilar "number.dot.number..." form and specifying IP as-is (e.g. as 32-bit decimal number). To convert from 32-bit numeric form to the regular one simply convert the number to hex

RE: ADSL problems with 10/100 NICs

2001-06-07 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm certainly NOT a network expert but I'm working right now on network with mixed 100 and 10 mbps stations, connected with a switch and I don't see any problem in such setup. IMHO any decent switch should be able to handle speed differences. At home I had a similar problem which turned out

RE: DNS issue

2001-06-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Miki, I'm not exaclty sure about your case, but here is what I did, and it works: Declare small TTL not for the entire zone, but only for the dynamic PPP interface name. Below is part of my own file, with some entries replaced with xxx and xxx2 for privacy. Note that 30 secs. TTL is declared only

Serial Console Question

2001-06-15 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I (once again) is having problem with serial console: When I go into single-user mode, sh# prompt appears, but it apparently does not receive any input (keyboard appears as being stuck). However, lilo works in serial console, and when in muli-user, I have agetty running on it and can log

Hardware problem

2001-06-15 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm having what I suspect is hardware problem: Symptoms: random crashes, "make clean ; make dep ; make bzImage" never completes from start to end without at least one crash (gcc reports segfault). Question is, how can I make sure this is indeed hardware problem, and how can I find out wha

RE: Bezeq ADSL setup

2001-06-13 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > Just wondering, does anyone know how to return to the "root" > command tree? > If you type 'ip' for example, IIRC you will get a prompt > something like > 10.0.0.138 ip> > Doing a @atm, for example, will change you to the atm > process, but I can't > figure out how to get back to "root"

RE: Serial Console Question

2001-06-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, Thanks, at least I know now that I'm not alone. Meanwhile I just go to "single-user" manually (stop all services, network, etc., and login from serial console). Will take a peek at 2.4.2 - 2.4.3 patch when I have spare time. It's troubling me that I cannot boot into single user. Haim. >

Hardware problem

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm having what I suspect is hardware problem: Symptoms: random crashes, "make clean ; make dep ; make bzImage" never completes from start to end without at least one crash (gcc reports segfault). Question is, how can I make sure this is indeed hardware problem, and how can I find out what

RE: Hardware problem

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > Make sure you have an appropriate ver. of gcc. Look at the > README file of > the kernel sources for the appropriate ver. I used gcc 2.96-81 from RedHat 7.1, which is said to be safe by RH and by SGI, in their howto on XFS. Compiled with kgcc now, will see if it makes things better. The pr

RE: NMI?

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Source of NMI greatly depends on your hardware brand, since NMI is wired differently on many motherboards. In my Intel server box, for example, NMI can be caused by internal "intstrumentation", or diagnostics (like when some fan RPM drops below certain level, or temperature raises). It also has N

RE: question regarding sendmail

2001-06-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, Actually, I've tried to solve this exact problem for some time without much success... The issue with pop3-before-smtp is that most popular Windows e-mail clients first send mail, and only after that poll new mail (I mean Outlook and Eudora). Only Outlook 2002 supports pop3-before-smpt. So

Serial Console problems with 2.4.3+ [FIX]

2001-06-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
g |= CREAD|HUPCL|CLOCAL; tty.c_cc[VINTR] = 3; /* ctrl('c') */ tty.c_cc[VQUIT] = 28; /* ctrl('\\') */ Hope it helped somebody, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [

RE: Samba problem

2001-06-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
AFAIK NT has LPD server... If not in the default configuration, then in their "Unix services for NT". I never tried it, thought. I use other option: I have LPD print server (NOT general use PC, small box with one ethernet and one parallel port). W2K clients have LPD client support build-in, and o

RE: compiling kde2 with gcc 3.0

2001-06-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > anyone follows redhat in-house development and knows what's > up with 2.96 > nowdays? is kgcc still shipped with redhat7.1? > -- Kgcc is still shipped with redhat 7.1, but it's not installed by default. It lives in gcc-compat package, which is used mainly to compile binaried compatible wit

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
there are too many parameters there, and I cannot see any apparent results by changing them. I'm using 2.4.5 kernel. Haim Gelfenbeyn. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dani Arbel > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:14

RE: HomePNA ?

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
far as I know the following is true: older HomePNA 1.0 cards work on Linux (they all use the same AMD chipset), but the newer 2.0 cards don't, since there are no drivers for the chipset (broadcom), and the tech. information about it is not available. Haim Gelfenbeyn. > -Original

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
s see, 64 K @ 600 ms, we will get around 100 Kb/sec = 800 kbps : half of what I can easily get. I defenitely see place for improvement. Haim. > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > > > Hello, > > As far as I understand, changing MTU on a router should not preven

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> so ry to double the window size Umm... Maybe I'm not expressing myself clear. But my question was how do I do exactly that. If I knew, I wouldn't ask. Haim. > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > > > > > > > Haim, > > > The

RE: VM problem: hdd thrash + hang

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I don't think this is VM problem... Look more like misbehaved program running as root which allocates more and more memory .VM starts killing processes when some resource gets scarse (I don't remember if it's CPU time or virtual memory). Maybe you should look at sysstat, it will log CPU and memor

RE: Need recommendations on ADSL providers.

2001-11-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > If you were to set up a long download, or use it for > web hosting, etc, > you would find that over the period of a day, your > DOWNLOAD throughput > would average out to 256kbps. This is pretty good as people > on this list > have said they get closer to 64k. > I had long talks with Actc

RE: Alcatel ADSL modem, Linux and Bezeq ADSL

2001-11-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
en your modem is hacked into. This brings another question: are Alcatel ADSL modems used by Bezeq vulnerable to this exploit, and if they are, is there any patch or updated firmware which can be applied to fix it? I'm using Alcatel modem myself now, but was unable to find any relevant data o

RE: Open a table directly in MySql

2001-11-22 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
> > some of my thought about performance. > Is it really important ? > > Well in out little country I don't think so, lets imagine a > site that get > 5,000,000 ( big site in any meaning - a good site for my > opinion get 100,000 > hits per month) > 5,000,000 hits are equals to 2 queries per s

RE: newer ups howto

2001-12-01 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I'd like to share some personal experience with UPS on Linux. At work we purchased Advice UPS as they claimed that they do support Unix and Linux... As it turned out later, their "support" means that we must buy very expensive replacement serial cable, and the software for Linux. The software is

RE: ADSL keep alive script or virus

2001-12-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
.qmail with a simple perl script... Its server edition replaces qmail-inject and acts server-wide, with wide range of options/rules, etc. It has something similar for sendmail too. In fact, I installed it mainly because I am distracted when mail arrives, and it got to the point where 50% of m

RE: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Windows. It's free, of course. 2. You need a basic skills in Perl. 3. I didn't deal with the issue of Hebrew, since all emails I needed to process were in English. There may be problems I am not aware of. Haim Gelfenbeyn. P.S.: I don't know X mail client I can recommend. > ---

Strange rsync performance problem

2001-12-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
There are workarounds, of course, but I don't want to introduce the additional overhead of smb or any other additional protocol for that matter (like ssh, etc) Thanks in advance, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [

RE: Looking to buy: cat5 cable + a crimping tool + RJ45 (male) connectors?

2002-01-13 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Shaul, Har Tzion street near Central Bus Station in T.A. has a number of a small electronics shops which have everything you need, and at decent prices (comparing to computer shops). You may want to shop there before looking elsewhere. Haim. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: forwarding mails from mailbox to another address..

2002-01-21 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Mutt has command-line options similar to what you need. We even used mutt to send some files as attachments via e-mail in a cgi script. Haim. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:13 PM

Strange DNS or BIND Problem

2002-02-03 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
easonably sure it's not my firewall rules (disabled - same result), or something equally trivial. The system is RedHat 7.2, bind 9.1.3 Thanks in advance, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the wor

RE: Hebrew on Mysql

2002-02-09 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Basically you can write/read Hebrew data in MySQL without any additional server configuration... The only issue is sorting. You may want to do the following: 1. Configure MySQL server to use "Hebrew" as default character set (either on command line or via my.ini) 2. Re-create all indexes if you a

RE: mtu problems?

2002-03-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
1. By no means I'm MTU guru. 2. I cannot give you technical explanation why it's happening. 3. It does happen to me. Here's the story: I'm managing two ADSL connections. One at home, one at work. Both are connected to Actcom, one regular account, one "business". Essentially the same setup (RedHa

Mailing list archiving software?

2002-07-28 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
lf, but I never wrote hebrew-aware software, and never played with encodings and such. So, if someone knows existing solution, even half-working, I'll be much oblidged to hear. Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe,