[gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Hatfield
I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save To Disk and when I hit OK I

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with F irefox

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:28:24 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: 1) if you're specifically talking about vtun, it's in Portage, so you don't even necessarily have to download it separately. I'm building a statically linked version for a remote Redhat box to which I only have ssh access

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox

2005-05-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Jim Hatfield schreef: I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save

[gentoo-user] Setting up a route through a point-to-point interface

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
Scenario: using vtun to build a Lan-to-Lan VPN. One end FreeBSD, one end Linux. On the BSD box I can set up a route directly through the tun0 device without having to assign it an IP address, like this: ifconfig tun0 up mtu 1450 -arp route add 192.168.10.0/24 -interface tun0 and it works just

Re: [gentoo-user] Online backups...

2005-05-28 Thread W
to the one remote site that didn't already have a private data link, using net-misc/vtun. The backups are then done using rsync over the tunnelled connection, which makes sure that only changes are transmitted. In practice, running over a 256 kbit connection, we can update the daily changes