Linux-Misc Digest #559, Volume #26 Sat, 16 Dec 00 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: linux upgrade suggestions????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: --MARK-- in messages log (Bob Martin)
Re: RedHat-6.2 and Intel810 video card?? (rich)
Re: files encrypted eight years ago with the unix crypt(1) command. want in
(Alberto65)
Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another? (devren bennett)
Re: --MARK-- in messages log (Erik Max Francis)
Re: Mandrake upgrade: terrible (Jeffrey Rose)
LCD projector + linux = torture (David Wright)
Re: insmod tulip.o failed on RH 7.0 (Jeffrey Rose)
It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help with MS Telnet into Linux (Chris J/#6)
dependency question (Ken Dozhier)
Re: Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2 (Jeffrey Rose)
Re: MANDRAKE 7.2 (modem problem) (Jeffrey Rose)
Re: RealPlayer and Mandrake 7.1 (Jeffrey Rose)
DEBIAN - NOT! Re: RedHat-6.2 and Intel810 video card?? (Jeffrey Rose)
Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long) ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help with MS Telnet into Linux (DualIP)
Re: LCD projector + linux = torture (DualIP)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux upgrade suggestions?????
Date: 16 Dec 2000 02:58:06 -0800
Where I work, we see intrusion attempts every day from hacked RH6 boxes
on dsl lines like yours.
RH7 is more secure by far out of the box but is an utter imploding
software disaster. Don't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Instead, do the following:
1) switch off your DSL box forthwith.
2) reinstall RH 6.2.
3) get the bastille linux kit & install it. Take the time to understand
what you're doing.
Don't run any of the services you mention unless you have a real
need. For instance, I can't see why you're doing DNS since your DSL
provider is presumably providing it also. You're just offering the world
a vulnerability. If you're going to administer an anonymous ftp server
you're going to have to take some pains to set it up in a secure manner,
though the Bastille kit will help with this i believe (not having done an
anon one myself). If you're doing something gnutella-like, good luck!
You can use firewall software on the linux machine (ipchains or ipfilter) &
NAT to set up the internal LAN for your PCs without buying an external
box though the latter might be worthwhile if your time's worth more than
the nominal expense.
4) Once you've got it locked down, switch the DSL box back on.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: --MARK-- in messages log
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:20:58 GMT
Nigel Sim wrote:
>
> I would like to know what puts the -- MARK -- in my /var/log/messages
> file at 20 minute intervals. I figure it is so you can tell when the
> system stalled or something like that. Anyway I would like to know how
> to control it, ie change the interval or turn it off.
> Thanks
> Nigel
Yes, it's a time stamp. see the -m option for syslogd, man syslogd.
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From: rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat-6.2 and Intel810 video card??
Date: 16 Dec 2000 03:18:35 -0800
There is also dri support for this chipset in xfree86 4.
cf ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/XFree86/4.0.1/RELNOTES
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto65)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.security,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: files encrypted eight years ago with the unix crypt(1) command. want in
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:41:33 GMT
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/cbw.html
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From: devren bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:22:23 -0900
try vmware...that should do it. isn't free though
Igor wrote:
> In DOS, there is a program LOADLIN.EXE, which allows me to start
> an arbitrary version of linux from within DOS.
>
> What I want is to be able to start (switch to) another version
> of kernel from within linux itself. I do not mean just switching
> a kernel at runtime with all apps still running, I understand
> that it is impossible. I would like to just kind of boot to another
> server.
>
> The reason for it is that I have a remote colocated server on which I
> would like to try various kernels. But I want it to boot to a stable
> version of linux. So I cannot just go around and modify lilo.conf all
> the time.
>
> Any idea?
> --
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From: Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: --MARK-- in messages log
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:26:22 -0800
Nigel Sim wrote:
> I would like to know what puts the -- MARK -- in my /var/log/messages
> file at 20 minute intervals. I figure it is so you can tell when the
> system stalled or something like that. Anyway I would like to know how
> to control it, ie change the interval or turn it off.
syslogd is doing it. The -m option changes the mark interval.
man syslogd
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Mandrake upgrade: terrible
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:30:37 +0100
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" wrote:
>
> > I ditched mandrake because this distro can not be upgrade.
> > Each time a new version comes out you have to wipe out
> > everything...upgrades never works 100%.
> > MandrakeUpdate (for updading individual packages via the net)
> > was the last straw when it bombed updating glibc...guess what
> > happens when you have a broken glibc.
>
> The only distro I've seen yet that REALLY DOES clean upgrades is Debian.
> apt-get distupgrade, and all is done ... :-)
<FLAMEPROOF>
Is RH 7's 'update agent' [up2date] an attempt to automate like 'dselect'
or something? Works for me ... at the moment ...
</FLAMEPROOF>
Comments?
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From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: LCD projector + linux = torture
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:17:40 -0800
I have just spent an entire eventing trying to get my external LCD
projector to work with Linux on my laptop. All works fine in text mode
but the LCD projector goes blank and complains "no signal" when X
starts. I have no problems under Windows 2000. I combed the web for a
solution but, although I have seen the question posed numerous times, I
have yet to find a working answer (one suggestion was to "plug the
projector in after X has started" ... sorry, doesn't work). I am very
frustrated; please chime in if you know the solution to this vexing
problem!
Detailed specs are:
Epson 7500C LCD Projector, supports 1024x768
XF86Config says:
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70
Option "extern_disp"
"1024x768" 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806
-hsync -vsync
Maxstation i686 laptop running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with XFree86 3.3
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod tulip.o failed on RH 7.0
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:09:52 +0100
Christopher Wong wrote:
> Your explanation would apply if one is trying to compile the tulip
> driver. However, the tulip.o module already comes correctly precompiled
> with RH7. It looks like the person is having trouble loading an
> already-compiled module. He is not trying to build it.
*Is* he/she? Grep the USENET for all the complaints about *FAILED*
'vanilla' /lib/modules/linux-2.2.16-22/net/tulip.o to work PERIOD! One
is _ME_ ! ;-)
And need we repost RH7's obvious probs?:
> Special instructions for Red Hat 7.0
>
> Red Hat 7.0 has a flawed configuration with their default install. It uses
> the header files from an unreleased 2.3.99 kernel, rather than installing
> the header files from the kernel that is actually running. This was an
> attempt to make user-level binaries independent of the specific kernel
> version, but it makes it impossible to automatically build kernel modules.
>
> A second problem is that 7.0 provides an experimental version of gcc that
> was not intended for public release. The stable version of gcc needed to
> correctly compile the kernel has been renamed to kgcc.
>
> The work-around is to substitute kgcc for gcc and to add
> -I/usr/src/linux/include on the compile command line when compiling by hand.
> The Makefile in the tar file and RPM automatically include this compile
> flag, however they cannot automatically use 'kgcc'.
>
> To repeat: this is a flaw that was introduced with Red Hat 7.0. It is a Red
> Hat configuration problem, not a driver update distribution bug. The symptom
> of this bug is compile error messages such as
>
> tulip.c: In function `tulip_open':
> tulip.c:1437: structure has no member named `tbusy'
> tulip.c:1438: structure has no member named `start'
> ...
Yes, this is a COMPILATION notice ... but WHY? Because the packaged
'tulip.o' that comes from the RH7 install is BROKEN/unusable for many of
us who need it! How can someone 'insmod' a driver that is BUGGY for
their particular device? I offered a workable solution for this person
... which seems only to be fixed with getting a newer tulip.c driver and
compiling, installing, and loading ... etc. IF IT IS A LOADING PROBLEM,
I stand corrected!!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> All I can say concerning the original problem is that this same driver
> works fine for me on Red Hat 7 out of the box. I would suggest doing an
> "insmod tulip" as root to see what the error messages are. I don't think
> the above is enough information to diagnose the problem.
Every so-called tulip card is not what it makes itself out to be!! Thus,
the 'tulip.o' in the vanilla RH7 install will NOT -- *ALWAYS* -- work!
See this snippit from 'Mr. Kernel-ac', Alan Cox after we compared
outputs from /sbin/lspci :
> Subject: Re: A Better Way? [Fwd:Re: Driver location help <- I'm starting to
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:38:04 +0100
> From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: http://ChristForge.SourceForge.net/
> To: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> References: 1
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev
> > 11)
>
> Ho.. your chip doesnt seem to be a lite-on as you said, but a bridgecom. Yet
> another tulip almost clone. From the 0985 I guess thats an ADMtek 985 in
> disguise
Alan was telling me I had a 'Bridgecom' and not a 'Lite-on' as was
expected ... so I was forced to use a newer tulip.c --> tulip.o as
Becker and other's mention.
For context, here is a large part of Alan Cox's response in 'References:
1' above:
<References: 1>
[Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> >
> > bash-2.04$ /sbin/lspci
> > 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:D4:FF:FD
> > inet addr:194.168.151.2 Bcast:194.168.151.31
> > Mask:255.255.255.224
> > EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:65280/167
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:608015 errors:50 dropped:0 overruns:50 frame:0
> > TX packets:603225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:10153
> >
> > 12:41pm up 7 days, 16:06, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.04, 0.01
> >
> > Standard 2.2 kernel tree.
>
> Wow! How did you do THAT? ;-) Look at my mess:
>
>
> jrose$ /sbin/lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E GMCH [Graphics Memory
> Controller Hub] (rev 03)
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E CGC [Chipset
> Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
> 01:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1
> (rev 12)
> 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev
> 11)
>
</References: 1>
Cheers Christopher,
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:28:07 GMT
Hello Folks. I have just realised that I have a major problem.
>From the start, I have to admit that I have been a 'home alone',
'closet' MS Windows guy. Yes, I know'; a terrible affliction to admit
to, but at last I have made my confession. Will I be forgiven for my
sins? I can hear everyone muttering - " Poor misguided fool ".
It all started around 1986 with an IBM PC XT (clone) and since that
time I have grown or developed, if those are the correct words, with
DOS, then Windows, up to the present day, where I can 'wizz about'
with relative ease and correct most day to day problems.
Not being exposed to the business, network environment, I have been
quite happy for Windows to do the dirty work for me and configure most
things for me automatically.
However, now we come to the crunch. Over the last 6 months or so, I
have woken up to the existence of other OS's and in particular Linux.
Reading and following Linux ng's, FAQ's and 'How to's' I realise what
I have been missing and frankly my appauling ignorance of reality.
I feel like the Frog at the bottom of the well, who thinks that the
blue disc above him, is the whole outside world. Now that I have been
exposed to the real world, I recognise just how vast it is.
Due to the fact that I have not been exposed to this environment, most
of the words and terminology may as well be in Swahili or Latin, it is
just over my head. I give below, just some of the types of discussion
that leaves me dizzy and swooning with ignorance.
So now, after this long introduction, we come to the point, it is ME
that needs the upgrade never mind any machine. I am totally out of
date.
Therefore, is anyone aware of a website where I can be taken by the
hand and have explained, in simple english, just what these terms mean
and how they relate to one another. (I can see that this is going to
be a long learning curve).
Is there any one else like me or have I let this terminal illness
progress too far!
Thanks and regards
John T Finnigan
=======================================================
Just some examples of : What the hell are they taking about!
a concurrent, multi-threaded, multi-user interpreter
IP Forwarding (builtin to kernel)
IP Masquerading (builtin to kernel, plus ipmasqadm)
IP Firewall
with 24 megs RAM acting as an masqerading ISDN router
and fileserver for Unix/Win clients
you can use eth0 for the dhcp thing and ppp0 for your dialup
two separate entities two separate ip's
PPP mode or Bridging
a mail client
a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser
a simple configurable finger client
(ipchains or iptables-netfilter)
a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a
large number of options to specify the content of every header of a
RIP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IPv4/IPv6 packet.
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports
every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
RPOP,
APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support
IPv6 and IPSEC.
and so on!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Re: Help with MS Telnet into Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Dec 2000 11:46:11 -0000
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Get a better Telnet client. Seriously, TELNET.EXE is the worst Telnet
>client in existence. PuTTY is a pretty nice one, and it's free.
>TeraTerm is another reasonable choice.
Agreed :) I use Teraterm at work and the only boxes that give me hassle
with it are Solaris boxen as its telnet daemon doesn't understand the
telnet negotiation stuff for terminal size (rows/cols)...
>
>If for some hideous reason you're stuck with TELNET.EXE, then make the
>first thing you do when you connect to the Linux box "export
>TERM=vt100". TELNET.EXE is *almost* capable of handling vt100
>emulation. PuTTY and TeraTerm can do that perfectly, or they can do
>vt220 (colors!) or xterm or linux-console emulation.
>
Also with windows telnet, its best if once you're in you also set the
terminal size correctly:
stty rows 24 (this may need to be 25 ... I can't remember)
stty cols 80
else some programs have a fit (vi, more, less, and anything else really
that needs to know the terminal size).
Chris...
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From: Ken Dozhier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dependency question
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:41:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I recently attempted to install a program and got a dependency error
message listing libc.so.6 (GLIBC 2.0) and libc.so.6 (GLIBC 2.1) as being
needed by the program. I've ran into this dependency error quite a bit.,
in spite of having version 2.0.7 already installed on my system.
My question is: does this mean that I need libc.so.6 from both versions
of GLIBC or just from either 2.0 or 2.1?
TIA
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:16:42 +0100
Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
>
> Sorry, I forgot. I've tried both the web version of the cups
> configuration tool, and printtool, both don't fix things.
Have you checked your print daemon logs? When the print jobs don't get
printed, do you get any response from 'lprm' to possibly dequeue the
jobs?
I assume you have 'GROUP=<same_GROUP_name_as_smb_server>' in smb.conf>?
I am using RH7 at the moment, so with RH's control panel print tool, I
have almost never had a problem configuring local or smb printers. I
once even copied the 'rhs' directory printools from RH to another distro
and had successful printing via smb ... bad that seems a possible
copyright prob with RH? I have no knowledge of 'cups', sorry!
Whatever the case, if you still can't solve the problem, feel free to
email me directly and I will be more than willing to walk with you
through this in more detail ...
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MANDRAKE 7.2 (modem problem)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:21:43 +0100
Daniel Bechard wrote:
>
> Hi!,
>
> I'm a little new at this linux, actually I tried a few distribution
> and Mandrake is the one I like the most.
>
> The installation went ok but my modem does not work (U.S Robotics 56k
> Fax Ext) i get this error message:
> " Could not find the ppp daemon! Make sure that pppd is installed."
Did you notice the request to have ppp(d) support during the
installation? Did you sellect it?
> Also my sound card seems to be detected by Mandrake but there is no
> sound. creative AWE64 (AWE32 compatible)
See: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto/mini/Soundblaster-AWE
BOOKMARK: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto/ <-- this is your
fellow Linux enthusiasts hard work in getting documentation for
questions that have often come up many times in the past.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer and Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:28:32 +0100
Aubrey Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get RealPlayer to work on my Mandrake 7.1 system but get an
> error saying "the installation file found a conflict with the installed
> kde.lnk program". The realplayer rpm does not get installed.
Heh ... just had this happen yesterday! I simply, as root, downloaded
the glibc *rpm from realplayer's site and did a 'rpm -Uvh <name>.rpm
--force' to force past this 'kde.lnk' error message.
> Has anyone else had this problem with installing realplayer in Mdk 7.1 and
> if so did you get it to work and how?
I am using RH7 ... but after copying the /root/.netscape/plugin-list
(make sure you have ~/.netscape/plugin-list &
~/.netscape/plugin-list.BAK files saved before you start copying - just
in case) to my ~/.netscape/ directory and making permissions for that
regular user ... it works like a charm!
Jeff
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From: Jeffrey Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DEBIAN - NOT! Re: RedHat-6.2 and Intel810 video card??
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:32:19 +0100
rich wrote:
>
> There is also dri support for this chipset in xfree86 4.
> cf ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/XFree86/4.0.1/RELNOTES
Tell the DEBIAN project this! I punted Debian potato for now due to
their NOT including, among others, the i810 chipset for successful X
configuration and running ...
I was using the floppy install of the recent 2.2r2 potato, then ftp &
dselect, but no dice ... so I am still with RH7.
Jeff
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:44:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just some examples of : What the hell are they taking about!
The online dictionary of computing might be a help. Sorry but I don't
have a reference.
> a concurrent, multi-threaded, multi-user interpreter
Jargon words. Not sure it makes much sense all in all. What they are
describing is rather unusual!
Concurrent = has the ability to run several threads of control
simultaneously in parallel ("concurrently").
"thread of control" is a CS concept. It is the way a computer
moves through a computer program from line to line. Normal
computers do it in a serial, sequential fashion. "serial" =
only one line being executed at a time (opposite of "concurrent").
"sequential" = one line after the other.
multi-threaded = using, or written to use, more than one thread
of control.
multi-user? Well, you know.
interpreter = a program that executes another program without
compiling it to code aimed at the underlying architecture
first. About ten times slower in execution.
Uh, I guess you were referring to an OS written in java.
> IP Forwarding (builtin to kernel)
Passing incoming packets (IP = Internet Protocol) from one physical or
virtual interface to the other. I.e. "in one ear and out the other".
Usually from one network card to another network card.
> IP Masquerading (builtin to kernel, plus ipmasqadm)
Uh, well, all sorts of things. The trick of changing packets headers
to say they come from IP address A.1, port X, instead of from IP address
A.X. And back again. Done to interface an intranet with the world
through a single IP address assignment.
> IP Firewall
A machine that examines packet headers and performs blocking based on
their source and destination IP addresses, and/or port numbers.
> with 24 megs RAM acting as an masqerading ISDN router
Sigh. ISDN refers to a technique of using a modem with two data lines
and one control line, instead of your ordinary all-in-one phoneline
solution. Those setups are moderately expensive, but high bandwidth.
"router" is a machine that can distribute packets to different physical
interfaces according to where they really need to go, physically. It
works out where they need to go from other sources of info, usually
"routing tables". Those can be set up in various ways. There are lots
of different kinds of router.
> and fileserver for Unix/Win clients
Sorry ... someone else can do the rest.
Peter
> you can use eth0 for the dhcp thing and ppp0 for your dialup
> two separate entities two separate ip's
> PPP mode or Bridging
> a mail client
> a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser
> a simple configurable finger client
> (ipchains or iptables-netfilter)
> a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a
> large number of options to specify the content of every header of a
> RIP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IPv4/IPv6 packet.
> remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
> on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports
> every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
> RPOP,
> APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support
> IPv6 and IPSEC.
> and so on!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: Help with MS Telnet into Linux
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:51:06 GMT
On 16 Dec 2000 03:29:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:30:09 -0000, Rick staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>>I am telnetting from a Windows ME computer into a linux computer on my
>>network, how do I use the edit
>>command to edit a file? I get the file open it what appears to be an
>>editing window, but it there's no cursor, when I move the arrow keys
>>around the column number changes but thats it!
>
>Get a better Telnet client. Seriously, TELNET.EXE is the worst Telnet
>client in existence. PuTTY is a pretty nice one, and it's free.
>TeraTerm is another reasonable choice.
Or check out CRT at
http://www.vandyke.com/
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: LCD projector + linux = torture
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:56:02 GMT
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:17:40 -0800, David Wright
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have just spent an entire eventing trying to get my external LCD
>projector to work with Linux on my laptop. All works fine in text mode
>but the LCD projector goes blank and complains "no signal" when X
>starts. I have no problems under Windows 2000. I combed the web for a
>solution but, although I have seen the question posed numerous times, I
>have yet to find a working answer (one suggestion was to "plug the
>projector in after X has started" ... sorry, doesn't work). I am very
>frustrated; please chime in if you know the solution to this vexing
>problem!
>
Does the LAPTOP produce VGA output in that mode?Hook up a normal VGA
CRT
Does the LCD function when connected to another laptop/desktop with
same 1024x768*Vfreq setting ?
DualIP
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