Linux-Networking Digest #707, Volume #9 Tue, 29 Dec 98 19:13:40 EST
Contents:
Re: list of ISPs that support Linux? (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: Multiple Ethernet Setup on Sparc with redhat 5.1 (diamondtek)
problem testing out my modem with Kermit ("Stephane et Sophie")
Re: receiving email on linux ("Dr. S. Robert Senay")
Re: Help with automating fetchmail (Allen Wong)
Re: Help with automating fetchmail (Allen Wong)
Re: Unknown messages in DNS log (Mark Constable)
Re: What is IPX for ? ("Michael Torres")
CNet PRO110b NIC driver? (Steen Suder)
Re: two ether cards (David Khait)
Re: Samba:Can't write/create from Win95 (David Pineau)
Re: Networktraffic too high ("Steven Naslund")
Re: smbmount problems (Sam Steingold)
Routing grief... ("Chem-Tel, Inc.")
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
FS HP Jet direct EX plus 3 ("pnoyboy")
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: list of ISPs that support Linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:41:11 -0500
Andres,
Most ISP will not support Linux or non MS OS's as its felt that there is no
money there. But you can connect to them if you setup PPP like the HOWTO
explains. Most ISP have Unix servers and if you ask around the support people
you can usually find someone who's up on Unix. But the HOWTO is fairly good
for getting PPP going so for the most part the vast majority of ISP's are Linux
capable.
Davidk
ODiE wrote:
> On 02 Dec 1998 17:10:50 PST, "Andres M. Hidalgo"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >www.cnchost.com supports linux
>
> i am using concentric and i am getting no support whatsoever for
> linux. when i called their support number i was told by their virtual
> voice that non-windows operating systems are "out of their scope" and
> are not supported. when i emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] i got a
> response saying and i quote: "unfortunately i have no information on
> linux so the information you gave me is useless. if you have other
> questions pleave feel free to contact us." i would not reccomend
> concentric to anyone who will need live help configuring ppp. myself,
> i am in correspondence with quite a few people trying to troubleshoot
> my connection and right now i think it is my modem (though it works
> fine in windows it seems to be lagged in communicating with the linux
> OS). i have contacted my modem manufacturer (boca research) and
> specifically asked them not to respond with the same sort of
> run-around as my isp did. once i get the modem question resolved and
> know that everything i'm doing is correct, if i still can't connect to
> concentric i am through. i might use mindspring since i am told that
> yes that is a very linux friendly isp.
>
> -Jared Johnson
>
> >
> >
> >paul beard wrote:
> >
> >> ISPs having problems or just being ignorant when t comes to Linux dialup
> >> suport seem to be hot topics here: does anyone have a list or want to
> >> help compile a list of Linux-friendly ISPs? I'll host it if needed.
> >>
> >> For my part, MindSpring supports Linux -- ie, has tech support for Linux
> >> users that actually works -- and BellSouth.net doesn't.
> >
> >
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From: diamondtek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.sun.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Multiple Ethernet Setup on Sparc with redhat 5.1
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:07:52 -0600
you should first see what your dmesg output shows do a " dmesg | grep eth "
you should have eth0 and eth1 if the kernel see these devices. The quickest why
to cfg the second eth1 devices is with the " ifconfig eth1 inet a.b.c.d up ",
you could apply this into a start up script under youe /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/.
You stated that you could not activate both interfaces, do you have the
proper infomation enter under the nework start scrips located under /etc and
accuse me I frogot the subdirectory , but I think it is either system or scripts
. Their shoould be two files that covers the ip address, host name, netmask,
default route etc.. .Once you find the directory it should be easy to figure
out.
Hope this help you can also take a look at redhat archive site for more tech
support.
http://archive.redhat.com
hopes this helps.
Mahendra Kumar Modi wrote:
> Dear Linux Gurus,
> I have loaded RedHat Linux 5.1 on my SPARCServer 20, which has two ethernet
> interfaces. When I test from NVRAM, I find both interfaces to be active. The
> address showed in the NVRAM are :
> iommu@f,e0000000/Sbus@f,e0001000/lebuffer@3,40000/le@3,60000 for one
> interface, and
> iommu@f,e0000000/Sbus@f,e0001000/ledma@f,400010/le@3,C00000 for the other
> interface
> It seems One interface is onboard and the other on a SBUS combo SCSI+ENET
> card.
> I am unable to activate both the interfaces. I do not even know the name of
> the interfaces to write them in "conf.module". Any help will be highly
> appreciated. The Redhat official Support was not of any help.
> Pl. cc any response to my email address.
> Mahendra
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stephane et Sophie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem testing out my modem with Kermit
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:55:36 -0800
hi,
I would like to try out my modem using Kermit (6.0)
before configuring the ppp connection with my Redhat 5.1,
as it is suggested in the howto.
I have a modem connected to /dev/ttyS3, but Kermit says
"/dev/ttyS3 is not a terminal device"...
Here is the session:
#kermit
Warning: terminal type unknown: "xterm"
Fullscreen file transfer display disabled.
Executing /etc/kermit/ckermit.ini for UNIX ...
Sorry,
Executing /etc/kermit/ckermit.local.ini ...
Adding system dialing directory /etc/kermit/ckermit.phone ...
Good Afternoon!
C-Kermit 6.0.192, 6 Sep 96 for Linux
Copyright (c) 1985, 1986,
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
default file-transfer mode is TEXT
Tyoe ? or HELP for help.
C-Kermit@localhost> set line /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3 is not a terminal device
Sorry', can't open connection: /dev/ttyS3
Can anybody tells me what goes wrong ?
Also, what about the Warning concerning the terminal type ?
What about the default TEXT mode (and not BINARY as in the example
of the howto) ?
My modem is a "Win cruise V. 90, internal 56K PCI Faxmodem with
VoiceMail and Caller ID". I am not sure if it is a winmodem or not, since
it is not written explecitely, but may it is ? How can I be sure ?
Many thanks for your help.
Sophie
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From: "Dr. S. Robert Senay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: receiving email on linux
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:15:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm setting up a little web site that I will have directly connected to the
> Internet at all times.
> As far as receiving emails is concerned, can anyone point me to FAQs or any
> other info on how mail agents and such things as IMAP/POP tie together?
>
> To give an example, if I decide to setup an IMAP server, does this server
> need sendmail or some other agent to function with the only thing that is
> does being the organisation of mail messages, folders and users (a bit like
> procmail), or is it a self contained package that would be responsible for
> accepting email connections from the outside as well as handling users and
> their folders?
>
> Additionally, as far as security is concerned, my small LAN will be hiding
> behind a firewall. But since mail will have to come in somehow I presume that
> a port has to be left open for it. Is port 25 the only port that I need to
> leave open?
>
> The only security whole I know related to this is people from the outside
> telneting to my mail port and sending emails to others, or somehow sending a
> local file like /etc/passwd to themselves (although I can't think what good
> that would be with a firewall that denies telnet and ftp or anything other
> than DNS queries, port 80 traffic and mail ???).
>
> Can anyone briefly mention other nasty things to keep me up at night?
> :)
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Okay, this is actually fairly simple if you look at it correctly... First off,
if you are running a fairly recent cut of Linux, and there is no reason NOT to
be, then it's simple AND secure to run mail sevices... IMPORTANT question
first: DOES the machine you have running have a name? More to the point a
DOMAIN name that you can get to over the full time connection you speak of?
Keep in mind that an IP address alone WILL NOT WORK, especially if it's a
dialup... Running a server is easy, getting connected and keeping it
connected can be a bit more work ( I should know I'm running a pair of servers
from my home and it can be some work, espcially as one is NT and the other
Linux...
So, if you are running a box that you are connecting to the net using a dialup
ISP connection you need a name, something that will track everytime the
connection comes up since unless you have paid extra for a static IP address,
your IP address WILL CHANGE EVERYTIME the phone line connects... If you are
then running your server in this fashion see the HOWTO on firewalls, and take a
trip to www.tzo.com they provide a service that allows hosting over a dynamic
connection... Basically what TZO does is keep track of where your machine is
anytime it is "up" so that calls to your.domain.com get routed to your box...
In this fashion you'll be able to bring up a host of services like SMTP, POP3,
IMAP, FTP, WEB and so on... As to security, as I said before if you are behind
a firewall, and are running "standard" [not modified] cersions of all of the
above you should be fine... Sendmail, Apache and the other services/protocals
available to you are some of the BEST OUT THERE period... I'm running BOTH an
NT server with everything on it, and a Linux Server with everything on it and
the one I worry about more often than not is the NT box since it doesn't have
the time in the field and the ARMY of developers and operators to constantly
crash test it...
So I hope I covered the most important part of your question, the rest is
cake... Once you have a domain name pointing at all times to your machine,
LinuxConf or Control panel can cover most of the rest easily... Setting up and
running a server is fairly easy and pretty damn secure...
Scott....
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From: Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with automating fetchmail
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:17:34 -0800
Oops, sorry. I didn't read the entire posting before I tried to
answer this one. With fetchmail, you can have different
..fetchmailrc's. Just use the -f switch. For example:
fetchmail -f.fetchmailrc-1
fetchmail-f.fetchmailrc-2
etc.
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From: Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with automating fetchmail
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:11:28 -0800
Jonas,
Here's my .fetchmailrc file with an imaginary username and password,
of course. Also, this is set up for Netcom's pop server.
poll popd.ix.netcom.com proto pop3 user thisisme password mypassword
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From: Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unknown messages in DNS log
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 04:23:12 +1000
Mike wrote:
> Dec 28 15:15:31 MYHOST named[10202]: sysquery: findns error(NXDOMAIN)
> Dec 29 09:42:21 MYHOST named[10202]: sysquery: findns error (SERVFAIL)
I'd like to know what those errors are too !?
> ;directory /etc
Could your problem simply be that named is not finding it's
support files ? The above entry is commented out.
I use a small script and an alias to make things a bit easier
for updating and testing DNS.
# k named ; dlog
alias dlog='tail -f /var/log/daemon.log'
root@arachnoid:~# cat `which k`
#!/bin/sh
#
# k v0.02
#
# kill -HUP a named process, special case for sendmail
#
# Usage: k process_name
#
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] update: 15-Jul-98
if [ "$1" = "sendmail" ]; then
PID=`head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
kill -1 $PID
else
kill -1 `cat /var/run/$1.pid`
fi
--markc
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From: "Michael Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is IPX for ?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:44:25 GMT
IPX is protocol used by Novell's Network Operating System which is commonly
known as Internet Packet eXchange.
Tetsuji Rai wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Very fundamental question. What is IPX for? I have two machines; one
>for myself running mostly Linux and the other for my wife running
>Win98. They are connected by ethernet, and mine is connected to
>Internet via PPP and I use IP masquerading for my wife to use Internet.
>At least for now, we are satisfied with our network environment except
>for speed. So, then, I wonder what IPX is for. I read through
>IPX-HOWTO and got general scheme. As far as I read, it can utilize NCP
>file server/client. But I couldn't find any other enhancement or
>capabilities. And I cannot imagine any good applications mostly for IPX
>except for configuration such as ipx_configure, ipx_internal_net. Many
>people must have made great efforts on IPX, but I don't know what IPX is
>good for.
> So will anybody answer to my simple question?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-Tetsuji Rai
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From: Steen Suder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CNet PRO110b NIC driver?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:50:34 +0100
I just purchased a CNet PRO110b NIC.
With the NIC there was the usual driver disk, but now with a linux dir
on it.
Here there is a readme.txt telling how to make a driver module for Linux
to support this card. Short: it tells me to fetch pro110b.zip (not .exe)
off their site (www.cnet.com.tw), but it can't be found.
The card is ax88140 based.
Can anyone give me directions to the above zip file? ... or do I have
other possibilities to get it running on Linux 2.0.3x (e.g. 2.0.36)?
--
Best regards,
Steen Suder
sysadm kollegie6400.dk
"Don't fear Microsoft; fear the ignorance!"
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From: David Khait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two ether cards
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:24:42 GMT
While I don't know for sure, I think that even 1.2 kernels did. What
you may be having a problem with (if you are) is the fact that kernels,
by default, autoprobe *ONLY ONE CARD*. Try adding the other to lilo,
i.e. first line in /etc/lilo.conf:
append="ether=0,0,eth1"
This will force autoprobing for one more card. There is also a file
which you can edit, but it's not the best way and I forget where it is.
In general, there is a two-ether-card mini-howto out there somewhere.
Try searching altavista for it.
I hope this helps.
Boris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What is the earliest kernel version that supports two or more nic cards?
>
> Thanks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Pineau)
Subject: Re: Samba:Can't write/create from Win95
Date: 29 Dec 1998 18:09:22 GMT
Out of frustration with dealing with a lengthy smb.conf file, I downloaded
webmin from http://www.webmin.com/, a program which promised graphical
control of Samba configuration. This turned out to be a good thing - it
does that and more, making it easy to configure many linux services for a
Windows GUI-spoiled Linux newbie like myself. ;)
My shares were set to writeable = yes. The only thing I changed was
'allow null passwords' = yes, and that seems to be working fine. Perhaps
I wasn't being properly authenticated. (?)
Thanks for the help.
David.
Dan Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > I can view my Linux shares with Windows Explorer, but I can't make
: > directories or copy files to them. Arrrrgh!
: Are the writable lines in you shares set to "yes"?
: If so, maybe post your smb.conf file.
: Dan
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steven Naslund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networktraffic too high
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:16:27 -0600
Yes, it is possible if the Linux box is set up with two NICs and configured
as a router. I do think though that your performance would be much improved
if you got a dedicated router to handle that much traffic. You could also
cut down on the traffic by using a network switch instead of a hub. By the
way 80% traffic is much too high for an ethernet based network. For
ethernet to run without too many colisions your target should not be much
more than 40% average traffic. I would put a multiport router in each
building feeding ethernet switches on each floor ( or couple of floors ).
You have to potential for a major network failure here due to a
malfunctioning NIC or hub because you are in one broadcast domain. A router
will protect each ethernet network from any other. Hope this helps.
Steven Naslund
rks wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>If this is your real network, you really need a lot of hubs! One for each
>work floor
>to start with. It is possible to use a linux server to separate the
>testlab from the rest.
>The testlab side will need another net, or you will have to use
>subnetting.
>You can use the private ip-range for example. (192.168.*.*)
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a solution for the very high traffic rate on our
>> network. Currently the network load is 80% or higher. I don't think
>> that this is very normal. What can I do about it ?
>> Normally our network must be segmented, but the network dudes are too
>> lazy.
>> This is our situation (simplified) now :
>>
>> +-----+
>> + HUB +
>> +--+--+
>> +
>> +---------------+---------------+
>> + + +
>> +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+
>> + PC A + + PC B + + ... +
>> +-------+ +-+-----+ +-------+
>>
>> The real situation is with +/- 800 PCs, in 3 buildings and 10 floors.
>>
>> I looking for a something to seperate our testlab from the rest of the
>> network, but we need the same IPs as the rest of the network. The
>> network traffic that we generate must not be visible on the rest of
>> the network.
>>
>> Is this posible ? Is this possible with a Linux machine and 2 NICS ?
>>
>> Any suggestions are welcome at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (private)
>> and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (office)
>> I can't read newsgroups at my office.
>
>
>
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From: Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount problems
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:07:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> In message <76apon$jgk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> On the subject of "Re: smbmount problems"
>>>> Sent on 29 Dec 1998 14:42:31 GMT
>>>> Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> > >> >> when I try to mount it to a valid mount point /var/log/massages tells
>> > >> >> me smbmount need mount version 6, I have searched am not able to find
>> > >> >> a version of mount greater than 2.4a.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > More seriously, though, I'm currently using mount v2.7l; the official
>> > >> > location for getting mount (from the kernel's Changes file) is
>> > >> > ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/util/mount/.
>> > >> Which kernel do you run? I have the same problem as Scott, but only
>> > >> with a 2.1.x kernel. With 2.0.x everything works fine. I recompiled
>> > >> samba, smbfs and mount (2.8a) against 2.1.x includes, but that didn't
>> > >> help.
>> > you need samba pre 2 (beta4?)
>> > note also that command line format has changed:
>>
>> > smbmount //server/path password -U user -c 'mount /mnt/dir';
>>
>> I'm not sure what's going on with smbmount (have you made sure you
>> have smb filesystems compiled into your kernel, though?), but
>> smbmount is completely separate from samba. I can kill my smbd and
>> nmbd and smbmount still works perfectly.
of course.
smbclient is a user program, part of the samba package, available from
ftp.samba.org. if you want to mount smb shares while booting a 2.1.*
kernel, you will have to run samba 2 beta4 (or whatever beta is there).
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.goems.com/~sds) running RedHat5.2 GNU/Linux
Micros**t is not the answer. Micros**t is a question, and the answer is Linux,
(http://www.linux.org) the choice of the GNU (http://www.gnu.org) generation.
The only thing worse than X Windows: (X Windows) - X
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From: "Chem-Tel, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing grief...
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:28:30 -0500
Second try....here goes
Cisco 2501 (x.x.116.189) --->Internet (Can't ping from any machine on
the network)
Linux Box NIC #1(x.x.116.190) ---> eth0 (Connected directly to the
router) Can NOT ping from anywhere
"" NIC #2(x.x.116.188) ---> eth1 (Connected to the LAN Hub)
Can ping from anywhere on network
I have issued these commands:
route add -net x.x.116.160 netmask 255.255.255.224 dev eth1
route add -host x.x.116.189 dev eth0
route add default gw x.x.116.189 dev eth0
ipfwadm -F -p accept
I have retrieved BRCFG and when attempted to run I get:
ioctl(SIOCGIFBR) failed :package not installed
I did not think it was a package (no *.rpm extension)
What am I forgetting?
TIA Christian Pedder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 29 Dec 1998 23:38:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:58:36 -0500, Troutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Dont reply to people - reply to the NG. Most of the spammers dont seem
>to be smart enough to remove NOSPAM. Regardless of what Mr. Yohe says.
>My inbound spam is next to nothing with the altered return address.
I take it one step further - an active stance against spam. I filter spam
into a special folder that I go through and send out LARTs at my leisure. I
now receive fewer spams - there are fewer spammers with accounts to spam
from. Or web pages to spam. Or domains that host spammers. 8-D
--
Wildman, the Cuberstalker
Thank you, Microsoft, and please get out of the way.
Fight spam - http://www.cauce.org/
DO NOT SPAM THIS ADDRESS
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Reply-To: "pnoyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "pnoyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS HP Jet direct EX plus 3
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:09:06 GMT
HP print server forsale New in box all drivers but manual is a complete
photocopy .sells for $500 plus .email offers thanks
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