Linux-Networking Digest #713, Volume #9          Wed, 30 Dec 98 07:13:46 EST

Contents:
  Linux PPPD considerably slower than in Windoze (Gareth Owen)
  Unable to mount NFS file system from LINUX to AIX 4.2 (Eusebio Stucchi)
  need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN ("Jeff")
  ifconfig and do_ioctl (Eitan Rabin)
  Re: fetchmail/sendmail problem (No Spam)
  ###  client relay  #### ("VorDOM")
  Re: HELP: Win98->Linux via null modem (RJ Harrison)
  Q: NE2000 or not on Linux? (danpel)
  Re: newbie question (first of many) (RJ Harrison)
  Re: need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN ("Jeff")
  Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am 
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (Marc)
  Re: Please Help on @Home SEtup.... (Stuart R. Fuller)
  Please Help on @Home SEtup.... ("News Account")
  Re: FTP Server Accounts (Remigiusz Samborski)
  Re: What is IPX for ? (George Dau)
  Re: Redhat 5.1 @home...  SIOCADDRT  uh huh? (WB)
  Re: RedHat 5.1 PPP/Shell account server problems (WB)
  Re: @home cable modem, no receive (Jeff Hall)

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From: Gareth Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux PPPD considerably slower than in Windoze
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:41:15 +0000

In windoze from the same site, same time, I get 5.12kps, and when I
change back to Linux I get a measly 1.7kps.
This is on a 56k, and I had the same problem with my old 33.6..
I have tried adding the following parameters
mru 1500 mtu 1500 asycmap 0
But they did not help, I have also tried using 2000 instead of 1500
I would really appreciate some help on this because I don't want to go
back to windoze because it has taken me
6months to get Linux going and using it as an alternative, and going
back to windoze will most definately kill me..

Could you e-mail your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please because I do not
get much time to read newsgroups, especially newsgroups with
so many messages in.
I have tried using the latest pppd in the development kernels but those
just keep disconnecting me from the net, so I am back using the one in
2.0.36 which disconnects me occasionally, but its more usable..

Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Gaz


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From: Eusebio Stucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to mount NFS file system from LINUX to AIX 4.2
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:35:26 +0100

Hi all,

I tried to mount an NFS file system  from a Linux server
(slackware 3.6, kernel 2.0.35, hostname aphrodite, file system name:
/geoaphro)
to an ibm RS/6000 running AIX 4.2,
but the mount command
fails with the following message:

[ 27 ] ibm:/> mount aphrodite:/geoaphro /mnt
mount: giving up on:
        aphrodite:/geoaphro
vmount: Permission denied

I have no problem mounting the same
file system on an ibm RS/6000 with AIX 3.2.5
on an another PC with Linux or a sun with Solaris 2.6
(also if in the last case the following warning is issued:
WARNING: No network locking on aphrodite:/geoaphro: contact admin to
install server change).

Can someone help me?

Thank in advance

Eusebio



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Dip. Scienze della Terra - Sez. Geofisica
Universita' degli studi di Milano
Via L. Cicognara 7,
I-20129 Milano (Italy)

ph. (+39_2) 23698.401
fax (+39_2) 7490588
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:14:43 -0500

ok just set up redhat 5.2 i first set up my 28.8 modem to gain net access,
used the linuxconf to do this ( as it was written in the instalation guide)
it dialed and connected, and i was able to ping and surf. amazed after
reading all the problems others had in 2 min on the net. well so now i want
to connect my isdn up, i just changed the init string for my modem for
multilink and it dial both lines and seeed to be connected, but no ping.
called my isp they were of help as much as posible but havent been able to
resolve this problem. Fro the isp they say i was connected had a ip# but was
unable to ping me.

My set up: redhat 5.2 . fresh install, 3comImpactIQ

thanks



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From: Eitan Rabin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ifconfig and do_ioctl
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:00:42 +0000

I'm trying to implement a net device driver.
Can  anybody tell me how ifconfig changes the parameter of the device.
And how dev->do_ioctl receives parameters from it, at which parameter.

Thanks in Advanced


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Spam)
Subject: Re: fetchmail/sendmail problem
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:35:14 GMT

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:28:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darryl
Tang) wrote:

>I am trying to configure fetchmail to download my mail from my isp via
>modem and put it into my mailbox.  As I understand it, after fetchmail
>downloads the mail, it invokes sendmail to send it to my local mailbox. 
>I'm at the point where fetchmail can pull the mail, but sendmail is having
>trouble doing its job.
>
>I get the following error in my /var/log/syslog:
>
>SYSERR(bin):  Cannot exec /bin/mail.local:  No such file or directory

This sounds suspiciously like some changes have been made to your
setup.  The reference to /bin/mail.local reminds of the setup for
qmail where they make a reference to /usr/libexec/mail.local as being
an alternative path for the mail binary.

Check your sendmail config for correct pathing or you could copy the
/bin/mail.local file to /bin/mail and see what happens.

Scott.

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From: "VorDOM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ###  client relay  ####
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:07:45 +0800

Hello Anyone,

I need help for the past few week I ain't get no responces. I have my mail
server running and the problem how to enable my client to access my mail
server - get and recieve email.
I know it by editing /etc/mail/relay-domians but how and what is the format.
My current
relay-domain looks like this:
[145.21.132.123]

this allow allow one client access olny.

Please help...

Suthan



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From: RJ Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Win98->Linux via null modem
Date: 30 Dec 1998 10:41:24 GMT

Do you have ipx configured on the 98 machine and does the kernel you're
using on the linux box have ipx support?

Todd Milligan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>     I have a Compaq presario(yuck) desktop set up
> with Red Hat 5.1and my wife has a Presario 1235
> laptop with Win 98.  I have purchased a null modem
> cable so that we can use SAMBA to share disk
> space/printers on the desktop linux machine.
> 
>       This is what I have done so far:
>            1) Configured SAMBA on the Linux machine
>            2) Configured the Direct cable connection
>                      on Win 98 laptop
>            3) Changed the Win98 registry to use
>                          non-encripted passwords
>            4) Connected the cable.
> 
> I realize that I must have left out a step somewhere
> because the two computers do not communicate.
> 
>      -Do I need to set up mgetty or some other
>                  serial communication service?
>      -Does SAMBA need to be configured differently
>                   when being used over a null modem
>                   connection?
>      -What specifically have other people done
>                   to get this type of configuration working?   I
>                   have looked at man pages and am willing
>                   to look at more, but I'm still a linux novice
>                   and would appreciate any explict instructions
>                   people have to offer.
> 
> My biggest Thanks go out to anyone who can help
> me with this.  I'm still trying to prove the worth of a
> Linux network to my wife and this could go a long
> way - if I can get it working.
> 
> Feel free to mail me directly or post to the group.
> I will gladly provide config files, etc. upon request.
> 
> Thank you,
>     Todd Milligan

-- 
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are
naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded
rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment
by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." 
  -- Justice Louis D.Brandeis,
     dissenting, Olmstead v. United States,
     277 U.S. 479 (1928) 

"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of
the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and
customs of the people 
under the pretext of progress."
   - Benjamin Disraeli

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From: danpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: NE2000 or not on Linux?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:40:56 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi,

I'am going to run an ISDN 64kBit connection out of my personal Linux box
but I'm vey much in doubt on which network card to buy.

First of all it should be PCMCIA.

But should it be NE2000 or not? I've seen some d-link card which are
pretty inexpensive, but I have been told that they are NE2000-cards and
therefore have no DMA, and should be polled regularly.

Will this have any effect on my Linux performance?

What I'm looking for I guess is someone who could say: "I've
successfully run Linux with a XXX PCMCIA Ethernet card which is also
cheap" :-)

Anyone for that?

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From: RJ Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question (first of many)
Date: 30 Dec 1998 10:46:24 GMT



nebben wrote:
 
> If a NIC or SCSI card is UNIX compatible, does that mean it will work
> with Linux?

99% of time, yes.  However, there are certain nic's to avoid [some 3com
models for example.]
 
> What is the difference between Unix and Linux?

Linux is unix 'ported' to work on pc hardware [which is different from
'mainframe' hardware.]

> Xwindows and Linux?

Xwindows is a program that runs ON the linux os. [just like windows 95
ran on dos].
 
> Please, be easy on me!

I have... I'm fairly new to this Linux stuff also, but I've picked up a
lot by just reading messages posted to newsgroups.  You get a lot of
info, and you don't get flamed as often by posting the same question
that twenty folks before you did.

Hope it helps,

rjh
 

-- 
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are
naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded
rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment
by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." 
  -- Justice Louis D.Brandeis,
     dissenting, Olmstead v. United States,
     277 U.S. 479 (1928) 

"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of
the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and
customs of the people 
under the pretext of progress."
   - Benjamin Disraeli

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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:38:14 -0500

i dont know if i do have, how would i find out.
i tried the ISDN4Linux, i dl a isdn4k-utils file, was an rpm and tried to
install it but got an error
  failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
  error can not open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm



Andrew Lister wrote in message <76c50a$bbj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <76c2a2$lmp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> to connect my isdn up, i just changed the init string for my modem for
>> multilink and it dial both lines and seeed to be connected, but no ping.
>> called my isp they were of help as much as posible but havent been able
to
>> resolve this problem. Fro the isp they say i was connected had a ip# but
was
>> unable to ping me.
>>
>> My set up: redhat 5.2 . fresh install, 3comImpactIQ
>
>Do you have ISDN support in the kernel?  If not, you will have to
>recompile it.
>
>--
>Andrew Lister     <http://www.xbae.syd.net.au>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Maintainer of the XbaeMatrix widget  -  a public domain table widget



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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but 
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 03:41:42 GMT

www.linuxcentral.com   get GPL version of Red hat,,,(I reccomend the Mandrake
versiuon if tehy have it)  GPL cd costs about three bucks..........

THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote:

> Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
> you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
> and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
> Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
> 32-bit, Linux  won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
> that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
> can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
> but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
> and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
> to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
> install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
> linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
> changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
> it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
> install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
> crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
> until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
> Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
> connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
> have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
> boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
> formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
> machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
> method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
> the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
> obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
> it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
> ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
> installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
> recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
> video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
> drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
> the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
> option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
> message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
> site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
> other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
> bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
> install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
> are to be made during installation?
>
> Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
> past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Please Help on @Home SEtup....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:00:02 GMT

News Account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: 
: I am really out to lunch on this one.  Can someone gimme a walk 
: throught?
:
:     Please Im kinda new but i've done all the reading i can find and i 
: still cant get it to work?

So, given the above information, how much help do you expect to get?  Do you
want people to start from the beginning, like how to plug the @Home cable
modem into the wall?  

Look, if you want help, you have to at least meet people half way.  Start by
posting some more information like:

        - what exactly it is you're trying to do
        - what exactly you've done so far
        - what exactly you've seen (including verbatim error messages)
        - hardware information (note that we don't care what size your monitor
          is)
        - software information (distribution, version, additional software
          loaded, etc.)

        Stu

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Subject: Please Help on @Home SEtup....
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 03:49:09 GMT

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From: Remigiusz Samborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP Server Accounts
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:25:53 GMT

Daniel Goh wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Is there a way, using the FTPD that came with RedHat 5.2, that I can
> make special accounts for my FTP Server that corrisponds to a particular
> directory on the system?
> 
> For example:-
> 
> UserName : ftpuser1
> Directory : /home/ftp/ftpuser1/
> Then everything in that directory is writeable to the user and the user
> sees that directory as a root directory.
> 
> Then another user eg. ftpuser2 gets a different directory.
> 
> I tried reading the man files for ftpaccess, but understood nothing.

I just read the manuals and tried to do this on my RedHat 5.1.
Everything was ok, but ftpd didn't do chroot (and I don't now why). 
Check the questgroup option in ftpaccess manuals.

-- 

______________________________________________________________
                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: What is IPX for ?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 04:22:53 GMT

Tetsuji Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

]Very fundamental question.  What is IPX for?  
 
And more importantly, why should anyone care? 
 
A couple of weeks ago someone was advertising[1] an on-line Unix exam, for free.
I decided to take it, just for fun. There were several exams available, I only
tried the Unix one[2]. To do it, you had to take the Networking exam first. Yes,
someone doing Unix needs to know some networking but this was too much: 
 
o Lots of questions about Appletalk 
o Lots of questions about IPX/SPX 
o Questions about network cables (cable types, capabilites etc) 
 
Yes, great things for a network specialist, but not for a Unix Admin. 
 
Then I got to the Unix Admin exam. Guess what half[3] the questions were about?
- Yep, networking questions. And they weren't even general, some of it referred
to device names that were very vendor-specific. 
 
[1] Yes, spamming, but they were offering a certificate, and all for free. 
[2] Time limited questions, on a modem link, to a busy wan, to a busy site in
another coutry. Most of the 100 seconds/question were spent waiting for the page
to load. 
[3] For big values of "half". 
 

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From: WB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.1 @home...  SIOCADDRT  uh huh?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 04:23:18 GMT

Hi Brad,

Your system is trying to DNS lookup the relevant hosts (which is failing for both
httpd and route apparently). It happens to me all the time if my ISP's DNS goes
out.
Try running route -n, or netstat -rn, so it doesn't do the DNS lookup. You should
then get your routing table. It doesn't sound like the table itself is the problem
though.
The SIOCADDR is messing you up way earlier. Check the output of "ifconfig" to see
if your eth0 device is even configured at all.

There's more to look at, like /etc/resolv.conf to see if your DNS is pointing
to the right place, etc.. but this is your starting point.

Also, regarding the SIOCADDR error. Scan usenet with a search on that
and "linux". You'll get a ton of hits, just scan through the subject lines for
ones
that look similar to yours. I don't remember the various problems that can
cause this, but I know whenever it happened to me I solved it by scanning usenet.
You won't get ANYWHERE unless you resolve it, and see the correct configuration
of your eth device on ifconfig.

Regards,

-- Bill

Brad wrote:

> Folks,
>         I am calling out the those who know a great deal more about networking
> than I do.  I have run across a problem that I can't correct and it's
> driving me nuts.  I want my linux machine back!!!   I have installed
> more than a few linux distributions on my PC over the last two years
> with out any problems up to this point.   I will try and be as brief and
> thorough as possible.
>
> Problem: No outbound Connectivity, I am able to ping my own ip,
> loopback, and broadast address, but nothing else.  Upon boot all the
> hardware seems to be ok.  The PC light on my cable modem lights up, if I
> put the feed into a hub it lights up so I assume the card is working.
>
> My physical connection is good, I can use my windows98 machine on the
> modem and it works fine. This leans to pilot error on the linux install.
> When I boot up now, I see two error messages.  The first is (SIOCADDRT)
> invalid argument.  The second comes up when httpd starts, it tells me
> it's unable to resolve the hostname.  I assume the httpd error will
> clear up once the network is usable again.
>
> I used netconf to supply my networking information as provided to me by
> Cox @home.  (this has always worked in the past, nothing special was
> needed during or after the install)
>
> When I type route the machine just hangs there with two entries and
> never brings out the gateway address with should be 24.0.132.1
> When I invoke Route this is what I see
>
> Destination           Gateway       Genmake flag metric ref useiface
> 24.0.132.0            *         255.255.255.0 U    0     0   0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0             *         255.0.0.0     U    0     0   1 lo
> -------this line hangs and returns nothing----------------------
>
> I am about at my wits end, after running linux for a couple of years
> windows just seems dead and lifeless, but it's the only working machine
> I have at the moment.  I know mail accounts or web hosting is not that
> big of a thing but I will gladly provide either (or any other network
> service that won't get me kicked off @home) for anyone that can give me
> an answer to this.
>
> Many thanks in Advance,
> Brad
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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From: WB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.1 PPP/Shell account server problems
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 04:25:37 GMT

All,

Sorry if my previous post line-wrapped inappropriately. It's the first time
I'm trying
this new version of software to post a message.

-- Bill


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From: Jeff Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home cable modem, no receive
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 05:01:24 GMT

Try resetting your cable modem, I believe the ISP caches your NIC
address.  I think I've been having the same problem, but I haven't
confirmed this yet.

Jasper Janssen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 07:50:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Ok, I've read the HowTos and all that fun stuff...  I configured all
> >my network addresses and I'm 99% sure that I configured them right.
> >According to the howtos, that's all there is to it.  I should be able
> >to hook up my modem and post questions here from my Linux box.
> >However, it just isn't working.
> 
> Are you sure your ISP isn't one of those cable-modem providers that
> _need_ the Ethewrnet card used when installing the thing? They
> sometimes store the MAC address of the ethernet card somewhere, so you
> can't use other cards.
> 
> Jasper

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