Linux-Networking Digest #724, Volume #9 Thu, 31 Dec 98 07:14:35 EST
Contents:
PPP ("Jason Tedor")
Re: make an Internal net (Omegaman)
PPP Problem (Jason E Tedor)
Re: Newbie modem problem ("M. Wijtkamp")
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 HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! ("James
Barley")
Suck/INN Configuration Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Experience with Fireplug's Linux Edge Router ? (Stuart Lynne)
RH5.2 & a Cable Modem (Travis Zimmerman)
Re: How to use Tape Backup ? (No Spam)
Re: Problem setting up homenetwork with 3c509b. (Ville Nummela)
Re: How to set speed on an EtherExpress Pro100+ on RedHat5.2 ? (JunkDTectr)
Re: Debian and EtherExpress 16 (JunkDTectr)
Re: Netscape Plug-in dir? (Melchior de Contades)
Re: Help with automating fetchmail ("Jonas")
Re: Dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected (on-demand), can
it be done? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PPP/CCP problem (James Carlson)
Re: Dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected (Dan H)
Re: Newbie modem problem (Rob Clark)
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From: "Jason Tedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: PPP
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:57:24 -0900
Hello,
Running Linux 2.1.132, ppp2.3.3, with ppp support compiled as a module.
I am having trouble configuring PPP so that it works. Right now I am trying
to establish a manual connection (i.e., trying to connect through minicom,
quitting without resetting the modem and running pppd). I first ran into a
problem where ppp compress/decompress are not being loaded when needed.
>From /var/log/messages
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial
options enabled
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: registered device ppp0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir pppd[509]: ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is
down(100)
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir pppd[509]: Connection terminated.
Dec 29 10:28:23 kashmir pppd[509]: Exit.
Dec 29 10:29:39 kashmir kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
I averted the problem my manually inserting the modules bsd_comp.o and
ppp_deflate.o with insmod. Why isn't kerneld loading them as needed? What
can I do to fix this? But my for my major problem, I get the message
ioct(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100). What is going on here?
Thanks,
Jason
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From: Omegaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make an Internal net
Date: 30 Dec 1998 22:34:39 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Carver) writes:
> I'm not the original poster, but the question is valid and deserves an
> answer. Unfortunately I don't have one. I have, perhaps, a similar
> problem. I don't have a network, just two computers that I'd like to
> network. If everything works perfectly that would be great, but Linux
> isn't exactly plug and play. It would be nice if it were possible to
> just work with one network card and somehow verify whether it's
> working properly or not. Through weeks of testing I've come to believe
> that Linux is flakey on both machines, but it would still be helpful
> if I could isolate one machine at a time for testing.
If you have an available serial port on each machine, pick up a null
modem cable. Pick a class C (private) network address for each
machine -- say 192.168.1.3 & 192.168.1.4. The very last page of the
ppp howto shows the pppd command that needs to be executed on each
machine to initiate the linkup. You can then ftp, telnet, etc at
will between the two machines -- as long as those services are
enabled.
If one of the machines is connected to the Internet, you can install
IP Masquerade (see the mini howto) and use internet resources on
either machine. A serial link is slow, but it is useful and makes for
a good simple learning experiment.
Hope that leads you down a good path.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E Tedor)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP Problem
Date: 30 Dec 1998 22:00:39 GMT
Hello,
Running Linux 2.1.132, ppp2.3.3, with ppp support compiled as a module.
I am having trouble configuring PPP so that it works. Right now I am trying
to establish a manual connection (i.e., trying to connect through minicom,
quitting without resetting the modem and running pppd). I first ran into a
problem where ppp compress/decompress are not being loaded when needed.
>From /var/log/messages
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no
serial options enabled
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Dec 29 10:27:06 kashmir kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir kernel: registered device ppp0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 29 10:28:20 kashmir pppd[509]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir pppd[509]: ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route:
Network is down(100)
Dec 29 10:28:22 kashmir pppd[509]: Connection terminated.
Dec 29 10:28:23 kashmir pppd[509]: Exit.
Dec 29 10:29:39 kashmir kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
I averted the problem my manually inserting the modules bsd_comp.o and
ppp_deflate.o with insmod. Why isn't kerneld loading them as needed? What
can I do to fix this? But my for my major problem, I get the message
ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100). What is going on here?
I understand that this is a socket ioctl to add a route to the routing
table, but I don't understand what is causing it to fail and what I can do
to fix it. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jason
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From: "M. Wijtkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie modem problem
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:18:42 +0100
Nowadays most of the budget type hi-speed modems are WinModems. They use a
piece of Windows. They will not work under plain dos or other OS than Win...
You can test this by rebooting the pc in MS-DOS mode and try a DOS
communicationprogram like Telix or Procomm. It they can access the modem (in
plain dos not in a dos box) they should work using Linux. At least that's my
experience
Daniel Tarsky wrote:
> Rob Clark wrote:
>
> > In article <76e9v6$96d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Tim Hedger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I've recently installed Redhat Linux 5.2 on a machine which also runs
> > >Windows 98.
> > >I have a PnP 33.6 EuroViva modem (the PC itself is a Gateway 2000 P5-133)
> >
> > There is more than one type of EuroViVa modem. The ones that end with
> > LC-? are Lucent chipset modems. These are also Windows-only modems.
> >
> > The modems that end with R-? are Rockwell ACF chipset modems, but I'm not
> > sure there ever was a 33.6R-?
> >
> > Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
> i too have been having the same problem. i am using a Boca 56k PnP Voice Data
> Fax modem on linux 5.1 and get no response either. i have tried reinstalling
> linux several times with no result. i have tried linking /dev/modem to every
> different /dev/cua. and i have even tried nailing down the com port with
> isapnp_serial.
>
> is my modem a windows-only modem, or am i missing something here?
>
> i would prefer an email response, please.. thanks
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James Barley" <[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 HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:37:57 -0800
THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote in message <368ac138.9350398@news>...
>HEY MAN !!! I AIN'T PAYING SH** FOR LINUX !!! AND I WILL CONTINUE
>POSTING FOR HELP UNTIL IT'S DONE !!! SO EITHER YOU HELP OR GET LOST
>AND STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE, FARTFACE !!!
>
Nobody should take this stuff personally,
I'm sure his attitude will change, once he becomes a teenager and matures a
little..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Suck/INN Configuration Problem
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:25:21 GMT
I'm running Debian 2.0 and am using suck/inn to pull a small newsfeed from my
ISP's news server. Fetching articles works fine, posting doesn't.
If I don't include a line in /etc/news/newsfeeds for my remote ISP, nothing
gets posted remotely. If I do include a line in newsfeeds, everything that
gets fetched by suck is reposted by rpost (called from
/usr/sbin/get-news.inn) back to my ISP resulting in my ISP's news server
rejecting them as duplicates.
How do I get inn to stop putting references to every article it receives from
suck (via innxmit) in /var/spool/news/out.going so that rpost won't try to
post it back to my ISP?
Obviously, attempting to repost every article I receive isn't going to make me
any friends at my ISP!
Here's the line from /etc/news/newsfeeds:
news.myisp.com:*,!control,!junk,!local.*/!local::
Any help will be appreciated.
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Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject: Re: Experience with Fireplug's Linux Edge Router ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Lynne)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:49:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Has anyone tried the Linux Edge Router ( http://edge.fireplug.net/ ) ?
>> It sounds like a custom version of the Linux Router Project to firewall
>> a small network from the the internet accessed by DHCP cable or ADSL. It
>> looks simple to use and it does exactly what I want.
>> My questions to any users of the above are:
>> 1) Is it simple to use?
Could be simpler. We're working on it...
>> 2)Is a 486/25 Linux edge Router computer with 12 megs of ram adequate to
>> firewall one pentium Windows computer with a 4 Mbps down / 640kbps up
>> ADSL connection?
Maybe. Try for 16mb of RAM.
>Yes. I use a 486/33 with 16 to do a 640K/272K connection. I used a
>386/40 with 8 before that. The biggest performence change I saw was in
>logins. I rolled my own router software from a slackware 3.4
>distribution.
>
>> 3) Will it hurt my 30ms Quake 2 ping times :-)?
>> Thanks in advance for any info.
Shouldn't add more than a few ms..
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Stuart Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 604-461-7532 <http://edge.fireplug.net>
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From: Travis Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH5.2 & a Cable Modem
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:08:49 -0600
Ok, this is really odd. I have all of the sudden acquired an
intermittent connection while in my Linux partition. I can always ping
the network IP, but not the primary nameserver. After first setting up
the static IP it worked fine, and it continuously works fine in my Win
partition. It has suddenly begun to work on several occasions, but
usually fails after reboot, or just lags me off. When it does manage to
work it is very slow and has a high packet loss. at one point I reset
the modem and it worked. I tried it another time and it did not. At one
point I tried to ping the the primary nameserver and it did not work, I
tried the secondary nameserver and that got through. I then tried the
primary again and that worked. I had made no changes between tries, in
fact, they were done consecutively. If anyone has any ideas or
suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.
T. Zimmerman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Spam)
Subject: Re: How to use Tape Backup ?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:59:12 GMT
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:28:24 -0500, Doug Bryant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been using Linux for a year or so but have never had to use or
>had available a tape backup unit and I am not real sure how to use this
>thing. I played around with bru2000 but the non graphical version says
>license expired. (The version included with 5.2)
>
>I did not care to use the graphical version as I want to run the backups
>at night as a cron job.
<snip>
I use a program called taper to do my backups, both interactive and
unattended via cron. It has a nice text interface and is simplicity
itself to set up to be run unattended.
You can get the latest version from http://www.omen.net.au/~yusuf
which is the home site of the creator. RPM's for Red Hat can be found
at most of the package repositories.
Scott.
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From: Ville Nummela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem setting up homenetwork with 3c509b.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:59:07 +0200
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, E.M. Janssen wrote:
> I tried all the options but nothing seems to work.
> I started the program in the save msdos modus from win95 is this the correct
> way?
No it isn't. You should boot clean, with no config.sys & autoexec.bat.
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| ViGe / gasp inc. | http://www.lut.fi/~vnummela | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| IRC natura alienum est! Periculosum est! Delendum est! |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JunkDTectr)
Subject: Re: How to set speed on an EtherExpress Pro100+ on RedHat5.2 ?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:41:13 GMT
I take it that you have a non-switching, auto-sense hub and the
rest of your net is still 10BT.
Is there a MSDOS setup program w/ the Pro100? It may provide the
means for forcing 10BT.
In article <76ei1e$led$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hello, everyone! I have a Dell 4300 server at work which has a PCI
> EtherExpress Pro100+ installed (not on-board). It is being seen fine and
> comes up (on the hub which has 10/100MBpS speed indicators) as 100MBpS.
> However, we want it to come up at 10MBpS. I am assuming that the driver
> defaults to the highest possible speed. How do I switch it down? Is there
> any way at all? The technician at intel said that there might be a command
> line switch for the driver, but how and where would I set it? The driver
> loads straight from the kernel, not as a module. Please let me know, I am
> eternally grateful to all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JunkDTectr)
Subject: Re: Debian and EtherExpress 16
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:41:14 GMT
You need to use the softset.exe program on the drivers diskette
that came with the EE16 (probably available at Intel WWW) to set
the specific IO and IRQ settings. The 509 using 300/10 doesn't
mean that it picked it up from the 'slot'.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> All,
>
> I have a Debian 2.0.25 machine running fine. When I put a 3-Com 509 in
> and put "3c509.o" in /etc/modules, everything works fine -- eth0 comes
> up with base address 0x300 and IRQ 10. I have full access to the
> Internet, etc. However... when I put in an EtherExpress 16 and put
> "eexpress.o" into /etc/modules (removing the 3Com card and "3c509.o"),
> it complains that it "Failed to register card at 0x0." Knowing just
> enough to be able to mess things up, I figured it needed to be
> explicitly told the base address of 300 (what the other card, when in
> the same slot, picked by default) and IRQ 10. I put
> alias eth0 eexpress
> options eth0 io=0x300 irq=10
> into /etc/conf.modules, but same error. I know the card works -- I've
> had it on a Win98 machine, running beautifully.
>
> Any suggestions will be much appreciated,
> Liz (using my little brother's account)
>
>
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From: Melchior de Contades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Plug-in dir?
Date: 30 Dec 1998 23:34:47 +0100
Roy Prowell III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know where the default Netscape directory is located in Red
> Hat Linux 5.2? I have found .netscape , but I have not been able to
> find the plug-in directory. Or is there some trick for using Netscape
> plug-ins in Linux? If you could please respond to my email address as
> well as the the list. Thanks in advance.
As usual.... :-)
"/usr/lib/netscape/plugins
Greets,
--
Melchior de Contades
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From: "Jonas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with automating fetchmail
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:52:11 +0100
When you delete the M flag (masquerade) from the flags sendmail just relays
the adress you've set in your (the users) mailprogram.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected
(on-demand), can it be done?
Date: 31 Dec 1998 08:51:20 -0000
Chee Choon Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can a Linux dial-up Internet gateway support "dial-up on demand", i.
> e., dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected?
Yes - Use diald
--
Nidge Jones
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From: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: PPP/CCP problem
Date: 31 Dec 1998 06:31:23 -0500
Andrew Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The closest option is -bsdcomp.
> That's all I can find after looking quickly at the ppp-2.2 code.
That doesn't do the same thing as noccp. That just disables Vern's BSD
algorithm; it doesn't disable CCP itself.
> If this doesn't do, then you might
> consider upgrading to ppp-2.3.5.
Yep; or recompile with CCP deliberately commented out.
--
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IronBridge Networks / 55 Hayden Avenue 71.246W Vox: +1 781 372 8132
Lexington MA 02421-7996 / USA 42.423N Fax: +1 781 372 8090
"PPP Design and Debugging" --- http://people.ne.mediaone.net/carlson/ppp
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From: Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:24:03 -0600
Chee Choon Cheng wrote:
>
> Can a Linux dial-up Internet gateway support "dial-up on demand", i.
> e., dial-up automatically when traffic to the Internet is detected?
According to the IP Masquerade HOWTO, yes. Using Diald and it suggests
looking up the "Setting Up Diald for Linux Page" for instructions.
Dan H
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Subject: Re: Newbie modem problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:43:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Tarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i too have been having the same problem. i am using a Boca 56k PnP Voice Data
>Fax modem on linux 5.1 and get no response either. i have tried reinstalling
There is more than one 56K Boca modem as well. Depending on the model
name and number, this may or may not be a Winmodem. Is it a WinStorm,
Tidalwave, or ????
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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