Linux-Networking Digest #738, Volume #9 Sat, 2 Jan 99 02:13:50 EST
Contents:
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Randal)
Re: Cable Modem - Watch Out! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: netscape and Linux? (Paul Miller)
Linksys Ethernet (L. Patrick Allmond)
Re: Win95 TCP/IP, Netbios and Samba (JoeBlow)
Re: pppd Hangs up when calling IBM.net (Thomas Thyberg)
statistics on ip/aliased interfaces? ("Greg Fausak")
Re: FTP server - my stupidity? (James Bliss)
@home Cable modem ("MBSHartford")
Re: NAT MASQ overhead (Megavolt)
Re: @home Cable modem (Mike Frisch)
pppd routing-vs-proxyarp conflict? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Beginner help-How do I dial up network in LINUX??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Guestgroup's in /etc/ftpaccess (Neil Chambers)
Re: PPP/modem/minicom/not responding ("Dana J. Laude")
free RA Player and dynamic IP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IP router/masq? ("Phillip Mather")
Help with cable modem ("R Tavender")
Minimal BOOT installation for ethernetcard. (Juergen Berger)
SLAPD (Ralph Mazza)
Setting up a proxy server to distribute a cable modem signal
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RSHD authentification (Mr. Pan Lit Wong)
Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 driver anyone? (Eric Jorgensen)
Re: Minimal BOOT installation for ethernetcard. (Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk)
Re: Dynamic IP and stale sockets (J Scott Berg)
Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 (Eric Jorgensen)
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From: Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 22:00:05 -0800
I have my news program set to both email and post to group. I figure that the
person may not check back to the group quickly and I assume that whn a question
is asked, the person asking wants an answer. Sometimes desparately.
I used to use nospam at the front of my return address, then just decided that
I know how to use a delete button. <grin>
Randy
On Fri, 01 Jan 1999, David Steuber wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
>
>-> (edit)
>-> >
>-> > Don't email to people who munge addresses. (edit)
>->
>-> I endorse this sentiment. I frequently reply to questions by
>-> E-mail only to subsequently receive an " undeliverable " message,
>-> even though I try to decipher a "proper" E-mail address.
>
>My feeling is that when a question is asked in a news group, it should
>be answered in a news qroup. With DejaNews being available, it should
>not be an excuse, "I don't get to read this group often." Or
>whatever. Those people who do bother to follow the groups for
>answeres, or use DejaNews can then possible benifit from the answere
>without having to post the same or similar question again.
>
>So, what is the spam situation now? I have been fairly active in
>several news groups, and my trashcan is not receiving much spam. I
>don't think I've seen any for a few weeks. Could the ISPs be finaly
>cracking down?
>
>--
>David Steuber
>http://www.david-steuber.com
>s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
>
>"Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate, private, and publicly owned
>computer systems, infecting them with viruses and stealing materials
>for their own ends. These people, they're, they're terrorists."
>
>-- Secret Service Agent Richard Gill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cable Modem - Watch Out!
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 05:55:39 GMT
Check my FAq page (www.cablemodemhelp.com). It includes a little security
seciton and a portscan page that you may use to check your machine for
services (www.cablemodemhelp.com/portscan.htm).
BTW: cable operators absolutly hate sendmail (and other mail servers) because
of relay problems. Low traffic web servers (private use) are usually ok. Some
operators just would like you to tell them about it.
Johannes.
In article <IDOi2.7653$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"mct1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is some particularly interesting poop, and might be good to know (if
> it,s true).
> Cable Modem suscribers who run on Linux, or any other operation system
> running services should be careful (those suscribers who are issued a static
> IP addres(s)).
>
> For a regular home account, most, if not all CMP's prohibit the use of a
> proxy server, and file/www services. (Including IP_masquerading).
>
> Word is, some of these CMP's are hitting these IP's, looking for services,
> i.e. , web servers, and FTP, and on a regular basis.
>
> Those of "us" using masquerading might want to do a little house cleaning
> before going on line.
>
> Security of your system is another concern, but if anyone has information on
> this, please post.
> Thanks!!
>
>
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From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape and Linux?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:11 GMT
"Brett Ladd." wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
> I've recently installed Debian 2.0 Kernal 2.0.34 (not sure about
> Kernal ver.) and Netscape 4.5. I have also updated X to 3.3.3. My
> question is when I attempt to start up netscape, I receive the following
> message.
>
> netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
>
You'll find this library in the xpm4g package under X11 for the glibc
version of netscape. If you have the libc5 version, get the xpm4.7
package under oldlibs.
--
Paul Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L. Patrick Allmond)
Subject: Linksys Ethernet
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:35 GMT
Anybody have anyexperience getting the Linksys 10M Ethernet card to
work with Linux? I have the Network starter kit (2 10M cards, 1 10M
hub) and the Linksys 3 port 10/100M print server.
** REMOVE NOSPAMs IN THE EMAIL ADDRESS TO REPLY VIA EMAIL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JoeBlow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95
Subject: Re: Win95 TCP/IP, Netbios and Samba
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:49 GMT
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:29:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (< Tell >)
said:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Valentin Abramov) wrote:
>>What's the problem?
>>
>>1) Start Samba as WINS server (add to [global] section line:
>>
>>wins support = yes
>>
>>2) Configure Win95 workstation.
>>
>>1. Open "Network" in control panel and check "Identification", if workgroup is
>>same as described in /etc/smb.conf file
>>2. Open TCP/IP, "WINS configuration", and set there IP address of your Linux
>>box as WINS server.
>>Of cource you have to configure also "domain master", "preferred master" etc
>>in /etc/smb.conf file, but Samba will be visible even with these steps above,
>>and all that is described in Samba doc-s.
>
>
>I wish it was that easy. If I set the IP address for
>the Linux machine in my notebook WINS config box for
>TCP/IP and reboot, when I look in after, the IP has
>gone.! The dialog box is greyed out. .......Beats me.
>
>Cheers
>
>----Terry Burton
A WINS server is not required for browsing to work within a subnet
(unless you have something in between you and the rest of the subnet
that specifically blocks broadcast traffic). Different workgroup
names don't matter either. They should all show up. Look at the
BROWSING.TXT files that comes with the Samba source.
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From: Thomas Thyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd Hangs up when calling IBM.net
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:51 GMT
"DP" == Doug Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DP> Have you checked out http://help.ibm.net/helplib/linuxp.html ?
Yup!
The other ISPs I have the possibility to test work OK, but I never
get any "ppp" respons when trying to call ibm.net...just a Hangup.
/TT
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From: "Greg Fausak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: statistics on ip/aliased interfaces?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:36:02 GMT
I am trying to gather statistics with
snmp. I dumped the tree (with snmpwalk) and
noticed that although I could see each of the
ifconfig'ed ip aliases, there was no transmit/receive
statistics reported with each alias. So, I enter the
command:
/sbin/ifconfig -a
with (edited answer) :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:A4:DD:5E
inet addr:204.0.142.2 Bcast:204.0.142.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22688766 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1874
TX packets:17009003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
collisions:1613412
Interrupt:12 Base address:0x6100
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:A4:DD:5E
inet addr:204.0.142.5 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:A4:DD:5E
inet addr:204.0.142.6 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0:2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:A4:DD:5E
inet addr:204.0.142.7 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
and what I notice is the receive count is equal to the sub-interface
number and the transmit is equal to zero.
I guess this is just the way it is?
Is there any way to gather statistics (primarily send and receive)
on sub-interfaces?
Thanks in advance,
---greg
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From: James Bliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP server - my stupidity?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:36:16 GMT
Thanks, I really feel stupid now. I had read the man pages twice and did not
pick up on this.
Jim
Ashok Aiyar wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:19:44 -0600,
> James Bliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >I then got *REAL SMART* and decided to run ftpshut. This worked real
> >well. Now, even after I reboot the linux box, when I try to ftp into
> >the box I get the messge
> >FTP server shut down
>
> a) View your ftpd configuration file. This is usually
> /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess or /etc/ftpaccess
> b) In this file locate the line that begins with "shutdown". In my
> ftpaccess configuration file this line reads as:
> shutdown /etc/ftpd/shutmsg
> c) Delete the file that shutdown points to -- in my case /etc/ftpd/shutmsg
>
> "man 5 ftpaccess" for an explanation.
>
> Later,
> Ashok
> --
> Ashok Aiyar, Ph.D.
> McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "MBSHartford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: @home Cable modem
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:15 GMT
I've spent the weekend trying to get to the internet via a calbe modem on
Linux. I've downloaded and read the Mini How to on cable modems, and done
the reconfiguration of the 3com ethernet card to an ISA rather than a PnP
modem.
Still, no connection.
Any one know how to do this? Thanks
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From: Megavolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NAT MASQ overhead
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:20 GMT
In any NAT implementation bandwidth isn't really affected... NAT may add
some latency to the connection but nothing noticable
Orrin Sharp Pierson wrote:
> Will mklinux DR3 on a PowerMac 7100/80 serve dynamic MASQ addresses to
> macos/linux/windows clients and will those clients (when only one client
> accesses the net at a time) feel any degradation in quality of access
> (bandwidth lookup time etc)?
>
> ie, does the NAT overhead detract significatly from 56k bandwidth.
>
> Orrin Sharp Pierson
> thanks for the help.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: @home Cable modem
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:21 GMT
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:50:56 GMT, MBSHartford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've spent the weekend trying to get to the internet via a calbe modem on
>Linux. I've downloaded and read the Mini How to on cable modems, and done
>the reconfiguration of the 3com ethernet card to an ISA rather than a PnP
>modem.
>Still, no connection.
You'll have to provide a little more information than "Still, no
connection", if you're looking for help.
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pppd routing-vs-proxyarp conflict?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:36:48 GMT
I'm quite puzzled by an apparent dilemma produced by the use of the
"proxyarp" option of pppd. pppd does 2 things (among others) when it
constructs a ppp link with proxyarp in effect
1) it adds an entry to the routing table referring traffic for its
opposite-ppp-host address to the pppx interface it constructs
2) it puts an entry into its own machine's ARP table for that same
address (along with local machine's ethernet address) PROVIDED that
the address chosen for the opposite host falls in the range of
addresses used by the local network
Well, then there are 2 overlapping route table entries. Suppose the
local network is class C 192.168.1.0. The opposite ppp address must
then be "192.168.1.something" (say 192.168.1.99) in order for ARP to
work (otherwise ARP enters nothing in the ARP table and complains
about it in the log). Now your routing table has:
192.168.1.0 ... eth0
192.168.1.99 ... ppp0
Try to ping from the local ppp host to 192.168.1.99 and the first
entry says send the packet onto the ether-wire while the other says
send the it through the point-to-point instead. (ping in fact just
hangs.)
The seeming choice is, pick an ARP-compatible address and get a route
table conflict, or pick a route-conflict-free address and sacrifice
ARP.
I'm sure I'm missing something. How to I have my cake and eat it too?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Beginner help-How do I dial up network in LINUX???
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:23 GMT
In article <Jr%a2.8067$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"RH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I set up my new install of linux to do something like dial up
> networking does in windows 98. I want the modem to log into my ISP so I can
> surf the web,check mail,etc.
> I have Suse linux 5.3
> Please leave email!
> Thanks
> Rob
Rob, Welcome to Linux! I see you've received a number of other (typical)
replies suggesting that you read all the ppp-related man pages. That IS a
good idea, but you might find the reading more enjoyable while you're
connected (via ppp) to your ISP. To that end, locate a copy of "ezppp".
It's available all over the 'net; but try sunsite.unc.edu; or try an
http://altavista.digital.com search for it. ezppp is a simple application
that'll set up your ppp script in no time at all. Good luck, David
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From: Neil Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Guestgroup's in /etc/ftpaccess
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:36:56 GMT
Nick Ellson wrote:
> I am having difficulty with getting the guestgroup command in ftpaccess
> to work.
>
> I can get the ftp account logged in, and they are propertly restricted
> to the directory I gave in the homedir section of etc/passwd as it says
> in "man ftpaccess" but I still cannot get the ls command to output
> anything.
>
> I tried making a sym-link to /bin/ls, I tried copying both the /bin and
> /lib directories to my home directory of the guest account and even
> setting the permissions wide open. No luck. No errors, and no output.
>
> I can tell that "cd" "get" and "put" are working with CuteFTP if I type
> the manually, but no ls. :I
>
> Can someone help me out?
>
> Nick
Hey bud
this is pretty easy to fix.
lets say the guests home direcotry is /home/guests
cd /home/guests
mkdir bin etc lib
chown root.daemon bin etc lib
cp /home/ftp/bin/* bin
cp /home/ftp/lib/* lib
chmod 111 bin
it will work then........it's your libraries
later
neil
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From: "Dana J. Laude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP/modem/minicom/not responding
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ganesan Thiagarajan wrote:
> >
> > Make sure that ur modem is not a WinModem. It works only in windows.
> >
>
> I am pretty sure it is NOT a WinModem. PnP is more Likely yet i can
> disable it with the modem jumper settings and i am looking at my bios to
> see what irq the modem is set at. If i cant get anywhere with that then
> i will set the jumper settings back and (as I hesitate) see what
> isapnptools can do. Thankx for replying!
Go into your computer bios, (like hitting DEL on booting for
example)
and make sure that your modem is not conflicting with the
bios setting.
For example, if you have your modem setup via jumpers for
COM2, IRQ3
your bios should have COM2 disabled. Also remember that com
ports
under Linux are numbered differently. COM1 under DOS/WIN is
0, COM2
is 1, etc.
Dana
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(US)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: free RA Player and dynamic IP
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:37:02 GMT
Woggy,
I have installed the free RealAudio Player 5.0. When I invoke
the player by klicking a realaudio file on a webpage, then
the realplayer comes up and connects the url. However no data
will be received, the connection brakes up. I guess I need
a proxy to handle my dynamic IP linkage to the ISP, but where do
get the proxy for 5.0 I only can find the 3.x proxy?
Any suggestions?
overeasy
MaR
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From: "Phillip Mather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP router/masq?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:36 GMT
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Help....I'm trying to setup a lab of 16 computer and an linux box to
act as a router.
The linux box has two ip's a real one and 192.168.x.x one. I need to
have the linux box sendalong ip traffic to the real network...how do I
do that and what tools do I use. Is it posibable?
Thanks.....
Phil Mather
Better send me an e-mail, don't monitor news group like I should....NO
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From: "R Tavender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with cable modem
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:37 GMT
Hello! Here's my problem: I will shortly be getting a cable modem hooked
up to a computer which dual-boots linux and windows. Under linux, I think I
could configure IP-masq, to share the connection with the windows machine.
here is the real problem: When I load the windows operating system, instead
of Linux, the other computer on the network will not be able to connect to
the internet.
Is there a program that serves the same function as IP-maquerading,
except for Windows? Any help appreciated.
--Robin Tavender
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Juergen Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Minimal BOOT installation for ethernetcard.
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:37:14 GMT
> Hello,
>
> I have put an ethernet-card (NE2000) in a PC. On this PC no OS is
> istalled. Now I want to create a BOOT-disk, that it is possible to
> boot
> from this
> disk (is not the problem) and than connecting the PC to the LAN and
> copy files from the server.
> Which files are needed on the BOOT disk ?
Juergen Berger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralph Mazza)
Subject: SLAPD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:12 GMT
I'm looking to communicate with someone who has worked with SLAPD or
ISODE X500 (DAP) full implementation on Linux.
Ralph Mazza
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Setting up a proxy server to distribute a cable modem signal
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:12 GMT
I have a cable modem signal coming into my house, and have
decided to set up a network to split the signal into 2 seperate IP
addresses so my roommate and I can both use the connection
simultaneously. I was told linux would handle this best, so I picked
up Red Hat v5.2 to throw on an old 486 I have sitting around to use as
the proxy server. I'm in the middle of the installation, and it
struck me that I have very little idea as to how to exactly go about
doing this.
Will the linux box be set up as a server? If so, how do I
configure it? It seems to me, from what people have told me, I may
have to set it up as a workstation, and get a program to run on it for
use as a proxy server. I checked sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux, and
couldn't really find anything to do this. If this situation is how it
must be handled, does anyone know where I'd get the proper software
(GNU GPL if at all possible)?
Thanks very much in advance for help. If at all possible, please
email your responses to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I will
post a summary after I have it figured out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Pan Lit Wong)
Subject: RSHD authentification
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:45 GMT
Hi,
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am using Slackware Linux and found some problem of the remote
>> shell daemon (rshd). I tried to do a "rsh" from other Unix
>> machine (e.g., HP-UX) and always failed. I found that the Linux
>> would launch the protocol "auth" (port 113 of TCP) for the
>> authentification checking. I would like to know how to completely
>> disable such "auth" protocol when doing remote shell from other clients.
>
>I haven't used Slackware in almost 5 years so this may not be entirely
>accurate but... look in /etc/pam.d and there should be a file called
>rsh. Man pam might help if slackware puts this somewhere else. You will
>also need ~username/.rhosts that *has* to be chmod'd 600 with the
>appropriate entries.
I could not find the /etc/pam.d in my Slackware. I saw this on some
other variants. I changed .rhsots, hosts.equiv but still cannot
get ride of the auth(113/TCP) protocol.
Regards,
PL Wong
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From: Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416 driver anyone?
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:37:19 GMT
nospam wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm having a really hard time finding a driver for my SMC EtherEZ board,
> based on the SMC 8416 chip. Anyone know where I might find one? Or
> does anyone know of a place to start looking? I did some web searching,
> but to no avail. My Red Hat 5.2 distribution didn't come with a driver
> for it :(
Are you the same guy that I've been talking to already?
The EtherEZ has an SMC Ultra compatibility mode. Use the dos utility on
the driver floppy to reconfigure the board, and put it in that mode. Use
the SMC Ultra driver.
- Eric
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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Minimal BOOT installation for ethernetcard.
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:37:51 GMT
images/boot.img for booting and images/supp.img for installing over network
They're all on the cdrom or at
ftp://ftp.christianianett.no/pub/unix/linux/redhat-5.2/i386/
use dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 to make them in unics or RAWRITE.EXE (
http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/ ) in DOS/Windoze
Juergen Berger wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have put an ethernet-card (NE2000) in a PC. On this PC no OS is
> > istalled. Now I want to create a BOOT-disk, that it is possible to
> > boot
> > from this
> > disk (is not the problem) and than connecting the PC to the LAN and
> > copy files from the server.
> > Which files are needed on the BOOT disk ?
>
> Juergen Berger
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MCSE, MCNE, CLS, ASE
http://home.christianianett.no/~roy/ (Norwegian)
Christianianett as - www.christianianett.no
Akersgt. 11, N-0158 OSLO, Norway
Phone: +47 2247 3100 - Cell phone: +47 9205 9296
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From: J Scott Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dynamic IP and stale sockets
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:35:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>J Scott Berg wrote:
>
>> So presumably what's happening is when one of these dead sockets sends
>> a request (even though it should be trying to get closed)
>
>Ah, but how is it going to know that? The sockets are in a separate layer
>from the PPP daemon. You need to shut down your processes that do
>connections over the PPP link, then bring them back up after you redial.
The processes that opened the connections in question are long gone.
Because the network connection bit the dust while the process still
had the socket open, however, the socket is in one of these half-baked
states and is not getting out of it until after some relatively long
timeout (TIME_WAIT or FIN_WAIT1 or whatever). The difficulty is that
the kernel is apparently sending packets across asking the other end
to close the socket even though the process that opened the socket on
my end exited long ago. At least this is what I think is happening
(it's the only thing I can think of that would explain what I saw on
tcpdump).
So my question is how do I stop the kernel from sending this junk
before the timeout period, or at least get it to send it somewhere
else other than down the new ppp connection that I open.
Thanks
-Scott Berg
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From: Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ 8416
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:38:00 GMT
Nasir Memon wrote:
>
> I dont see how that snippet in the HOW-TO helps. I have the same problem
> and have tried without success to get my Red Hat 5.1 to see the
> SMC EtherEZ 8416. I tried using isapnp using the instructions in
> the @home for linux page that someone pointed me to. No luck.
> And then I asked for help and get replies to the effect - coonfigure the
> card manually! How the hell do I do that? Why do people assume
> that any one using linux (and I have been for five years) will know
> how to configure an ethernet card for this or that or set it manually
> or what not@!!
I've never met an SMC network card that couldn't be manually configured
with the use of a DOS utility on the driver disk that came with it. To
tell the truth, I avoid them for that exact reason. their PnP isn't
purely PnP and stuff's just messy. I hate having to go for a floppy and
boot to dos whenever something isn't happy. It only took me 5 minutes to
figure out isapnptools and get my awe32 set up the way I wanted it, tho.
The part of that snippet that helps is the part that says it has an
Ultra compatibility mode that allows it to work with the Ultra driver,
and to be sure to set your card to use that mode.
So, to spell it out for you:
1: Use DOS utility to configure manually
2: Make sure you set it to Ultra compatibility mode
3: Use the SMC Ultra driver
> I am frustrated to the point of wiping out my linux partitions.
If I were you I'd only be frustrated to the point of getting a
different nic. Cheezy that it is, my WinBond based NE2000-PCI was
auto-detected and works perfectly. You can pick these and similar
RealTek boards up for under $20, close to $10 if you're clever. At my
last job, the boss claimed he was picking up PCI RTL-8029 boards for $8
each. They worked perfectly in anything we threw them at - and hey, if
they ever die, we can replace them for less than the cost of a decent
lunch. Life got expensive sometimes, working a block from the local
restaurant district, noon would edge up and I'd hear the siren call of a
fine japanese restaurant . . . or indian, or italian, or, well, you get
the point.
Sometimes you buy for the name, sometimes you buy it just because it
works fairly well and doesn't hassle you. A nic is not worth sweating
over, you'll never get a whole 10 megabits out of it anyway.
- Eric
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