Linux-Networking Digest #843, Volume #9 Sun, 10 Jan 99 22:13:51 EST
Contents:
Re: database suggestions, please? (Victor Wagner)
Re: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument (ALPHA) (Wisquatuk)
Re: DOS client? (Victor Wagner)
Re: . Pop3 HELP! (Victor Wagner)
Re: Win98 - Linux [Which FAST protocol ?] ("Jorge Herrera")
tcp_wrappers and samba... (Derek Shaw)
Re: No ethernet on RH 5.2 -- SIOCSIFLAGS?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux & NE2k ISA card problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cannot send packets outside the network (Narayan Parameshwar)
Pentium with CD -> 486 without (Mikhail Bovineck)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Zoltan Kocsi)
Re: Sygate/Nat32 equivalent for linux ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
pppd and user permissions (Frank Hale)
Re: ppp with isdn ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
Re: Pentium with CD -> 486 without ("XaosSlaad")
Re: weirdness in ftp ("Peter L. Berghold")
MPPP (Robert Vecchiolli)
Re: Winmodem (Bounty Hunter)
Re: BellAtlantic.net and PPP 2.3.5 (Stephen Carville)
Re: Why can PPP configure the DNS server address dynamically? (Stephen Carville)
Re: win98 to Linux Networking Problem ("Kool Rob")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Subject: Re: database suggestions, please?
Date: 11 Jan 1999 01:36:11 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alice Dobry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello:
: I'm setting up a Linux web server, and need to choose a data base
: as well. The data base, when it's actually implemented, will be
: updated periodically through the day and needs to be accessible
: via CGI. It also needs to interface with Java servlets, SQL, and
: ODBC. I have no other criteria other than the database will
: become very large, lots of records, say 200 MB to 1 GB file
: size. It also needs to be transferable back to Windows NT in
: case the boss says we're moving back to NT.
I'll suggest PostgresSQL as only free full-featured SQL server.
mySQL is faster, and probably would be free for you (it has somewhat
restrictive license) but it is not SQL. SQL stands for Structured Query
Language, which implies nesting of queries, and nested queries is that
very thing which was sacrificed for speed in mysql.
PostgreSQL has JDBC and ODBC, and also has sql shell which supports
command-line editing just like bash (why Oracle doesn't do this?)
If need arises to move back to NT you can easily back your database up
into sql script and restore it into say, Oracle. (insist on Oracle,
as most compatible with your existing Postgresql setup SQL server for
NT, its cost would make your boss think twice about moving back).
Of course, Oracle is better, than Postgres, but it also very costly.
You can also try Informix, which is free for Linux, but costly for NT.
Same for Interbase, which is mich lighter than Oracle, Sybase or
Informix. (compare 128Mb and 4Mb compressed file for download and 64 vs
16 Mb of memory to run).
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From: Wisquatuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument (ALPHA)
Date: 11 Jan 1999 01:35:54 GMT
Sam Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ipfwadm does not seem to use correct calls to the sockets API. It
>> seems to work fine on both my intel machines running 2.0.35 and
>> 2.0.36. However, it does not work with the 2.1.x kernels, when i
>> use it with one of these kernels, I get API error messages.
>
> I have the same problem on an x86 system using kernel 2.1.128.
>
Check out the kernel Changes file, in the Documentation directory,
especially the part about ipfwadm and ipchains.
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Wisquatuk (myname[1..4]@netrover.com to e-mail)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Subject: Re: DOS client?
Date: 11 Jan 1999 00:59:36 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Lapsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: IS there a native DOS client I can use to log onto a Linux server?
: Apparently I can setup a MARS server that will allow me to use the VLM's I
: use for our Netware servers, but is there a way to do it without using this
: emulation?
What do you mean saying "log on to Linux server".
If you want to connect to Linux server and issue Linux command from
keyboard of DOS machine, you need telnet client. Good one for DOS you
can get from NCSA.
If you want to mount some directories from Linux server as DOS network
disks and authorize yourself as linux user so files you create on these
disks would have proper ownership, you have as many as three options
1. As you've said use some Netware emulation package (there are more
than just mars)
2. Use SMB (MS-Windows networking) protocol. Linux server for this
protocol is samba. Clients for Windows For Workgroups, Windows 9x and NT
are built into those OS. Client for DOS - MS Lanmanager client, can be
downloaded freely from microsoft. Only drawback - if you really have
DOS, client is huge. You need to enable TCP stack, becouse samba works
only over TCP, and MSClient together with TCP would eat up about 120Mb
of precious DOS memory. (I'm afraid you'll not find enough UMB to load
it)
3. Use native linux file sharing protocol - NFS (probably it is thing
you have in mind).
There exist couple of shareware NFS clients for DOS. Of course, NFS
protocol doesn't support authorization itself - it is intended to share
files between unix machines, each of them authorizes users itself.
So you need some extension to this protocol, named PCNFS, which would
support remote authorization and printing (becouse in DOS printing is
usially done with same network client as file sharing and on Unix these
are two completely different protocols). So, you'll need to run
additional daemon - rpc.pcnfsd on your linux server (this daemon is
quite easy to configure - it needs only one argument - word writable
directory where print jobs are spooled before they are passed to lpd)
If you decide to go this way, you need
1. Check if your distribution contain rpc.psnfsd, and if not so, obtain
and compile it
2. Obtain PC-NFS client software for DOS. There are couple of shareware
packages on ftp://ftp.kiarchive.ru/pub/msdos/net/nfs
For 386 and up I'd prefer xfs to tnfs, but your mileage may vary.
There are also some commercial packages like original SUN's PC-NFS,
PC-TCP and so on. They (if old enough) are even able to work on XT.
But they are also memory-hughry, while xfs and tnfs consume resonable
amount of memory - about 64 k.
: Thanks in advance for any help!
: Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: . Pop3 HELP!
Date: 11 Jan 1999 01:04:39 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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: I just installed RedHat 5.2 on a new computer. I added some users and
: everything seems to be working just fine. But when I try to connect to
: the server using a pop3 client (outlook express) I keep getting error
: messages like this one.
: "Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible
: causes for this include server problems, network porblems, or a long
: period of inactivity. Account: 'pmi.netmagicu.com', Server:
: 'pmi.netmagicu.com;',Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL) No, Error
: Number: 0x800CCC0F:"
: I have almost gone crazy trying to figure this out. Any help would be
: greatly appreciated.
First thing you have to do is to look in servers log file. In most cases
there would be more detained description of errors.
do following thing:
Open telnet window side by side to E-Mail colient. Do su command in this
window and become root on your server.
type "tail -f /var/log/messages"
Try to connect with e-mail client. You may see something interesting.
But most probably you just haven't installed package imap.
For some crazy reason RedHat put pop server into same package as imap
server, while most people think that pop and imap are alternatives to
choose from, rather than things which should go together.
: Thanks
: Max Clark
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From: "Jorge Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 - Linux [Which FAST protocol ?]
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:54:20 -0500
With Windows '98 and Linux, the best IS TCP/IP, but since you mentioned that
is not an option, try using ipx/spx or Netbeui. MARS implements ipx/spx and
samba implements Netbeui.
-Jorge
Athan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Hello
>
>I have a win98 and Linux box with 2 isa 3c509tp cards,
>which protocol should I use for fast connections except TCP/IP
>
>Thank you
>Athan
>
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:10:50 -0800
From: Derek Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: tcp_wrappers and samba...
Is it possible to wrap the smb protocols with tcp wrappers?
In other words, if I start smbd and nmbd in inetd.conf, can I use tcpd to allow who
connects to the service?
What are the pros and cons vs. just starting samba in the initd hierarchy?
TIA!
d.
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Derek Shaw
Business Information Systems
Victoria, BC.
voice: 250-885-2021 fax: 250-386-4060
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No ethernet on RH 5.2 -- SIOCSIFLAGS??
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:27:36 GMT
I also had a problem after installing a scsi board for a scanner. The ethernet
used to work, but after the scsi install my RH5.2 linux couldn't find the
Ethernet card.
However, unlike your report I never saw anything other than the loopback
interface (lo) when typing "ifconfig -a" I also got "unknown device eth0"
I moved the ethernet board (3com 3c509) to another slot, which got it
a new IRQ. However, rebooting after that did not bring back the ethernet card
support. This was weird, since the card had worked once. Why shouldn't it
work again with a new IRQ?
I tracked the new problem to the file /etc/conf.modules. Apparently the
original conf.modules file had been moved to conf.modules.bak (which may have
occurred upon the kernel detecting an IRQ collision between the scsi and
ethernet card). The contents of the file is "alias eth0 3c59x"
Copying the .bak file back to "conf.modules" fixed the problem, and the
ethernet card is now correctly detected at boot time.
In article <VXUd2.5037$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"JMV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get my ethernet card to work on RH 5.2. It's an AT 2450 (AMD PCnet
> PCI) and i'm using the pcnet32 driver. It worked on Caldera Open Linux.
>
> When I startup Linux and type "ifconfig eth0" it reports all the correct
> information. If I try to use netscape though, i get a TCP error message
> (telnet won't work either). If I try to activate the card using netcfg (I
> get this error whether it says it is active or not), the xterm window
> reports something like unable to activate eth0 SIOCSIFLAGS Resources
> unavailable. What does that mean?
>
> Also now if I type "ifconfig eth0" i will either get "unknown device eth0"
> or sometimes I get some info about eth0 but now all the IP, Gateway, info
> has been set to 0.0.0.0...
>
> One problem might be my SCSI adapter. It is assigned the same IRQ. Is there
> a way to prevent Linux from recognizing / starting up my SCSI card. I would
> like to avoid pulling it out right now if possible. What does that kernel
> daemon do??? If I try and remove the SCSI module, save, and close it doesn't
> work. When I re-open kerneld the scsi module is listed again.
>
> Like I said. It all used to work using COL 1.2 and 1.3 . Shouldn't RH 5.2 be
> able to handle this? Or should I just go back to COL 1.2?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux & NE2k ISA card problem
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:11:56 GMT
Hello,
I have been having problems with Red Hat 5.2 and a NE2000 ISA network card.
I have had NO problems with this card and NT. Linux didn't find that card at
first so I went in an added it to conf.modules Now Linux finds it and it
will work for no more than a minute. I have run tests where right after boot
I start pinging one of my other machines and after about 30 returns nothing.
I have also pinged from the other machine to this problem machine and after
about 30 seconds I get the time out message.
I have read the help section at Red Hat and see there have been reports of
TCP/IP packets failing to be transfer. Has anyone had this problem and over
come it?
Thanks
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From: Narayan Parameshwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot send packets outside the network
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:30:02 GMT
Hi!
I am a beginer with linux. I have installed RedHat 5.2 on my
computer which has 3com 3c509 ethernet card. The address of the machine
is 192.168.100.111. I have the following problem:
I am able ping or telnet to a machine within our network (such
as 192.168.100.101). However, I cannot send IP packets outside my
network. I have specified 192.168.100.100 as the gateway (which is our
router) and DNS (which is on our ISP network) address is also
specified. I do not have any host specific routes or any other entries
in the routing table. The packets do not even leave the machine. I get
network unreachable error message. This occurs regardless of whether I
entered name of the machine or a specific IP address.
I have not specified any netmask. It does not work even if i
specifiy any netmask. But I think the problem is in the proper
specification of netmasks. I really appreciate if any of you can provide
any solution to this problem.
Regards,
Narayan Parameshwar
AWARD Solutions, Inc
(972) 664-0727
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikhail Bovineck)
Subject: Pentium with CD -> 486 without
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:23:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi - I have Linux installed on a hardrive on a pentium box which
originated on a CD ( RedHat Distribution). I also have a 486
with no CD which I would like to make a Linux box as well. In other
words, I would like to access the pentium box's CDrom from the 486.
Currently the 486 has muLinux installed on it, downloaded from the net
and installed using 3 floppies.
All I have to connect the two is a null modem cable. According to the
RedHat docs I should be able to install from the CD via a network but
do I need a network card for that? Is the /dev/cua1 port sufficient?
If so, how do I configure the durn thing? All the Howto's seem to
just be short of an answer that works!
I have read all the docs from the LDP and the RedHat distribution but
my head is spinning around! Could someone please please explain in
English for me how I connect the two (i.e. what protocol, what scripts
etc). I'm sure someone has had to do this before.
I thank you in anticipation,
Cheers :)
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From: Zoltan Kocsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 10 Jan 1999 02:05:37 +1100
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Zoltan> Yup, immediatelly after you downloaded it. Connection time
> Zoltan> costs money, you know. Spam also wastes disk space at the
> Zoltan> ISP, bandwidth, resources on my machines, it wastes my
> Zoltan> time and so on, I do not like downloading 1M junk with
> Zoltan> Windows binaries to read 20K mail. I don't have a 24/7
> Zoltan> 10M link for flat monthly fee yet so I - pathetic or not -
> Zoltan> do not like huge messages which I pay for before
> Zoltan> discarding them unread.
>
> I have never received a single binary "junk mail" file. Ever. I've
> been on the 'net for five years. You'll excuse me if I'm somewhat
> dubious about your claim that they're a constant problem. Of course,
I have to admit that it is not a 'constant problem'. However, I *did*
receive Windows binaries which were supposed to do some graphics whizbang
to drag me into the great opportunity of my life. Not too often, I admit,
about twice, but even one is more than enough. Especially that I have no
Windows to see them with... MS Word files are a little more frequent,
HTML junk is not uncommon at all and >10K ASCII mail is quite everyday
stuff.
Regardless, the amount of junk I received while I was using my real address
on USENET went beyond my limit. The amount I receive now does not exceed
the timeframe allowed to try to find their real source and complain at
their ISPs.
> you should use a responsible ISP that filters mail and you should do
> what you can to help them do it.
Well, why should *I* change ISP, pay for all the associated cost and
in general have all the hassle ? I thought that it was the spammer who
was the bad guy and should be punished, not me.
> All the means are available to you
> to take care of your own problem. It's your choice not to use them.
> That decision has nothing to do with the spammers.
Yes, one of the means is to use a fake address on USENET. My choice is
to use this method. This choice has something to do with spammers for
if there was no spam, I wouldn't a use fake address. I used my real
address when the net wasn't for telemarketing but for interchanging
information. I do remember when usenet spamming was not tolerated by
the net community - now email spamming is something 'we must live with'.
I do not want to get it.
> My opinion remains unchanged. These activities do nothing to reduce
> the spam levels nor to end the activities of spammers. I look forward
They *did* reduce *my* spam levels and on this side of the cable that's
what counts. In addition, if I do not receive that amount of rubbish
every day, then it's not wasting the Net.
Mail filtering does not do anything to reduce spam levels, nor does
it end the activities of spammers. However, by providing a real address
where you then delete the mail unread immediatelly after it reached
your machine is a very clear case of deliberately wasting Net resources.
I try to approach my spam problem from the angle of "if it doesn't
exist, I can't see it". You seem to look at it the "if I can't see it,
it doesn't exist" way.
They send you mail but you discard it. They don't send it to me.
Which one is better ? My opinion is unchanged too ...
> to the day that news servers are configured to require a correct
> return address, just as mail servers now are.
Well, if they are, they are not compliant to the RFCs ...
(AFAIK)
> Don't worry. I don't reply to munged addresses.
I'm not worried at all :-)
Zoltan
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sygate/Nat32 equivalent for linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:21:48 -0600
Andrew Kaplan wrote:
>
> I'm curious what the easiest method is for using Linux to share a modem
> amongst several machines on a mixed Linux/Windows LAN...basically having
> linux do the same thing that Sygate or other NAT programs for windoze
> does.
>
It's called IP Masquerading and it's amazingly simple, assuming your
kernel has the support compiled in. Actually, it's not too hard even if
you need to recompile the kernel:
1) Compile firewalling and masquerading into the kernel (just say "yes"
to those two choices when doing "make config").
2) Add the following two lines somewhere towards the end of your
initialization scripts (I put them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local):
ipfwadm -F -d deny
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
3) Set up TCP/IP on your other machines on the LAN to use the Linux box
as the gateway (192.168.0.1 in my case) and to use your ISP's Name
Server.
Where I have 192.168.0, you should use whatever is appropriate for your
intranet.
That's it.
This works great for me, but if a real expert has any further advice
(perhaps reguarding security or things like ICQ, etc.) I'd be happy to
hear about it.
--
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd and user permissions
Date: 11 Jan 1999 02:29:55 GMT
I have a perl script which connects to my isp. It needs to call pppd and
the script works fine for root but it won't work as a user. The error
message says
/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege
I have set the permissions to setuid. At least I think I have I did a
chmod 4755 on it. How can I get the pppd program to work with users?
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From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/frankhale/
Jade: http://jade.netpedia.net/
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,;,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp with isdn
Date: 11 Jan 1999 01:02:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi I'm really new to Linux and need a little help.
: I just bought RedHat 5.2 and installed it on my Pentium200.
: Installation went flawlessly. X windows is up and running. Now I
: want to connect to the internet.
: I have a 3com Impact IQ external ISDN adapter connected to com2.
: I've been using the control panel utility to configure my computer in
: X. I used the modem utility to configure the modem on com2. I then
: added the device 'ppp0' in network devices. I then entered my
: username and password for my ISP for this device.
: Now what? How do I connect to my ISP?
Tom,
There is an unmaintained how-to at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PPP-over-ISDN
Basically, you run pppd and chat to handle your connection. Also read the
PPP docs that came on the CD. I don't know where they are in RH, but look
for something like /usr/doc/pppd. There, you should find a reference for
all the arguments to pppd.
Hope That Helps.
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Jeremy Buchmann "Those who trade freedom for safety deserve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
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From: "XaosSlaad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pentium with CD -> 486 without
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:54:56 -0500
Hi,
Have you considered taking the CD-ROM drive out of your Pentium and putting
it in your 486 for the duration of the install, or just buying a cd rom
drive for your 486? In the long run it would probably be easier than a
network install unless you can set up your pentium as a ftp server and
install two network cards and doing a network install with a crosslink
cable.......
That is unless you hae\ve little experience with hardware, but it's not too
hard...... i could give yeah help
--XaosSlaad
Mikhail Bovineck wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Hi - I have Linux installed on a hardrive on a pentium box which
>originated on a CD ( RedHat Distribution). I also have a 486
>with no CD which I would like to make a Linux box as well. In other
>words, I would like to access the pentium box's CDrom from the 486.
>
>Currently the 486 has muLinux installed on it, downloaded from the net
>and installed using 3 floppies.
>
>All I have to connect the two is a null modem cable. According to the
>RedHat docs I should be able to install from the CD via a network but
>do I need a network card for that? Is the /dev/cua1 port sufficient?
>
>If so, how do I configure the durn thing? All the Howto's seem to
>just be short of an answer that works!
>
>I have read all the docs from the LDP and the RedHat distribution but
>my head is spinning around! Could someone please please explain in
>English for me how I connect the two (i.e. what protocol, what scripts
>etc). I'm sure someone has had to do this before.
>
>I thank you in anticipation,
>
>Cheers :)
>
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From: "Peter L. Berghold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: weirdness in ftp
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:55:54 GMT
Eric Melville wrote:
> but this didn't help at all. how come people can connect to the server,
> but then not be able to do anything?
>
> any ideas?
>
>
Erik,
I'm going to take a wild stab here since I don't have all the info I need to
make a diagnosis, but here goes:
If you are trying to MASQ the 5 nodes that are sharing an IP address (which
it is what it sounds like you are doing) you need to compile the kernal with
support for IP_MASQ_FTP enabled. I ran into the same problem and that is
how I fixed it.
HTH...
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From: Robert Vecchiolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MPPP
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:17:39 -0500
Does anyone know if there is a way to get Linux to use the MPPP protocol with modems?
I know that
isdn4linux has support for MP but since i don't have ISDN I need to comfigure my
system to use
modems.
-Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bounty Hunter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Winmodem
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:57:09 GMT
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:24:00 -0500, Shenzhi Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I got a Winmodem in my computer. So, is there anyway to make in
>working in Linux? If not, any recommendation for a modem that can work
>in Linux?
> Thanks for any response.
I am looking right now at a package called isapnptools.
It says that it will work with the newer win-type modems.
Be advised though, some hacking is required! This package will help
you get started though.
Steve
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: BellAtlantic.net and PPP 2.3.5
Date: 11 Jan 1999 02:51:19 GMT
Frank Hale wrote:
>
> Frank Hale wrote:
> >
> > How come I can connect to BellAtlantic.net with PPP 2.2.0f-5 but when I
> > upgrade to the newest version say the one that came with my RedHat 5.2
> > system it won't connect. I have had to downgrade this package evertime I
> > upgraded RH from 5.0 - 5.1 and now 5.2.
> >
>
> Forget it. I got a new ISP I am sick of fooling with BellAtlantic.net
>
> AT&T World net gives directions on how to connect with Linux in case
> other BellAtlantic.net frustrated users want to change.
>
> http://www.wurd.com/
>
> For dialing with linux see below link.
>
> http://www.wurd.com/wurd/software/dialers/linux.html
I second this recommendation. A lot of the local carriers like Bell
Atlantic and GTE (my local carrier) are downright hostile to Linux users.
(GTE still insists that DSL will not work with Linux!) ATT has been much
more friendly and helpful to me. They do not officially support Linux but
they do sponsor a newsgroup for *NIX users and have several FAQ for non
windows people.
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Stephen Carville
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Management: The art of hiring intelligent, skilled individuals and then
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why can PPP configure the DNS server address dynamically?
Date: 11 Jan 1999 03:02:24 GMT
George wrote:
>
> Is there a technical reason why PPP can't configure the ISP's DNS server
> address
> dynamically? How does one handle multiple ISPs each with different
> DNSes?
The correct way is to use DHCP but I don't think any ISP's support that for
dialup connections yet. When I had more than one dialup PPP connection I
defined multiple interfaces (ppp0, ppp1, etc) using netcfg.
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Stephen Carville
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Management: The art of hiring intelligent, skilled individuals and then
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From: "Kool Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: win98 to Linux Networking Problem
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:17:21 -0800
Had the same problem.. went to Mircosoft, they had a page about the problem.
It fixed it for me.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q187/2/28.asp
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