Linux-Networking Digest #884, Volume #9 Fri, 15 Jan 99 03:14:07 EST
Contents:
Re: External ISDN adapter - Does it need to use mlppp? (Andrew Marcum)
Re: Still can't get it to boot (subject altered) (James B. Stevens)
Re: ftp problem (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: VNC Desktop (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Larry Caldwell)
Re: watch the traffic ?? (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Name server on @home (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: gethostbyname failure (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Obtaining MAC address from remote computer (Paul Flinders)
very small problem with cacheing nameserver (Omegaman)
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
(MalkContent)
Sending mail problems throw Linux Firewall (Francesco D'Inzeo)
Re: forwarding packets from outside to another computer on LAN (Raymond Doetjes)
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From: Andrew Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: External ISDN adapter - Does it need to use mlppp?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:29:49 GMT
I had the same problem with my 3com Impact IQ. I would connect to the ISP, but no
second channel
in Linux. However, I would get both in Windows. The problem was in the AT commands.
Windows
apparently gives the command for Multilink PPP in the background. I solved the
problem by going
into minicom and giving the commands:
ATS71=1 --- Async-Sync PPP conversion
ATS80=1 --- Multilink PPP
AT&W --- Writes settings to NVRAM
Now this was for a external 3com. If you have a different modem, the commands will
prob be
different. If you have this modem, the AT commands page is here:
http://infodeli.3com.com/infodeli/tools/isdn/impact/ext/at-cmds/at-cmds.htm
After issuing those commands, the modem dials up and connects on both channels like a
champ
(without the need for two phone numbers).
Andrew Marcum
Mark Cooperstein wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom) wrote:
> >
> >>Well I can connect to Earthlink now but only with one channel. I've
> >>read in the HOWTO's that you need to use a '&' between numbers after
> >>your ATD command. Mine looks like this -
> >>
> >>ATD 12345551212 & 12345551212
> >>
> >>Still I can only connect one channel. Dammit, I can get both channels
> >>in Windows why can't I do it in Linux? Any ideas? Anyone?
> >
> >If you're getting two channel connects in Winderz, you *should* get
> >them in Linux. You do know, don't you, that no matter what you do,
> >you can't always get two channel connects? This may be coincidence.
> >If you want the bloody, off-topic story about why you don't always get
> >two channels, email me.
> >
> >---
> >Joe Zeff
> > The Guy With the Sideburns
> >Computers work in strange and wonderful ways,
> >Their marvels to avoid performing.
> >http://www.lasfs.org
> >
> >
> I always get two channel connects! Except when I don't :-(
> The reason is simple if you don't, at least one reason. If your ISP uses
> PRI's as their main connection to the telco, it's virtually impossible to
> maintain a mlppp connection if you one B channel connected on one PRI and the
> other on another PRI. ie: they both have to be on the same PRI for the ISP's
> equipment to work.
>
> Mark
>
> ** Remove ".nospam" when replying or email will bounce back to you...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James B. Stevens)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Still can't get it to boot (subject altered)
Date: 14 Jan 1999 16:24:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the same problem booting my system from the floppy
drive. It seemed to work fine at first. I made several
attempts to format my hard drive & load the software--which
I had to abandon because of hardware incompatability
issues--but after a while when I re-started from scratch
I would get the nothing but the noxious "BOOT FAILED" message.
I finally made it work by changing my system BIOS & SCSI controller
BIOS to force my system to boot from the SCSI CD drive.
>
>I've done the rawrite on several formatted and scandisked disks. In all
>cases the boot shows the intro screen and related help screens f1 through f6
>all call up nicely. I've tried using the "expert" mode and just the regular
>mode, every time it hangs on the initrd.img
>I also tried running the boot before the diskmanager loads and it comes up
>"boot failed", not even the linux welcome screen shows then.
>
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| James B. Stevens |
| Advanced Photon Source |
| Controls & Computing Group |
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp problem
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:27:13 +0100
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Do you use binary mode while trying to "get" a windows file?
Raymond
Ted Potter wrote:
> Using Redhat 5.0 somehow I have broken ftp. I can not receive a file
> that ends in the extension of .exe or .EXE for that
> matter. It tries and then times out eventually. I have tried many files
> from many places with the same problem.
>
> I do not understand why a file extension would cause ftp to be unable to
> receive a file. Any clues ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ted Potter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: VNC Desktop
Date: 15 Jan 1999 14:45:37 +0800
>>>>> "Malay" == Malay Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Malay> Hi, I was wondering how I would setup a VNC Desktop server
Malay> on a redhat 5.2 machine. I have install VNC, but I can't
Malay> seem to connect to it with my Win95 machine this is what I
Malay> get in the log file
Malay> failed to set default font path
Malay> '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/$ Fatal
Malay> server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
Obviously, you have not installed the font files for X11R6. The font
named "fixed" is REQUIRED by all X-servers, including the Xvnc server.
Your Xvnc server failed to start because it cannot access the font
"fixed".u
Another possible cause is that your "fontpath" contains invalid
entries. In this case, edit the 'vncserver' file, delete the offending
entries, and then try starting the VNC server again. You can hunt the
offending fontpath entries by stripping them off from the 'vncserver'
file one by one.
Malay> How would I go about getting past this error?
Install X11 fonts. You may have installed your system without support
for X11 (esp. Server side). So, install X11 packages onto your system
and try again. If you think you can handle more advanced stuffs, you
don't have to install all those X11 things. Just install the font
files (the 'misc' fonts are essential, since the font named "fixed" is
there).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Caldwell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:40:33 -0800
In article <770b4r$v20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Those of you who say that mangled addresses don't address the problem but
> filtering (on the target host) does ... you have it backwards. Once the
> junk mail has been delivered, the spammer and the guy who sold him my name
> are both happy. Throwing it away manually or using procmail are the same.
Not necessarily. I use procmail to return an "undeliverable" code, which
bounces spam back to the sender just like a munged email address. That
way it's the spammer's mailbox that fills up, not mine. By running egrep
on the header, you can filter on anything in the header, so you don't
have to ding whole sites.
I will admit, however, that I refuse delivery of all email from
hotmail.com. I've never gotten a valid email from that site, so screw
'em.
-- Larry
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: watch the traffic ??
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:33:42 +0100
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The HTTP standardly log every request on IP /var/log/http*
With SMTP and email you should look for /var/log/mail
It is al beeing recorded without you knowing it
Raymond
T.Lauter wrote:
> How can the entire traffic of a linux-webserver be recorded?
>
> That should happen for each single user.
>
> It leisures also accesses of outsides is considered.
>
> Each access over HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP should become grasp. (in and out)
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Name server on @home
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:25:59 +0100
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You mean a PDC with WINS on SambA?
Yesy I have it is real easy even easier then with NT just reda the
smb.conf file and enable the thing you need. If you can't find it out
mail me.
Raymond
Mark Robinson wrote:
> Has anyone had success in installing/running a primary name server
> will using @home?
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gethostbyname failure
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:37:14 +0100
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Do you have a entry like
127.0.0.1 localhost
in your /etc/host?? This should be there loclhost beeing the name of your host.
Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> Whenever I am trying to start fetchmail in my machine it is exiting
> with an error saying gethostbyname failed for darkstar(which is the hostname
> by default set at the linux slackware installation time). From behaviour
> of some other programs I think that it is failing because there is no
> domain name set for my machine. Although I set it by the setdomainname
> command still fetchmail gives the same error. Is it need to be set during
> the startup procedure at boot time (may be in a proper sequence)? Could
> somebody help me out?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sudip
>
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From: Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Obtaining MAC address from remote computer
Date: 14 Jan 1999 16:44:04 +0000
"Sander Pilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I dont WANT the ethernet card MAC address.
> I want a *COMPLETELY* transparant forwarder/NAT-device.
>
> Meaning I want to send out packets with other machines MAC addresses.
But if you're forwarding packets you _already_ know the source MAC
address because it's in the packet you recieved.
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From: Omegaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: very small problem with cacheing nameserver
Date: 15 Jan 1999 00:09:50 -0600
I have a small lan with IP MASQ and a cacheing nameserver on the
internet connected server machine. It all works pretty well. I can
connect over the net from other machines on the lan without a problem.
However, nslookup fails on those machines, but not on the connected
server machine:
$nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.3: Non-existent host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
But, as I said, names resolve fine when using the web or any other
client software. /etc/resolv.conf on client machine:
nameserver 192.168.1.3 # ether IP address of connected server machine
Just wondering what I'm missing. Here's resolv.conf on the server
machine:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
Let me know what other info/files are needed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MalkContent)
Subject: Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND
idiot-friendly?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:34:24 GMT
So Far, here, as with so many other posts on relative M$ Vs. Linux,
I've seen all sorts of bitching, moaning, and crying
(as well as the well thought out defense of...)
about "idiot friendly"
I MUST BE THAT IDIOT
Since the demise of commercially available Dos - based software,
I have been stuck with adjusting to Windoze.
I don`t have a really snazzy job, I work in a warehouse.
I however am a consumer. I buy things I can use.
Having just bought RedHat 5.2, I thought I was going to shit a horse!
This stuff is user tolerant. That's it.
(unless of course you're one of the tech-elite...cos this discussion keeps
degrading into elitist convo.)
aIts a pain in the backside to mount then unmount a CDROM.
even though it looks like :
mount dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/blahblahblah
Most users probably agree that that's a whole bunch of extra effort.
If Linux is so great as described, why's it so painful for the john doe to use?
Windoze is a necessary evil - access for the uninformed, or unwilling
Masochists (like myself) grab Linux out of a box, and find there's a whole
boatload of tweaking we need to do to use it. john doe won't.
The real evil of M$ is their monopolistic practices.
The real good of linux is that its like philosophy - free to all for their use.
Then again, someone out there is gonna flame the hell outta this,
and Gates' lawyers probably want me dead now too! =)
MalkContent
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From: Francesco D'Inzeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sending mail problems throw Linux Firewall
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:47:55 +0100
Hi everybody
I have a RH 5.1 Linux box which acts as DNS and
does IP Farwarding between a private network say 192.168.2.xxx
and a Class C internet pool of address.
What I did is
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.2.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
It works fine for everything except when I try to send mail messages
with
attachments.
I can send normal mail messages without attachments, but when I try to
attach anything to the mail message it cannot be delivered.
Is there anyone who can help me ?
P.S.
The same happens from the Linux box at the same time as from
other W95/WNT boxes in the private Network area.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: forwarding packets from outside to another computer on LAN
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:40:12 +0100
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You are so right with forwarding and masquerading it doesn't work, because
the forward towards the inet and not from the inet.
You should download rinetd this will enable you to redirect calls by prot
number.
Forinstance when you tell it in the /etcxxx (dunno the name right now):
ispip port destinationip
10.1.1.1 80 192.168.1.2 then every call from 10.1.1.1 on port 80 will be
redirected to your 192.168.1.2 box.
This works great! except for FTP since FTP uses more than 1 socket per
session.
Raymond
Josh Rusko wrote:
> ok i have a semi-stupid question that's probably answered in a howto
> somewhere, but I've been looking and haven't been able to find it.
> I want to have an old linux box on a LAN set up as a firewall with IP
> masquerading and acting as the internet connection for the LAN. no
> problem there...
> now given the following scenario:
> firewall: local IP=192.168.1.1, ppp link to internet, only the minimum
> services running
> host2: localIP=192.168.1.2, internet connection through firewall.
> how would I tell the firewall computer that all incoming packets on,
> say, port 25, should be forwarded to port 25 on host2? I want host2 to
> be a mail server for the LAN, but it has a fake IP address. is this
> possible using just ip masquerading, and if so how? or do I need to set
> up a SOCKS server on the firewall box?
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