Linux-Networking Digest #900, Volume #9 Sat, 16 Jan 99 20:13:50 EST
Contents:
Re: DNS and isdn help (Mark Cooperstein)
Re: You won't crack this one... ("David Snyders")
Re: Newbie / hosts file / domain name? (Frank Hahn)
ip-masquerading ("Christopher")
Re: Linux vs WIN NT (Lord Spurius)
PCMCIA and 2.2 kernels (Lord Spurius)
Re: Networking problems with 2.2.0-pre4 (Clifford Kite)
test ("Vineet S. Rao")
Re: Blocking UDP with Firewall (Malware)
Re: Fetchmail error (messages included). SMTP fail. (Malware)
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
(Peter Sch�ller)
Re: Wyse-60 emulation / help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: newbie: working with a number of ISPs ("Stu")
Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port ("Stu")
Re: Online with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ip-masquerading (Qkev)
Re: RedHat 5.2/NIS/netgroups ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Etherexpress problem: CU wedged, ... resetting (Ed Lawson)
Samba Issues ("Jeff Lapsley")
Re: port forwarding on localhost (Qkev)
Re: Connecting via M$ Proxy Server/Firewall (pfrets)
IP Masquerading ... help !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IP Masquerading ... help !! (Benjohn007)
Re: Good Intermediate to Advanced Linux Networking Book??? ("Robert H. Thompson")
Re: Telnet ("Stu")
Ethernet connection not working (Scallica)
Revenge of NT? (Jason A Fletcher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Re: DNS and isdn help
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:59:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Heinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have a 3com impactiq ta (external). I can connect only on one b
>channel. If I try a multilink connection I can connect, but I can't
>ping a name (ping cnn.com). When only one b channel is operating I can
>ping. Even more weird, if I use multilink and then ping it will do
>nothing... until I pick up a line (and the dynamic bandwidth function
>drops a B channel {one for data one for voice}) it suddenly pings!!!!.
>Then as soon as I hang up the line and Multilink re-establishes the
>second B channel the pinging stops. Any ideas? I am stumped. When
>checking my kernel for isdn support it was of course there. In one of
>the help blurbs I saw something about ipppd???? Cant find any other
>reference to it.
>
>
>
You dont need isdn support for an external isdn TA. Kernel isdn support is
only for internal isdn cards (and only for the one supported by Linux).
** Remove ".nospam" when replying or email will bounce back to you...
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From: "David Snyders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: You won't crack this one...
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:55:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <77ns0s$h05$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> When we ran tcpdump on my friends net there was activity like hell but
not a
>> damn thing here. And I didn't change a thing! I unplugged it from his
>> network and plugged it in here. We even configured the Linux box with my
>> settings (ip, gw, etc.) and it ran just fine in his net. Not at all in
mine.
>>
>> Any ideas are more than welcome. I'm going nuts here...
Perhaps your network card came loose during transport.
Perhaps your network cable is faulty.
Try swapping cables with a machine that's known to work. If the problem
moves, it lies within the cable. If the problem stays, it is within the
machine.
If your machine dual boots to (dare I say it?) Win95 and you are getting no
response, problem is with network card.
If you are getting response, problem is with linux config.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Newbie / hosts file / domain name?
Date: 16 Jan 1999 23:04:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:32:16 -0800, jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up TCP/IP on a home network with 2 Win95 machine and a
>Linux box. I won't be connected to any other network, except when one of
>the Win95's uses dial-up networking.
>
> OK, I've figured out what addresses I can use for this type of private
>network (I'm gonna use 192.168.1.1/2/3). Everything works OK, pings OK all
>around.
>
Pretty neat isn't it!
> Now I'm writing a hosts file. I know the names of the hosts, but the
>docs suggest that I need a domain name. What sort of generic domain name
>should I use? "localdomain"?
>
At first I used something like "home.net", but then I found out there
really was a home.net. I then just changed it to the same as my ISP's.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: "Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: ip-masquerading
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:18:26 -0700
I have a problem when I try to setup ip-masquerading on my linux firewall.
I have compiled my kernel with all the options for networking, firewalling,
ip-masquerading.
The trouble I am having is when I try to setup my firewall with
ip-masquerading.
Here is what is happening
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
<-- no problem
/sbin/depmod -a
<-- no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp.o
<--no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio.o
<--no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc.o
<--no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme.o
<--no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive.o
<--no problem
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake.o
<-- no problem
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
<--no problem
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 <--this
command fails
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0
<--no problem
The problem I am having is when I try to the following command
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
I get the error message
ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument
The only way I can get ip-forwarding to work is to type
ipfwadm -F -p masquerade
I am running redhat 5.2 on a DEC alphastation 200 4/233
I have installed a second NIC in the system(the box comes with a nic
installed)
I have read in just about every HOW-TO's I can find of networking,
firewalling, PPP, ipforwarding, net3, kernel, alpha, etc......and have
followed all the instructions in them.
I have eth0 connected to my internal network here at my house. (192.168.0.5)
eth1 is connected to a cable modem with the Cox @home ISP. (24.1.aaa.bb)
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
Christopher
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From: Lord Spurius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs WIN NT
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:07:41 +0000
Petr Sulla wrote:
> Johan Wouters wrote:
> >
> > Any hints on where I can find any -objective?- comparisons between
> > WIN NT and Linux? I am about to become a network administrator of
> > 75 PC's and we have a very vivid argument about what OS our server
> > should use. (I tend to dislike WIN NT and prefer linux!)
> >
> > The server has to do mail routing, web server, network routing, ftp
> > archive and even some applications will run on it. We where thinking
>
> Well, if you want to really RUN applications ON the server (not just
> share the files over the net and run them on the client), you might
> really consider installing Linux. It can be done in NT (I forgot the
> name of the program), but it's bloated, not a system-clean solution and
> expensive. In Linux you just set the DISPLAY variable.
>
> > about using a dual pentium II with 256MB of memory.
> > Any hints on this subject?
>
> Look at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/
>
> Well, Linux & Samba & Apache & Qmail & ProFTPd and you can't want
> more... And it's for free.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Petr Sulla (alias Pedro) mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why use Windows, WWW: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsulla
> when there's a door: Linux...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hrm, if you want an objective letter, why not read something straight
from microsoft?
The "Halloween Documents" as they're referred were an internal microsoft
study on
Open Source software, primarily Linux. They were not meant to be
released, but someone
leaked them to the net. Microsoft admits that they are theirs.
Warning: there is still some debate over whether the later halloween
documents are a
plant, so take them with a grain of salt. However, the first one is
generally considered
to be genuine.
here's a mirror site in case you care to look
http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~abe/mirrors/halloween/halloween1.html
- Spurius
"Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: Lord Spurius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA and 2.2 kernels
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:17:56 +0000
I installed 2.2pre4 on my RH5.2 freshman laptop (those of you who know
who I am don't laf). I then proceeded to get the latest pcmcia 3.0.7 I
believe) because I was informed it was needed for 2.2 kernels.
It detects the card, pcmcia starts up fine, and everything; however, it
won't connect to the network. When I did dhcpcd -d it got an IP, and
immediatly after that gave an ioctl error, along the lines of (ifConfig)
: Invalid option
(don't have exact because I can't try it out at home where my computer
with net access is)
It worked just jim dandy in my 2.0.36 system with the old pcmcia.
I can't find this error or any known problems with my card (uses the
3c_589_cs driver I believe) listed under any of the PCMCIA files.
Any clue what I should try?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Networking problems with 2.2.0-pre4
Date: 16 Jan 1999 16:48:08 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: A quick follow up to what I've already posted:
: I've also noticed that ifconfig seems to indicate I'm getting a significant
: amount of errors compared to actual transferred packets.
: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:65:83:D5
: inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:206.228.186.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
: UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
: RX packets:40469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
: TX packets:39137 errors:152903 dropped:1323 overruns:0
: Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
Uprade ifconfig with, e.g., net-tools-1.49.tar.gz . Check the file
Documentation/Changes (in the Linux source tree) for where to get it.
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Those who can't write, write manuals. */
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From: "Vineet S. Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:28 GMT
test
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blocking UDP with Firewall
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:06:12 +0100
Hi Paul,
you wrote:
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -f
>
> /sbin/ipfwadm -I -a accept -D $CURRENTIP -k
UDP packets destinated to you might fall through above rule as the "-P
tcp" is missing. And because outgoing traffic seems to be all permitted
you can use NFS.
Malware
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fetchmail error (messages included). SMTP fail.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:57:18 +0100
Hi Aaron,
you wrote:
> 2 messages for [user] at [server] (16782 bytes) reading message 1 of 2
> (11622 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from server
> fetchmail: Query status = 10
>
> What went wrong?
Looks like you do not have running a SMTP daemon - like sendmail - on
your local machine but fetchmail does want to deliver the mail to it.
Malware
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND
idiot-friendly?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Sch�ller)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:41:09 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MalkContent) writes:
> 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?
A person used to Windows/MacOS will feel lost in Linux. A person used to Linux will
feel
lost in Windows. It's as simple as that.
The first time I ever used a computer, it was a Mac, running MacOS 6. After that, I
used
some DOS on an old portable. Guess what I ended up using? The latter. I hated Windows
3.x almost from the beginning. Then I tried OS/2 and switched immediately. Then I tried
Linux, and switched immediately. So, if MacOS/Windows is "really" more easy to use
then all
the rest, how come I prefered DOS? An OS cannot be "objectivelly easy to use".
The commonly held opnion seems to be that Windows/MacOS is user friendly, while the
rest are
for expoerts only. I couldn't disagree more.
/ Peter Schuller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wyse-60 emulation / help
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:30:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a way to emulate wyse60?
> I've tried TERM=wy-60 in the env settings but it doesnt seem work when I
> telnet to a Wyse-60 emulated machine.
>
> Any suggestions?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I'm not sure that I completely understand your question, but I'll try.
Did you check to see if you have a termcap (etc/termcap) and/or a terminfo
entry for "wy-60"?
Also you need to enter: export TERM=wy-60
Otherwise the TERM env variable will not be carried to the telenet program.
Fred
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From: "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: working with a number of ISPs
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:35:15 -0500
Umm, resolve.conf lists DNS servers. You can list any DNS server you want
in there. Regardless of what ISP you dial up to. You can run a nameserver
and have it point to yourself. Nobody bothers to check that DNS lookups are
comeing from somebody who's paying money.
Chris Deever wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:57:17 +0200, Yaakov Yaari
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>How fo I configure my resolv.conf to support more then one ISP?
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From: "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:40:11 -0500
Interesting point.
telnet tends to eat characters types between the connect and some period of
time after that. It's probably so that people can't do just what you're
saying, auto login or write a script to hack a login. As such, there's no
good way around it short of writing a program or perl script or something
like that.
Chris Severn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The short question is :
>
>How would I send a file to a port on a remote machine from a script file
>?
>I'm looking for something very similar to
>telnet www.iinet.net.au 80 < thefile
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Online with Linux
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:48:01 GMT
I have a USR Sportster V.90 external on com 1. the modem does not connect,
nothing happens, I use the propper Comport etc , Is there something special I
have not done or is it something basic error (that we new linux users always
do) that first can be checked, well in short terms , please give me some basic
stuff to check, so that I will be able to connect to Internet eaven from
linux!
I am running Redhat 5.2 X-Windows, If you need more information please let me
know.
best regards: Tommy
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From: Qkev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: ip-masquerading
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:56:47 GMT
Christopher wrote:
>
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 <--this
> command fails
> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0
>
> I get the error message
> ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument
> The only way I can get ip-forwarding to work is to type
> ipfwadm -F -p masquerade
Too bad there no examples for many possible situations using ipfwadm
rules eh...
You might wanna try replacing that 24 with 16... Otherwise it's just
like the docs
say eh... Wait till you wanna run an ftp server on your machine he he..
(email me if anyone has an answer to this one... using serv-u)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2/NIS/netgroups
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:18:39 GMT
Hi Thorsten,
>
> My name is Thorsten, not Thomas ;-)
My bad :(
>
> Sorry that I haven't answerd, I have lost some mail by my move to a new city.
>
> This is a FAQ and I should add it to the NIS-Howto. Or even better, RedHat
should
> fix it. Change your PAM configuration to use NOT use pam_pwdb, but
pam_unix_auth.
> Read the Section in the NIS-Howto about PAM, NIS+ and login about that.
Already did:
[root@socrates pam.d]# pwd
/etc/pam.d
[root@socrates pam.d]# grep pwdb *
> Use only compat, not files. Read man nsswitch
Tried that as well.
>
> > passwd_compat: nis
> > group_compat: nis
>
> > netgroup: nis
>
> This is correct.
>
[...]
> If +user works, but not +@netgroup, you haven't removed pam_pwdb from all
places.
> This is a typcally pam_pwdb problem.
Well, as you can see from above, I did replace all pam_pwdb modules.
Do you want me to send you the content of all (or some) of the /etc/pam.d
directory ?
> > Does anyone have a working solution, that allows the use of +@netgroups or
> > -@netgroups , in order to have a selective authentication method to the
> > NIS client in question ?
>
> Does all 3 netgroup maps exists and readable ? I hope you doesn't use
> shadow over NIS ? And haven't configured ypserv to use port auth ?
All 3 maps exist, netgroup.byuser , netgroup.byhost and netgroup. Ypserv
is not configured to do port auth AFAIK, it's the standard configuration
on both master and slaves.
Any more ideas ?
--Ariel
>
> Thorsten
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.pages.de/~kukuk/
> SuSE GmbH Tel: +49-911-74053-197 Fax: +49-911-7417755
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
>
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From: Ed Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Etherexpress problem: CU wedged, ... resetting
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:00:46 -0500
Keith Albin wrote:
> I've just installed Red Hat Linux 5.1 on an AMD 486-120 VESA computer which
> uses an Intel Etherexpress 16 network card. I used io=0x310 irq=10
> settings -- the system finds the card and loads, but sends the following
> error message:
>
> eth0: CU wedged, status 0240 0000, resetting...
>
You might want to try getting the most recent module for this card.
Some cards work fine and others don't. I have encountered this problem
with this card and it seems very random. Personally I just went with
NE2000 clone cards for ISA systems. Even the cheapest ones from
computer shows seem to work fine. For PCi systems I find cards using Tulip
chips very easy to use. Of course i can get DEC 2114 cards for $25 so the
choice is easy.
Ed lawson
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From: "Jeff Lapsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba Issues
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:01:26 -0600
>From all that I have read, it should be EASY to at least be able to see a
Samba server from a win95/NT client. BUT, when I browse from 95/NT I cannot
see the Linux box... nor can I FIND it.
I can ping and FTP though.
NT is setup as a primary domain controller, and the DHCP server. What could
I be doing wrong here?
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: Qkev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: port forwarding on localhost
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:05:49 GMT
Mark L Melville wrote:
>
> i have an ftp server running on a masq'd network... since the ftp server
> does not have an externally addressable ip, i forward a port it.
> however, i'd like to still be able to ftp to the standard port from
> within the network... i've set up inetd to fire up two different ftp
I'm trying to get my machine to forward packets from extip port 5000 to
localnetip port 5000. So I can run Serv-u on my win96 machine... I've
tried
to understand the commands.. but I can't seem to figure it out.
I would love to know how you did this.
Your email isn't working btw... not for me at this time anyway...
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From: pfrets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting via M$ Proxy Server/Firewall
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:25:41 -0600
Jaco Kr�ger wrote:
> Our company switched to an NT machine to serve as a gateway to the
> internet.
> I can communicate perfectly inside our internal network, as well as on
> the external (when I'm wired up outside the gateway), but I cannot get
> through the Micro$oft gateway...
>
> I've been told that it is the MS system that refuses to let any other OS
> through.. (dunno..)
> Anybody know how to fool the NT system into letting my linux box speak
> to the outside world?
>
> Jaco
Your M$ administrator will have to set up permissions for the "guest" user
to get through. The MS proxy uses domain ID's to accept/deny use of the
proxy. Any OS below win95/nt4 has to use this method, I believe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IP Masquerading ... help !!
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:31:57 GMT
I have set up IP Masquerading on my machine, but my client machines can't ping
to the outside world.
Some questions: it says in the HOWTO that I should 'install the modules'. How
do I do this? Is it sufficient just to type 'make modules' and 'make
install_modules' in an xterm after compiling the kernel? Also, do I type the
above before or after 'make zdisk'?
Also, what do I have to add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to get (for exampe) Netscape
to access the Internet?
Thanks in advance ... :-)
J.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjohn007)
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading ... help !!
Date: 15 Jan 1999 22:28:39 GMT
U dont need to nistall modules if you compiled it into the kernel. make sure on
the machines that u are trying to access the net from have the linux box
installed as the gateway. this is done control panel -> network -> tcp/ip
also edit ur /etc/sysconfig/network to say
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
this is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S192.168.1.0/24 -D0.0.0.0/0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0
all this belongs to a RH system, but it should be the same.
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From: "Robert H. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Intermediate to Advanced Linux Networking Book???
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:09:05 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes - I understand what you are going thru. Most of the books out there
(like most operating systems <please don't flame me>) are not all things
to all people. I did find the 'Linux Networking Toolkit' book from IDG
books to be a great start for me getting my home brew network going.
Along with some info from www.samba.org,
www.control-escape.com/lx-samba.html
and www.irt.com and of course the HOWTO web site.
Hope this helps
Rob T
Greg Newberry wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to find a good networking book for Linux. Something that
> covers IP masquerading, routing, building firewalls, Samba, and WWW
> stuff. Maybe you know of several books that each cover some of the
> topics expertly. I'd like to hear of them all.
>
> Please also email me.
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:29:17 -0500
As in, you don't want ANY authentication? One hopes this is on a local
private network or not connected at all.
Look in your inetd.conf, do a find on telnet, and the last thing on that
line is the program to run when you get a telnet connection in. Instead of
having it run in.telnetd, try running a shell. Never tried it myself, but
that sounds about right.
That will get your telnets to run a shell with no login, to get your local
console do to that, lets see...
This ones beyond top of my head info, but here's where to start looking.
Init (see /etc/inittab) fires off getty terminals. getty once it gets a
login name calls login. If you're okay with hitting enter, and not getting a
shell right away, you can probably get getty to call shell instead of login.
There may be a way to get getty to just drop to a shell, but getty is used
to determine console information, so I don't know about that. But it's
something along those lines. If you can't get getty to do it, find something
to replace getty. and have inittab call it.
David Moore wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Does anyone know of a way to have telnet open. I dont want a login.
>When you telnet to the linux box your in. Can I specify a TCP port
>open?
>Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scallica)
Subject: Ethernet connection not working
Date: 17 Jan 1999 00:47:36 GMT
Hi,
I am using Redhat 5.2 with a 3com 509 card. I can't seem to get a connection
going. Linux has detected the card just fine. I know all my network
information.
The card works fine in Win 95. When I try to use DHCP in Linux, it fails. When
I set it on manual it fails too. I keep getting a message that says something
like:
eth0: transfer timed out, TX FIFO 1238
Any suggestions? Thank You.
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From: Jason A Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Revenge of NT?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:18:14 -0500
Got an odd kind of problem here, so I'll give a short version and a long
version.
Short: re-installing RedHat 5.2 (Linux kernel 2.0.36) on a Dell P2 400
with 8 GB drive. The network card appears to be a 3Com 3c905B Cyclone.
During setup, I re-entered all the relevant numbers--IP, gateway,
etc...--just like the first installation. My boot-up doesn't give me any
obvious error messages, but I absolutely cannot see my network. Pinging
or telnetting just gives me "unknown host" or "host name lookup failure"
error messages. Don't know where to get a handle on this; hardware
connections look okay, and the config files I've checked look pretty
much like they did before. Any ideas?
(by the by, I've checked dmesg, host.conf,
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, /etc/hosts, /etc/inittab,
/etc/inet.conf, /etc/services, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, and
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network. They all <i>look</i> okay, but I'm not sure I
would recognize a misconfiguration at first glance.)
Long: I started this new job and sat down to a Dell pre-configured P2
400, 8GB, 256MB RAM, Windows NT Workstation 4.0. I then got to install
Linux on it, going the defrag/fips/ install route. I installed RedHat
5.2 and had a few problems. One, I had a Diamond Fire 1000GL card and
needed XFree86 3.3.3; two, my network card wasn't responding (had an
error that I neglected to write down--drat!--that produced lots of
repeating lines of something like "eth0-service not responding--FFFF
0000 ....); three, I was brand-new to Linux and had no idea what I was
doing. The odd part is that once I found the XFree 3.3.3 and installed
it, my networking problem went away! No error messages, no problems
connecting either in console mode or X, no problems at all.
Yesterday I got the go-ahead to shove Windows off the machine and go
entirely to Linux. I backed up the Windows stuff, a little of the Linux
(I hadn't time to produce very much yet), re-partitioned the silly
thing, and re-installed. The installation was slightly different
(different packages and the like), but the network configuration
questions were the same, and I worked from the same piece of paper. Now
I have this little problem....
The upshot of this is: why did (roughly) the same Linux network
configuration work yesterday (when WinNT was hibernating on the same
disk) and decide to go belly-up today? I don't <i>think</i> I was
taking advantage of the WinNT configuration in any way, so why should it
matter that it's gone?
I've been reading like mad, trying to figure out what's going on. Any
and all diagnoses are welcome. I <b>do</b> have a hunch; I might have a
Plug-n-Pray difficulty. If so, though, I don't quite know what to do
about it yet (hinting at a plea for a web link!) If not that, perhaps I
did do something differently and messed up my configuration, or maybe
it's something that a updated driver could fix. I know just about
enough to know what the problem is but not enough to fix it. I
appreciate, in advance, your help (and patience if you've read this
whole thing!)
Cheers,
Jason Fletcher
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