Linux-Networking Digest #910, Volume #9 Sun, 17 Jan 99 08:14:36 EST
Contents:
tcp wrappers - help with troubleshooting? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PORT MAPPING ("Andrew Taylor")
IP Masquerading Problem with 2.2 pre7 (Ben)
Re: lpd configuration problem (Sai Manohar Gopisetty)
Re: Linksys Ethernet (Benjohn007)
DHCP problems in RH linux 5.2 (William O'Neal)
Re: newbie: working with a number of ISPs (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port (Leslie Mikesell)
When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise... (Enno Middelberg)
Re: Linux "Proxy" Server for win95/98 Inet Access (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: sendmail (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: securing a linux box (David Augros)
Very tough PPP problem (LCP timeouts) (Jim Shaver)
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
(Allan Olesen)
Re: need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN (Allan Olesen)
Re: two network cards (Tracy Perry)
Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port (Chris Severn)
Re: [Q] : DNS problem ? (David Heinzinger)
Re: ATT worldnet ??? PPP (Jim Finney)
Re: Help with Ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tcp wrappers - help with troubleshooting?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:33:50 GMT
what is spawn? Where does it come from? I hate using things I don't know,
especially for something related to security.
TIA
d.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Use spawn in there. For example something along these lines.
>
> in.fingerd : ALL : spawn (/usr/sbin/traceroute %h | \
> mail -s "Finger Trace Results" root) &
>
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From: "Andrew Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PORT MAPPING
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:22:35 -0000
Presuming you aren't running any firewall you should be ok just to use the
default ports ?
Try telnetting into the port and see what happens.
SMTP 25
POP3 110
Andy
Matt Chipman wrote in message <77shpp$gh8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all ...
>
>my Linux system gets better and better with the help of this group and to
>the detriment of my marriage :)
>
>I am running red hat 5.1 and apache and need to map a few ports so my icq
>will work on the win95 machine and the mail and news will work oon the same
>machine, through the apache proxy.
>
>I know linux has those ports reserved but i think apache is stoping the
data
>going through the pop3 and smtp ports.
>
>How do i set things up so i can just point my smtp and pop3 mail program on
>the win95 machine to the Linux machine (which has the net connection ) and
>send and recieve mail???
>
>
>any help appreciated.
>
>thanks
>
>Matt Chipman
>
>
>
>
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP Masquerading Problem with 2.2 pre7
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:04:05 +0100
Hello all.
I'm trying to run IP masquerading on linux with an isdn connection.
I can't dial with with kernel 2.0.36 but it works well with 2.1.129
until 2.2 pre7.
The problem: at startup my eth0 card is configured correctly with 2.0.36
but
is _not_ with 2.2 pre7. I got the following error message:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again
netmask: Host name lookup failure
SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again
Under 2.0.36 no problem with the card (a DEC tulip 10baseT).
The network is working well with 2.2 pre7 (pinging, ftping,...).
Any help is welcome (bendem at bigfoot dot com).
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From: Sai Manohar Gopisetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpd configuration problem
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:29:48 +0000
Sai Manohar Gopisetty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running RH 5.2 on my computer and I'm having problems sending print
> jobs to a remote printer. Apparently my lpd is not appending the
> hostname to the configuration and data files, so the lpd on the
> printserver is not processing the requests. Here is the log from the
> printserve's syslog:
>
> %Jan 5 16:24:41 printserve syslog: /usr/local/lib/lpd: ap_gradcol-
> Printjob:
> control file origin 'Aa02487' and H entry 'dharma.princeton.edu' do not
> match
> at Tue Jan 5 16:24:41 1999
>
> The sysadmin sent his opinion on this:
>
> "The 'H' entry is one of the entry's inside the control file, indicating
>
> the host name that sent the file. The "control file origin" is based
> on the filename for the controlfile and datafile; chances are your lpd
> is not building those filenames to properly include the hostname. So
> if the control file 'H' entry says "myhostname" the files might be
> named 'dfAa03142myhostname' and 'cfAa03142mythostname'.
>
> If you want to print, you'll need to reconfigure/fix your lpd."
>
> So, HOW do I reconfigure my lpd? There is nothing in the man pages that
> talks about any configuration file.
>
> Thanks for your help.I
>
> Sai.
Please ignore the request; I found a locally configured lpr.
Sai.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjohn007)
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet
Date: 16 Jan 1999 19:28:10 GMT
Linksys cards work FINE with linux
get the IO address and the IRQ of the card using any of the utlity disks that
came with the card. U need these to get them to work(if linux doesnt recognize
it automatically)
i have a linksys ether 16 card working fine
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:22:18 -0800
From: William O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP problems in RH linux 5.2
i just installed RH linux 5.2 and everything worked great. DHCP passed
and i was able to access the Internet. i was a happy man...until i
rebooted my machine.
after the reboot i started seeing these error messages...
Using DHCP for eth0 ... failed
eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register ffff.
eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status ffff. Temporarily disabling
functions
(7800)
why would DHCP work after the initial install then subsequently fail?
and does anyone have any suggestions? i've been pouring the DHCP
mini-howto and none of the suggestions there have helped.
thanks,
wil
--
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"Cause the world doesn't need any more humble Negroes."
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: working with a number of ISPs
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:32:42 +0100
You know what the great thing is with internet???? It is one big
network, so it doesn't matter whom's DNS servers you use. So any
DNS server will do. What good be a good idea is to set the primary
DNS of one provider and the primary DNS of another provider.
But if you jsut want to use oth DNS servers of a provider it is good
asswell
Raymond
Yaakov Yaari wrote:
> How fo I configure my resolv.conf to support more then one ISP?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Yaakov
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port
Date: 16 Jan 1999 13:40:11 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Severn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I'm looking for something very similar to
>> >telnet www.iinet.net.au 80 < thefile
>> >
>
>Is there another program like telnet I can use which would work ? Is
>there perhaps a sample program using sockets which I could modify to do
>what I want ? I'm a good C programmer, but have never used sockets, or
>done much TCP/IP before, so it's easier with a sample program than doing
>it from scratch from man pages. Should I look at the source code for
>telnet, or a web browser, or ftp or something ?
Kermit from http://www.columbia.edu/kermit has a scripting language
that can run over telnet.
Les Mikesell
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From: Enno Middelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:28:56 +0100
Hi,
I've a little problem with Linux and my modem: When I'm online and eg
telnetting to another machine, EACH letter I type makes the hard drive
making some noise. And compared to M$Windows, the harddrive is running
much more during surfing or networking under Linux. Does anybody know
where I can change this???
thanx
Enno Middelberg
Please feel free to mail answers directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm
a rare guest here. Thank you!!!
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux "Proxy" Server for win95/98 Inet Access
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:39:58 +0100
First of all you should enable IP on your WIndows clients. Linux can only do
inet connection with IP. Since it doesn't translate IPX to IP very easy.
Then yes you should enable masq firewall. This you can use for none HTTP and
FTP requests. Line IRC, ICQ whatever. But to enable higher HTTP and FTP
throughput I advice you to install squid. This is a HTTP and FTP proxy and it
caches already used site localy on your Linux its HDD. This save bandwith.
Setting up 2 modem connections will not increase the speed drastically. I tried
this with NT 2 years ago, but it only helped about 3 of 5%. I advice you to get
a good and a bit more expensive provider for commercial use. And not AOL.
We use this setup (except that we use a small Shiva Accessport router) for
connection and masq. ) We also serve about 34 clients including email!!!
Raymond
Ashley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been asked to figure out a way that mulitple computers on a lan can
> access the internet. I have mucked around with linux a little bit before so
> I thought might be the best way to go (due to flexability).
>
> There are:
>
> 30+ computers on a LAN with hub and IPX network all ready in place for
> central database access.
>
> Of these there are 8 (win95/98) that need internet access. These are
> already hooked up to the hub. These do not need IPX access but the
> cables/NICs/hubs are all setup.
>
> I was reading through the various HOWTO's on using SOCKS proxy server to act
> as a firewall/router for the access to the net. The linux box would have 1
> modem *(more on this later) and 1 ethernet card hooked up to the hub and
> thus all the computers.
>
> With SOCKS proxy server I can permit and deny certain machines access which
> is good.
>
> My questions are...
>
> 1. is this the best way to go about it (I can't change the hub IPX network
> config) to go about it (ala wingate type setup)..
>
> 2. If it is... is it possible to have 2 modem and inet accounts to increase
> the speed. My ISP doesn't support EQL. I know that there is a windows
> program that can do it, Midcore Modem Teaming, is it possible on the linux
> machine?
>
> Thank You for your time...
>
> Ashley
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:43:56 +0100
Sendmail will check if the domain name of a email.
If it sees that this mail belongs to it's own domain and you can tell sendmail on
wich domain it is by setting
Cwdomain.com
and
Dj$w.domain.com
And then it delivers locally. If the domain behind the @ is deifferent then it's
Cw and Dj rules he will send it to a smarthost (if configured) or deliver this
mail himselve.
Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear all,
> I know little about sendmail. I installed a default configuration file
> sendmail.cf in /etc.
> I use a ppp connection to my ISP.
> I want sendmail to distinguish between the local mails(mails to other users in
> the my machine) and external mails(which should go through the SMTP server
> provided by my ISP. How can I do it or is it possible to do it at all?
>
> Any help is welcome.
> Thanks
>
> Sudip
>
> PS. if you could pls. send an answer by email also at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: David Augros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: securing a linux box
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:07:20 -0500
The first thing you should do is take a look at /etc/inetd.conf, and hash out
everything you don't need (read USE on a regular basis). Then do a 'killall
-HUP inetd'. Also, do a 'netstat -aeo' to see what you have running. If you
have X or xdm listening for connections (telltale sign is a listen on port 177)
then you should definitely disable that unless you run Xapps remotely. NFS is
another whore you can do without. You should also consider replacing telnet
with ssh. Cops and (cough) SATAN are good tools that look for common security
holes, run them against yourself to see if you are vulnerable. Also, Crack5 is
a great tool for checking your system for weak passwords. Basically, don't run
services that you don't need, and keep an eye on the logs for the services that
you do run, and many security breaches will not happen, but if they do, you will
know about it reasonably soon so that you can do something about it. If you run
only the latest Apache and ssh, and read /var/log/httpd regularly, you should be
fairly safe.
dave
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:24:36 -0800
From: Jim Shaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Very tough PPP problem (LCP timeouts)
I have been working on this for 3 days straight and still no luck.
Basically, I was connecting to my ISP just fine for months, and all of a
sudden (in the past 3-4 days) I cannot get online. If you could please
e-mail me at ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) as well as a posted reply that
would be very helpful. I REALLY don't want to have to go back to using
Windows, but 95% of the stuff I use my computer for is Internet related
so I need PPP to work!
1) I'm using RedHat 5.1 (pppd 2.3.3) and the ppp-go script.
2) I can login fine, I know there is nothing wrong with my chat script,
I've been through the login a billion times.
3) My ISP swears they have not changed anything. Their login machine is
a Linux box and they do not use PAP, CHAP or MS-CHAP.
4) I have isolated the problem down to one thing: LCP time outs. PPPD
on my machine sends LCP Configure-Requests and occasionally I get a
reply, but eventually it times out and PPP never gets started.
5) I talked to some Linux gurus on EFnet's #linux and #linuxhelp. One
guy said he had the same thing but it went away after a couple days,
but most seem to agree it is something on my ISP's end.
6) Yes, I've read the PPP Howto and FAQ several times. I have 'passive'
and 'lcp-max-configure 60' in my /etc/ppp/options file now. And I've
even tried 'lcp-restart n' where n was 3,6,12 etc. seconds.
7) Here is my pppd debug file showing my most successful attempt so far:
--Jan 16 00:46:20 localhost pppd[296]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: timeout set to 10 seconds
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: abort on (ERROR)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: abort on (BUSY)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: report (CARRIER)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: report (CONNECT)
Jan 16 00:46:21 localhost chat[298]: send (AT\&FW1H0^M)
Jan 16 00:46:22 localhost chat[298]: expect (OK)
Jan 16 00:46:30 localhost chat[298]:
Jan 16 00:46:30 localhost chat[298]: OK
Jan 16 00:46:30 localhost chat[298]: -- got it
Jan 16 00:46:30 localhost chat[298]: send (atdt3414572^M)
Jan 16 00:46:31 localhost chat[298]: timeout set to 240 seconds
Jan 16 00:46:31 localhost chat[298]: expect (CONNECT)
Jan 16 00:46:31 localhost chat[298]: ^M
Jan 16 00:47:00 localhost chat[298]: atdt3414572^M^M
Jan 16 00:47:00 localhost chat[298]: CONNECT
Jan 16 00:47:00 localhost chat[298]: -- got it
Jan 16 00:47:00 localhost chat[298]: send (^M)
Jan 16 00:47:00 localhost chat[298]: expect (ogin:)
Jan 16 00:47:10 localhost chat[298]: 115200^M
Jan 16 00:47:20 localhost chat[298]: ^M
Jan 16 00:47:20 localhost chat[298]: ^M
Jan 16 00:47:30 localhost chat[298]: ContiNet login:
Jan 16 00:47:30 localhost chat[298]: -- got it
Jan 16 00:47:30 localhost chat[298]: send (shaverj^M)
Jan 16 00:47:31 localhost chat[298]: expect (ssword:)
Jan 16 00:47:31 localhost chat[298]: ^M
Jan 16 00:47:50 localhost chat[298]: ContiNet login:shaverj^M
Jan 16 00:48:00 localhost chat[298]: Password:
Jan 16 00:48:00 localhost chat[298]: -- got it
Jan 16 00:48:00 localhost chat[298]: send (my-password^M)
Jan 16 00:48:01 localhost pppd[296]: Serial connection established.
Jan 16 00:48:10 localhost pppd[296]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 16 00:48:10 localhost pppd[296]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Jan 16 00:48:10 localhost pppd[296]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic
0xffff001e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 16 00:48:41 localhost last message repeated 10 times
Jan 16 00:49:20 localhost last message repeated 13 times
Jan 16 00:49:20 localhost pppd[296]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x974a010b> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 16 00:49:20 localhost pppd[296]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x974a010b> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 16 00:49:23 localhost pppd[296]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic
0xffff001e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 16 00:49:38 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jan 16 00:49:40 localhost pppd[296]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jan 16 00:49:40 localhost pppd[296]: Modem hangup
Jan 16 00:49:40 localhost pppd[296]: Connection terminated.
Jan 16 00:49:41 localhost pppd[296]: Exit.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan Olesen)
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?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>*CAN* you grep in windows?
Just for the record: This posting is not a MS
defense/advocacy/criticism. I just want to eliminate the guessing
here.
Sorry for my Linux ignorance. My experience with Linux is one week
old, so I may have misunderstood the purpose of grep. Grep is the
function that can search several files for a text string, right?
You can do that in W95 too. It is part of the standard built-in file
search function, which can search for file names, sizes, dates and
text strings. But it cannot replace text strings (don't know if Linux
grep can), and it cannot be used from a prompt instead of GUI (suppose
that Linux grep can).
And Word97 docs (example used in another part of this thread) can be
searched too, if you have Word97 installed.
--
Allan Olesen
"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan Olesen)
Subject: Re: need help with redhat5.2 and ISDN
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:58:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ok just set up redhat 5.2 i first set up my 28.8 modem to gain net access,
>used the linuxconf to do this ( as it was written in the instalation guide)
>it dialed and connected, and i was able to ping and surf. amazed after
>reading all the problems others had in 2 min on the net. well so now i want
>to connect my isdn up, i just changed the init string for my modem for
>multilink and it dial both lines and seeed to be connected, but no ping.
>called my isp they were of help as much as posible but havent been able to
>resolve this problem. Fro the isp they say i was connected had a ip# but was
>unable to ping me.
I had the same problem with an Zyxel OmniNet+. I found two alternative
solutions:
1. Change the initstring, so the OmniNet uses V.120 instead of PPP.
2. Add "asyncmap 0" to /etc/ppp/options
Solution 1 will probably give you a very slow connection, and may
depend on your ISP's V.120 support, so you may prefer solution 2.
--
Allan Olesen
"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
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From: Tracy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two network cards
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:59:27 GMT
steve wrote:
>
> I am trying to get two network cards running in my box but the second card
> is not working gives error 3c509.0 io not found
^
If the hiighlighted is correct (the .0) then you are using the numeric
"0" and not the lowercase O (o).
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From: Chris Severn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sending a file to a remote machine's port
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 03:47:54 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Severn wrote:
> Stu wrote:
> > 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
> > >
[snip questions about why telnet apparently won't accept any input at
all from a pipe]
> So, is there something else about telnet which I need to know ? Like it
> can detect where stdin is coming from, and not allow it unless it's from
> a normal login ?
[snip]
OK, so I'm replying to my own post, but I've just fixed my problem.
If anyone has an answer to why my previous attempt didn't work though,
I'd still be very interested.
I looked though a sample sockets program, and found that it actually is
very easy. I just wrote a "C" program which opens up a socket at the
desired site and port, and proceeds to read and write whatever data I
like, without using telnet.
I posted the program to my website http://www.iinet.net.au/~severn
Just in case anyone's interested.
Chris Severn.
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From: David Heinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] : DNS problem ?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:24:28 -0600
I have a similar problem with ISDN. I dial connect but that is it.
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.
--
Dave.
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From: Jim Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATT worldnet ??? PPP
Date: 16 Jan 1999 20:22:33 GMT
Jim,
I am using Worldnet with RedHat5.1. Be sure you are signing in correctly
once the Worldnet modem answers your call. Worldnet/Windows95-98 encrypts
your login and password so it is not what you type in. It you have
successfully loaded the Worldnet Windows software and logged in using
Windows95 or 98, your encrypted login and password are contained in a file
called account.txt somewhere under the Windows directory. Find and view
that file and use that login and password to login via your linux box. It
should work OK.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Good luck,
Jim....
Jim Bisnett wrote:
> I just moved back to the states and have an ATT worldnet account. I am
> having problems connecting with linux. I can get the phone to dial, and
> then have ATT pickup but from there the rest never correctly finishs.
> Has anyone had any success with ATT worldnet. Do they us PAP or CHAP? Do
> they do anything different than normal? I am using REDHAT 5.1.
>
> Jim
--
Jim Finney
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Help with Ethernet card
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:36:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I bought a couple of encore Ethernet card. It works under windows nt but is
> > not working under Redhat Linux 5.2 I have checked the FAQ for supported
> > hardware and it is not listed in it. I am willing to buy a new one.. can
> > someone suggest me which card/brand works well under linux?
>
> 3Com cards are generally well-supported. I'm using an el-cheapo
> NE2000-compat card and have no problems whatsoever. If your card
> supports NE2000, it should be usable in Linux in NE2000 mode.
>
Linksys cards can be problematic. The cards are programable via software and
come set as PNP. You have to disable the PNP and set the IRQ, etc. manually.
This is supposed to work by running the setup utility in DOS. Even this
doens't always pan out a advertised. I was unable to get in straight from
DOS on two cards but managed to get in and set them through Win95. Once you
set the parameters the card can be run under the target OS without further
ado.
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