Linux-Networking Digest #243, Volume #10 Thu, 18 Feb 99 19:13:40 EST
Contents:
Can't get Reverse Lookup Zones to Load!!!! ("SWBELL NEWS")
Kernel 2.2.1:IPCHAINS:IPPORTFW:IP port forwarding: IP Masq: ipmasqadm (Kevin Dick)
Re: Help with Appletalk (Constantine Karbaliotis)
Re: Simple routing problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Running diald with a PAP provider ("K.A. Steensma")
problem networking ("Remco Ploeg")
Problem with collisions when accessing Linux machine ("Michael Urban")
Re: Anyone successfully used Addtron ISA NIC? (Duncan Simpson)
diald AND dialmon (Erik Verhagen)
Cable Modem problems (Fafhrd)
Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix [LONG] (Steven M. Scotten)
Re: PPP Stalling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X.25 Gateway (Heinz Gerharz)
Re: POP3 Daemon for Linux? ("Cameron Spitzer")
IP Masqerading and NetBIOS ("Greg Ogburn")
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Ken)
Re: Linux printing services for AS/400 (Peter Baars)
Re: A dual homed system, routing, dhcpcd (Bill Anderson)
Re: Subject: Active server pages and Apache running on linux (Bill Anderson)
Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix [LONG] (Bill Anderson)
Re: Whats the difference between Proxy and DHCP? (Luca Filipozzi)
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From: "SWBELL NEWS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get Reverse Lookup Zones to Load!!!!
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:42:30 -0600
Hi all,
Our previous DNS LINUX Server (Linux 4x) worked fine with loading the
reverse lookup zones. But as soon as we upgraded it to 5.2 they WOULD NOT
load. At first we could not figure out why the regular zones would not load
also until
we figured out it uses named.conf instead of named.boot
with the new 5.2 ver. We looked in the /var/log/messages file to see why
the reverse zones won't load but have gotten NO where. We are having a T1
line put in soon and would like to be the Primary DNS for our CO. and use
our ISP's DNS as a secondary Zone to transfer these recorders. Is there
something specfic we need to look for???? Does anyone have a sample reverse
lookup zone that WORKS that we could compare to see if were making a USER
ERROR in the typing?????? Please... I would be very happy.
Thanks Nate
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From: Kevin Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.2.1:IPCHAINS:IPPORTFW:IP port forwarding: IP Masq: ipmasqadm
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:16:03 -0600
Thanks to a kind soul from this forum (gweeks) we've just saved $5000 on
new firewall software.
Remember to compile Kernel 2.2.1 with the experimental options under
"Code maturity level options" and the you will have access to the IP
port forwarding options under "Networking options".
Only then can your IP port forward work. Maybe you all know this, and
I'm slow. Hope this helps someone besides me. (I can't wait for you to
pick this up on Dejanews.)
:-)
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From: Constantine Karbaliotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Appletalk
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:17:03 -0500
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You have to turn on file sharing on your Mac LC; select the folder (or hard disk,
probably you just want to share a folder) and then go to the file menu and choose
Sharing. If you haven't turned on file sharing, it will ask you to do this first.
Then select the folder again, and enable sharing from the box that comes up; you may
choose to pass on the sharing characteristic to sub-folders. After file sharing is
on, you should be able to see the folder as a networked drive from your linux
server, but I am new to linux and can't help you with config on that side--though I
am interested in your experience with atalk, as I am trying to set up a 68K Mac with
68KLinux to use as a file server. How difficult is it to set up? Any pointers?
David Murray wrote:
> I just got a Mac LC-III running system 7.5.5 and want to be able to share
> files with my Linux server (Slackware 3.4) and I have tried to set it up
> without much luck. I compiled it into the kernel and I download the atalk
> package. I get the atalkd and other resident thigns running but still
> don't see anything on the mac..
> It is possible that I have no idea how to use networked drives in MacOS.
> I am assuming I go to the chooser and there should be a list of available
> servers but the box is always empty. I know the network card works fine as
> I can telnet to the server, etc.
> Any help is appriciated, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --DavidM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Simple routing problem
Date: 18 Feb 1999 19:40:54 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Mickish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <br>I'm trying to use a Linux machine as a router to implement a second
I assume that you could get some more answers if you post in plain text
instead of HTML. there is no place for HTML on usenet..
--
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Linux 2.2.1 on an i586/64 MB | on Usenet. _\_v
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From: "K.A. Steensma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running diald with a PAP provider
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:42:15 GMT
I have to admit that it took hours and hours in trying to get PAP
authenication working. I finally had to contact someone who said that
using 'linuxconf' (on a RH 5.2) is a bunch easier. So now that I have
that working ( I call up the link by typing 'usernetctl ifcft-ppp0 up'),
I need to get diald working. Diald has been working fine (on my old ISP
that used prompted sign-on), but converting this setup over to PAP has
not been easy. I have tried making a 'real' simple 'connect' script,
but I have not suceeded. I figured that reading through the old
newgroup messages (at http://www.dejanews.com) would answer my
questions. But it seems that nobody has give a 'plain' enough answer
that I could understand.
I get the idea that I've made things too complicated, but I guess I need
someone to lead me toward the correct answer. TIA Keith
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From: "Remco Ploeg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem networking
Date: 18 Feb 1999 21:07:35 GMT
Hello,
I have redhat 5.2 and i have a network, if have installed everything, also i
have configured network but if I ping in win95 i see nothing also if I ping
with linux to win95 i get no answer. What is wrong. My win95 computer works,
it's connected to a other network (so i knowes that win95 works).
Thank you,
Remco Ploeg
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From: "Michael Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with collisions when accessing Linux machine
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 03:18:59 +0100
Hi,
I have a small net with a Linux server and two Win98 clients running
on 100Mb Ethernet. When I access Linux via Samba, I get very
poor throughput, typically not more than 3.3Mbit/sec and lots of collisions
happen. When the two Win machines communicate, speed is up to the max (can
see it on the hub) and when I ping the Linux machine with large packet
sizes, speed is also ok, without any collisions.
Anyone any idea?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone successfully used Addtron ISA NIC?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 01:08:41 GMT
In <7ad9hf$u4t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm trying to install RedHat via ftp. The network card I'm using is an ISA
>card made by Addtron, and is supposed to be NE2000 compatible. So when I'm
>going through the installation process, I can't get the card to be
>recognized. It worked fine according to the hardware diagnostic that came on
>the Addtron floppy disk. I've tried a bunch of different I/O's and IRQ's, and
>"autoprobe" as well as "specify". Has anyone had better luck than me with
>this card? What did you do? Thanks,
Me and my P II/350 had a simialr problem with answer ISA ethernet
card. Does it detect the card and then fail to find the IRQ? Do you
have a PnP BIOS? If so then try flipping the cards IRQ, which I set to
10, from "PnP/PCI" to "Legacy ISA". This fixed it in windows (3.11)
and Linux (2.2.1 but it should fix most other kernels). [Me and my 486
running Linux detected the card first time when I rebooted, but the
486 is a tad slower and showing signs of multiple lethal hardware
problems at the moment].
Nothing will get fixed before early in April because I will be the
other side of the pond pretending to do a spot of quantum computing.
Duncan (-:
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:27:19 +0100
From: Erik Verhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: diald AND dialmon
Does anyone know where I can get a solid documentation on diald AND
dialmon ? I am working on it for about 2 months now and I can not
understand what I am doing wrong ... How have I to configure dialmon to
bring the link up from another computer on the same network ?
two months to solve this problem and it still does not work ....
Erik Verhagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fafhrd)
Subject: Cable Modem problems
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:29:54 GMT
Greetings. I cannot seem to get my Com21 cablemodem to work with
linux. I have a static IP I was given, and ifconfig shows that my NIC
accepts that. My gateway is the main cablecos gate. Nothing else
really unusual in my routing tables nor ifconfig. I also have a win98
on my hub, which I've been using to aid me in troubleshooting. By
itself, it can access the network just fine. When I boot up the linux
machine, win98 gives me all sorts of IP conflict errors, which Im
assuming to mean everything is fine with linux, and it is able to
broadcast. So, I shut everything off, and boot just linux. No
connection.... No error messages either, the card looks fine, tables
look fine, just all pings timeout, anywhere except to myself. A
possible problem Ive been mulling over, is what I use as the gateway.
Is the cable modem the gateway, and if so what address would it have,
or is the router at the cablecos office my gateway? That address is
the standard x.x.0.1 I've switched cat cables around with windows,
wiggled cards, and more. No matter what I do, windows works fine and
linux doesnt. ( I realize I will need to proxy one of them later on,
but thats next weeks problem. This week is just getting linux to work
by itself).
Help greatly appreciated....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Scotten)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix [LONG]
Date: 18 Feb 1999 14:32:53 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Corliss) writes:
> Who's the smart ass? I agree with the previous poster--a great deal *can* be
> done, adhering to existing standards. And think of this, twit, you're
> screwing every developer out there every time you publish to the mass audience
> using proprietary crap. The standards would that much more pervasive if all
> developers demanded compliance. The proprietary nonsense is only useful for
> controlled environments, particularly when you know all browsers meet/are the
> corporate standard.
I think neither of the "all-or-nothing" positions in this argument are
even close to right. If you stick tight to the published standards
without any regard for existing implementation, you're going to end up
with web pages that don't work in *any* browser. Even the vaunted
Opera has it's share of deviations from the standard. It's an
important part of the craft of Web design to be aware of the foibles
and features of each browser, and to work with them rather than to
stick one's head in the sand and keep shouting "it conforms to the
spec" while the rest of the world is wondering what your site is
supposed to be about.
I have as little patience for self-appointed Standards Police as I do
for those with no regard for the standards.
So what does this have to do linux, redhat linux, kde, or networking
with linux?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP Stalling
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:37:17 GMT
Well today my ISP won't let me read news so I am using DejaNews.
I am only using the Linux box as a firewall. I don't run Samba on it.
I notice this problem when the WinDOS machines are trying to access the
net (I also boot my main machine into Linux and the problem happens then
as well). When this happens, even the firewall machine can't ping the
outside world, wverything internal seems just fine.
In article <7a9k4g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bob Glover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When it "stalls" are you on the firewall PC or the other PC's? Are they
> Windoze PC's? If so, I have a similar problem that I'm looking at.
>
> I have an annoying problem where my connection to a Windoze 95 box stops
> during a file copy to/from a Windoze share (using smbmount). I think it's
> netbios keep-alives. If I ping the Windoze PC, the link activates again.
> My point? Could it be a problem with the firewall box not sending out
> netbios keep-alives?
>
> Henry wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am using a Linux box (66 Mhz 486) based on Slakware 3.2, kernel
> >2.0.36, with PPP-2.3.5. In addition I am using ipautofw. This box is
> >used as a firewall/router for interfacing my other machines to my ISP.
> >The problem I am having is that sometimes the PPP stops receiving data
> >for a prolonged period of time (a couple of minutes).
> >
> >When this happens I usually see 2 receive errors reported by ifconfig
> >for the ppp connection. Also I won't be able to see the routing table
> >(using route or netstat -r). Then when the data starts flowing again I
> >will be able to list the routing table. If I ping someone else I will
> >see the transmit packet count for pppd increase but the receive count is
> >static.
> >
> >My questions are:
> > Has anyone else seen this type of problem?
> > What can I try, to prove that it is my problem or my ISP's problem?
> > (my ISP doesn't support Linux and I haven't asked them for help)
> >
> >Henry
>
>
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From: Heinz Gerharz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X.25 Gateway
Date: 18 Feb 1999 23:20:09 +0100
Hi,
does anybody have hints or knows solutions for the
following problem:
A linux-machine shall be used as a X.25 - TCP/IP-LAN Gateway.
The linux-machine is (of course) connected to the LAN.
Furthermore a X.25 Modem with 30 channels ist connected to
the linux-machine.
Now I'm searching for a damon (or something else) that
serves a connections out of the LAN into the X.25 network by
opening a X.25 channel and connecting the calling process to
it.
bye
Heinz
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: POP3 Daemon for Linux?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 22:37:17 GMT
In article <7ahrej$t99$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yeah, this took me a while too. Why in the *hell* doesn't that install by
>default? I spent two hours figuring out that I just had to install IMAP from
>the RedHat CD to get POP mail...
>
>In article <01be59bc$46d37720$cc34dea1@cbcgren091454>,
> "Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes it did. Look on your cd for an rpm called imap-something.rpm. That's
>> a pop2 pop3 and imap server all in one.
I tried that server. It's a pre-compiled IMAP-4.5BETA, I think.
The mailbox location is hard-coded /var/spool/mail/$USER .
I use Qmail, and my users' mailboxes are ~/.qmailbox .
(Or something like that.) /var/spool/mail/$USER is a security morass
(as is Sendmail) and I don't want to use it.
Tried the source RPM, and it doesn't build, for lack of certain unresolved
PAM-related symbols.
bin:~/mail/imap-4.5.BETA-> make slx EXTRALDFLAGS="-llibcrypt"
...
cc -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -O6 -DNFSKLUDGE `cat OSCFLAGS` -c osdep.c
osdep.c: In function `checkpw':
osdep.c:190: `PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED' undeclared (first use this function)
Any ideas?
Cameron
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From: "Greg Ogburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP Masqerading and NetBIOS
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:54:47 GMT
Configuration:
Router: Cheap 486, 2 NICs, RedHat 5.1, Cable Modem
Workstations: Coupla Macs and an Intel NT box.
Cable Modem is currently "half duplex", it uses an internal 33.6 modem to
communcate upstream. A CGI script allows the workstations to start and stop
the ppp0 i/f so that line can be used as for the fax machine.
Everything works except masquerading NetBIOS stuff across the router from NT
to NT boxes in another internet connected LAN. I am able to perform
lookups - the foreign PC's get into the NT machine's NetBios name cache.
(the foreign WINS server ends up showing the 192.168.x.x address for the NT
box though!) I can even mount drives. I can't, however, join the foreign
domain, which I need to do to authenticate to SQLServer. I get "Domain
Controller cannot be found" errors.
The masquerading rules don't exclude any ports. Do I need to explicitly
send those ports to the NT box? Does that mean I can only ever have one?
Any ideas?
+----------------------------------------------+
| Greg Ogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Sr. Engineer http://www.netcapitol.com |
| Net.Capitol, Inc. 202.737.2277x31 |
+----------------------------------------------+
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:07:08 -0800
From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Tom Metzger wrote:
>
> We started with tree names (hickory, ash, oak, chestnut) and have since
> moved on to Star Trek names on one of our domains (spock, data, crusher,
> worf, etc) and Disney names for our NT (ugh) machines (Bugs, Daffy,
> Warner).
When we brought up our company engineering LAN around 1989, my boss
wanted Yoda, so I just followed the Star Wars theme for everything else
and used characters and ships. There are enough minor characters, esp.
when you include books and comic books, to name a few hands of machines.
The office subnet (mostly NT) uses star names.
--
Ken
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.well.com/user/shiva/
http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi (Death to Spam!)
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From: Peter Baars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux printing services for AS/400
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:50:08 +0100
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Ian, What OS/400 is installed on the AS/400? I have an AS/400 with OS4.2
and then you can let the AS/400 do the tcp/ip printing, so no server is
needed (took some time to figure it out, that's true) else, I am afraid it
will be hard to do. I guess what you want to do is print to a device on the
AS/400. like P1 and then have it captured by a printserver? I have several
diffirent solutions, but there are a lot of woes!
Peter Baars
Ian Robertson wrote:
> Has anyone set up a linux box to behave as a print server to as/400. I
> have Redhat 5.1 installed and am communicating over Token ring to an
> AS/400.
>
> I get a telnet connection from the AS/400(It has some tcpip capability)
> to the linux box but rejects telnet to port 515 and and lpr requests
> from the AS/400.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> --
> Ian Robertson
> Tel +44 (0)1387 242485
> Fax +44 (0)1387 250995
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A dual homed system, routing, dhcpcd
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:52:19 +0000
Luca Filipozzi wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > > > I am wondering if a dual homed system can act as a router, when running
> > > > dhcpcd on a NIC that connects to an ADSL modem (Cisco 675) which in turn
> > > > is connected to an isp (bridged) while the other NIC has a static
> > > > private IP address? I now how to setup static addresses ,dhcpcd and
> > > > setup routing tables, but how do you route to a NIC that gets its
> > > > address dynamicly?
> > > > Any thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Joey Aguilera
> > > >
> > > >
> > > dhcpcd has a "-c <scriptname>" option. Whenever dhcpcd gets an ip
> > > address, it will call the script and will pass the following environment
> > > variables: IPADDR, ROUTER, etc., etc.
> > >
> > > In that script, you can write:
> > >
> > > route add default gw ${ROUTER}
> > >
> > > and voila.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, even though you will be assinged an address
> > > dynamically, your default gateway probably will not change since you
> > > remain on the same subnet. (unless the ISP has multiple gateways and
> > > wishes to spread the load... unlikely). In this case, you need to find
> > > out what the default gateway is and set the static route.
> >
> > Does you provider allow for multiple dynamically assigned IPs, or are
> > you planning on doing masquerading? If the former, why not plug the
> > modem into the hub and bypass the dual-homing aspect? I am running this
> > setup w/my ISP just fine, although I am trying to do some other
> > intersting stuff which is in an upcoming post.
> >
> > Bill Anderson
> >
> If you plug the cable or adsl modem directly into your hub, then you are
> unprotected. The whole point of putting a linux box between the Internet
> and the private network is to provide a firewall. It also happens to be
> really handy that the firewall can do masquerading or network address
> translation.
Not the whole point, as some people do it because they get *1* IP ;^)
I have not played much with dhcp and masq'ing/nat. Can you configure the
two in such a way that on the backside (lan) you run private #'s that
work with nat to get dynamic IPs on the front (wan) side?
If so, aside from multiple nics, how do you get mulitple dynamic IPs?
This would be quite useful.
Bill
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Subject: Active server pages and Apache running on linux
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:52:43 +0000
Bill Anderson wrote:
>
> There is a posting in comp.os.linux.announce for InstantISP.
> It is apparently in beta, so you may want to check it out.
> Bill
whoops. InstantASP
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix [LONG]
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:08:00 +0000
Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> Hokan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Fragmented "standard"? Are you aware that there are web standards?
> >http://www.w3.org/ develops and maintains them, with help from Netscape,
> >Microsoft and many others. The current, unfragmented HTML standard can
> >be found here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
>
> Why the need to be a smart ass??? Of course I know there is a standard. And
> if you are a real developer then you realize how realistic that standard is.
> You can't develop to that standard. You have to develop to the browsers on
> the market, unfortunately. So yes the standard is fragmented, the real-world
> (not fantasy world) standard that real web developers in a real working
> environment have to live with.
>
> Preston
No, the *standard* is not fragmented, the implementation by UA
developers is fragmented.
And, please, knock off the 'if you are a real developer' crap until you
can distinguish between a standard and the implemntation of UA that
adheres or does not adhere to the standards.
Bill Anderson
My opinions are just that, *my* opinions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Subject: Re: Whats the difference between Proxy and DHCP?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:19:55 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
>
> We have linux machines on our clients networks that have 2 nics in them and
> it acts as a shared modem type solution for the whole office to get
> internet. Well, its running a dhcp server and I was wondering if this setup
> is technically a proxy server? If not, then exactly what is a Proxy? Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
>
Your situation is called masquerading. You are hiding (masquerading) a
whole LAN behind a single linux machine. (Actually, I'm assuming here.
The most general case is that you have linux box acting as a router. It
may be acting as a masquerading firewall as well.)
DHCP is the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is NOT a proxy
server. It is a protocol that allows a server to give clients their IP
address, their default gateway, and whole bunch of other parameters
automagically over the LAN.
The linux box *might* be running a proxy server as well (such as delegate
or squid). A proxy server acts as an intermediary between the client
requesting a connection to a server and the server. The proxy makes the
connection on behalf of the client and interacts with the server
directly. It then passes the information back to the requesting client.
The advantage of the proxy is that you can (i) log every connection, (ii)
cache frequently visited sites, and (iii) you can avoid direct TCP/UDP
connections between your "protected" machines and servers on the
Internet. I'm sure there are other advantages that others will post.
Hopes this helps,
Luca
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