Linux-Networking Digest #274, Volume #10 Sun, 21 Feb 99 19:13:30 EST
Contents:
Looking for Mobile Phone SMS gateway software - Any tips ? (John Auld)
Please HELP me identify a FastEthernet Pci card (Chessnik)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Re: Balsa, gnome 0.99.8, RH5.2 and compile problems (Jim Richardson)
Re: where to find qt 1.42 (Mark I Manning IV)
Re: Can I setup a standalone Apache Server?? ("JSH")
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG ("Anthony W. Youngman")
Re: Telnet mysteriously non-functional, refuses connections ("Andrew Tatton")
Best nic ("David")
Re: Unter SUSE 5.3 funktioniert das Routing nicht ! (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: NFS and Samba Problem in IP Masq Gateway (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: Port forwarding with ipchains (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: IPCHAINS and ip port forwarding (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? ("jim")
Linux + GRE... Documentation? ("Seth Ladd")
Re: Sendmail as an internet email server (David Means)
Re: Win95 and Linux Mail Server (Thorsten Guenther)
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From: (John Auld)
Subject: Looking for Mobile Phone SMS gateway software - Any tips ?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:06:41 GMT
I am looking out for software to run on Linux (RedHat 5.1) to act as
an SMS gateway for e-mail and web based forms.
If possible, I want to use an ordinary modem and a land line to send
the messages.
Do you know of any projects for this type of application?
Thanks in advance.
John Auld
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chessnik)
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Please HELP me identify a FastEthernet Pci card
Date: 21 Feb 1999 21:52:26 GMT
I've got a FastEthernet Pci PnP 32 bit card.It works ok with w95.
I'm using it to access internet thru a cable modem.
I installed redhat 5.0 but I cannot config the card.
It's made in Taiwan by VIA Technologies and the model is SN5100TX.
I was not able to find a single reference on the Internet about this company
or about the model of the card.
Would really appreciate any help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Date: 21 Feb 1999 14:07:14 -0500
In article <7aljfu$n68$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
>
> >Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> >local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> >fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> >about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>
> We have used dead rock stars up to now. Hendrix is our main box,
> with lennon (mine at home), valens, bonham, elvis, joplin, vaughan,
> and jones in use so far. Scalability has _not_ been a problem. ;-)
Sincd I usually build my own from scratch, I use movie monster names. The
machine I'm usign right now, an old 486slc2-66 boxx that's dying, is
freddie, as in Freddie Krueger. My first PC clone, an old XT, was named
'the Golem'.
Keven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Balsa, gnome 0.99.8, RH5.2 and compile problems
Date: 20 Feb 1999 19:46:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 19 Feb 1999 08:35:03 -0600,
Tom Ellis, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a brand spanking new Red Hat 5.2 install and have recently
>installed all the gnome 0.99.8 rpms on this system. After looking around for
>a nice looking mail reader, I thought I'd give balsa a try since it's the
>gnome MUA and it the screenshots looked rather spiffy. I snagged the tarball
>for 0.49 off linuxberg and tried to compile it but have run into problems.
>Whenever I run the configure script it always peters out while checking to
>make sure that gtk is installed. Everything that the README file lists as
>required for the program is installed, via RPM, but the configure script
>just dies claiming that either gtk is not installed, or that the location
>has changed since it was first installed. I have both the gtk+ and
>gtk+-devel rpms installed and the libraries appear to all be there. It looks
>like it is bombing when checking for /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h but that library
>is there. So, does anybody have any suggestions for getting balsa to compile
>and install? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
>
>Tom
If you are absolutely sure that the required libs are where they are
supposed to be, and uncorrupted, then alter the config script to skip
checking for them.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: Mark I Manning IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: where to find qt 1.42
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:59:01 -0500
Carlos A wrote:
>
> I'm looking for the RPM version of QT 1.42 and I can't find it anywhere.
> Even tried redhat's site.
>
> Does anybody have a link where to find it?
>
> Tanks in advance.
--
If you sit down at a game of poker and dont see a sucker...
Get UP, your teh sucker!
qt version 1.42 required gtk+ version 1.1.x. If you install gtk+ 1.1.x
overwriting the older 1.0.x gtk+ thn you will probably breeak
dependancies. The only way arround this is to have BOTH versions of
gtk+ installed on your system at teh same time.
THIS HAS TO BE THE LAMEST SETUP IVE EVER SEEN!
My advice is stuff qt 1.42, gtk 1.1.x and all applications that require
them. Why tie your system up into this kind of gordian knot just to run
some editor you think you might like!
till gtk ppl start writing downward compatable libraries (troll too),
till they pull their head out and actuaolly STANDADISE their libraries,
WHY BOTHER! its more trouble than its worth.
install gtk+ 1.0.6 and qt 1.41.
Mark
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From: "JSH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I setup a standalone Apache Server??
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 10:52:50 -0500
You do not need to register a domain name to run Apache on your computer.
You do not need to be connected to the Internet to run Apache, though if you
aren't connected to the Internet, the only way you can access the server is
from your own computer or from a computer on your LAN.
If you are planning to use the server ONLY for yourself on the same
computer, do the following:
1.) Make sure your loopback interface (lo) is enabled by typing ifconfig. If
there is no "lo" listed, type ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
2.) What domain names do you want to use? Place them in /etc/hosts as
aliases after 127.0.0.1. For example, if you wanted to use the domain name
"duckytown" (like I do on my computer), your entry would look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost duckytown
Leave "localhost" as the first entry, though.
3.) Set up VirtualHost(s) in the /var/apache/etc/httpd.conf file. The
instructions are somewhere on the bottom. In my case, the ServerName of my
VirtualHost would be "duckytown."
This is the simplest way to do what you are asking... it gets more
complicated when you want your server to be accessible through a LAN or if
you are running DNS.
Dominik Slusarczyk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qiang Wan wrote in message ...
>Hi,there:
> I am a beginner to Linux network setup and I tried to setup an Apache
>web server on my PC. Is that possible for me to run an standalone Apache
>as a server for Netscape in my PC without connecting to internet. Do I had
to
>get a IP address and domain name for my PC in order to run Apache. Is there
any way that I can
>emulate an "fake" IP address just for stand alone use within a PC. Or if I
had
>to get a IP address, how can I get a IP and what is the cost?
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>Qiang
>
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:54:54 +0000
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <7acjnn$avp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Penfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>
>
>> >That's flat-out ridiculous. How can MacOS crash anything? What "some
>> >systems"? It's amazing how these people always think that working in a
>> >computer-related firm grants them carte blanche to talk out of their ass
>> >about things they don't even approach understanding.
>> >
>> >miguel
>> The OS has nothing to do with crashing anything remotely. Network
>> packets are network packets. That's the entire point of networking.
>
>Actually for a long while one of the other ISP's in town sent all of their
>MAC users to us for service. It seems that everytime this lady with a MAC
>logged on ... the term server she connected to would lock up and cause it to
>reset. I know the network admin over there so I beleive him.
>
It's fixed now, but maybe she tripped over an old bug in Radius. There
was a section of non-re-entrant code that permitted interrupts :-(
The US supplier couldn't understand why it was okay (mostly) in the
States, yet crashed bang on 6pm every weekday over here. The thing was
the statistical probability of a crash was fairly low with maybe 100
attempted logins a second, but 6pm is when UK phone charges drop from
3p/min(6c) to 1p/min(2c) and Demon would typically get a couple of
thousand attempted logins - the probability of a fatal interrupt thus
rising to nearly 1.
Maybe their Radius server had that sort of bug ...
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
Trousers with a single hole in their waistband are topologically equivalent
to a doughnut. These sugarcoated trousers have yet to catch on at fast-food
outlets! (SuperStrings by F. David Peat)
If replying by e-mail please mail wol. Anything else may get missed amongst
the spam.
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From: "Andrew Tatton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet mysteriously non-functional, refuses connections
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:03:48 -0000
Reply-To: "Andrew Tatton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok try this
1 ) Make sure tcp_wrappers is installed, otherwise the daemon won't be
started
2) Make sure the telnet daemon actually exist
3) Make sure if you are telnetting using hostname (ie telnet linuxbox) try
telnet ip instead (telnet 192.168.1.1)
HTH
Andy
Porphyrous wrote in message <7aot5r$226$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all....
>
>telnet is pretty much an aim and squirt service. So, I'm stuck on where to
>go with this.
>
>* I try to telnet.
>* Says trying 192.168.1.1 (which is the right address).
>* Says Connected to wesley.porphyrous.org (which is right name resolved)
>* Says Escape character is '^]'
>* Nothing else happens
>* Within 10 seconds, says Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>The behavior is the same regardless of whether or not I'm dialed out. I've
>checked hosts.deny (ALL: ALL) and hosts.allow (ALL: LOCAL), hosts and
>resolv.conf look okay. I'm a little mystified, because there isn't much
>more to telnet than that, is there?
>
>I'm running Red Hat 5.1, kernel 2.0.36.
>
>
>
>--
> porphyrous (por' fi Rus) adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the color purple.
>David L. Vessell | Tualatin, Oregon | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.pobox.com/~porphyrous | http://www.pobox.com/~lpo
> SUPPORT THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF OREGON
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best nic
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:13:22 -0000
I am in need on a new network card 10base2 is fine .
Can somebody reccomend one that redhat 5.2 will install with no problems??
Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: Unter SUSE 5.3 funktioniert das Routing nicht !
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:47:16 GMT
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:36:39 +0100, Jan Schade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hallo
Hi.
Das hier ist uebrigens eine englischsprachige Newsgroup, weisst Du
das? Aber da Du in Deutsch fragst, antworte ich vorsichtshalber auch
in der Sprache, damit Du das auch sicher verstehst (bitte nicht falsch
verstehen).
>ich m�chte meinen Linux-Rechner als Router konfigurieren.
>Dazu haben die beiden Netzkarten bereits jeweils ihre IP-Nummer
>erhalten.
>Meine innere Karte hat : 192.168.1.1
>Meine �u�ere Karte hat : 141.57.29.235
Gut.
>In der Routing-Tabelle habe ich bereits die beiden Netze (lokales und
>�u�eres Netz eingetragen)
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
>Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
>0 14 eth1
> 141.57.29.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
>0 9 eth0
> default 141.57.29.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0
>0 8 eth0
Die Tabelle ist zwar haesslich, weil sie umgebrochen wurde (ich
loesche dagegen immer die zumeist nutzlosen Eintraege 'Flags',
'Metric' und 'Ref' heraus, dann passt sie), sieht aber gut aus.
>Mein Problem ist nun aber: - ich komme zwar nach au�en (�ber das
>default-gateway), aber ich kann meinen inneren Rechner, der die
>IP-Nummer 192.168.1.3 hat nicht anpingen ! Welche Einstellungen m�ssen
>noch erfolgen, damit ich ins interne Netz komme ??
Ich vermute, das liegt an dem internen Rechner. Was fuer eine Kiste
ist das denn? Weiss die, dass sie die Linux-Maschine als Gateway
verwenden soll? Bzw., ist sie ueberhaupt richtig konfiguriert, hat sie
die IP-Adresse richtig eingetragen und die Netzmaske und so?
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: NFS and Samba Problem in IP Masq Gateway
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:52:23 GMT
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:27:30 -0500, Matthew Ho
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>And every time I try
>mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/linux /tmp/linux
>
>it returns
>directory is busy or already mounted
>
>but i try
>umount /tmp/linux
>
>it returns
>umount: /tmp/linux: not mounted
>
>The problem seems to start when I installed the second Ethernet card for
>the xDSL service. NFS was working fine before that. I install RedHat
>over NFS since I do not have a CD-ROM drive on this 486dx33 Linux box.
>
>Another problem is Samba. I can access te harddrive of this linux box
>in the Network Neighborhood of the Win95 machines. Once I installed the
>2nd Ethernet card. I cannot access the drive anymore. I can't even
>start the service using /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start command. The process
>just dead after that (I cannot find it in 'ps aux').
>
>Is there anything wrong would be caused by the setup of this second
>Ethernet card? I really have no clue what went wrong. Please help.
Sounds like a routing problem. What do 'ifconfig' and 'route -n' say?
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: Port forwarding with ipchains
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:06:29 GMT
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:00:01 -0800, Mike Braun
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to do port forwarding with ipchains, I have found examples
>with ipautofw but I don't know how to translate them into an ipchains
>command.
>
>Here is an example:
>ipautofw -A -r udp 1410 1450 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz
>ipautofw -A -r tcp 1410 1450 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz
>
>what are the equivalent commands with ipchains?
According to the IP chains HOWTO, section 6.4, and assuming you've got
the ipmasqadm package they reference:
ipmasqadm autofw -A r udp 1410 1450 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 1410 1450 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz
HTH
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: IPCHAINS and ip port forwarding
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:08:03 GMT
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:09:25 -0600, Kevin Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>We're trying to use IP chains with our new 2.2.1 kernel. Our big
>problem at the moment is that we're unable to figure out from man pages,
>HOWTO docs, news postings, etc. how to for the SMTP port on the external
>(Internet) port to our internal (LAN) port.
>
>All outbound ipchains work fine (except ftp-data, we're still wrestling
>with this too). Does anyone know for SURE if ipchains can do this? We
>seen some stuff on ipportfw and ipmasqadm, but these seem like they're
>only good for ipfwadm.
>
>Please help if you can. If you do, I'll send you a scan of a Dilbert
>cartoon.
Yeah, I'd like that scan, I'll try to help. :) Note that I'm still on
a 2.0.36 kernel and using ipfwadm, but I've just consulted the IP
chains HOWTO and the concept is pretty similar.
The HOWTO seems to indicate that port forwarding is a standard feature
of kernels 2.1 or above, so you'll only need to have enabled it in
your kernel recompile configuration to be able to use it. Then,
section 6.4 says:
====== begin quote from IP chains HOWTO v1.0.2, Fri Sep 25 1998 ======
6.4 ipautofw and ipportfw don't work!
For 2.0.x, this is true; I haven't time to create and maintain a jumbo
patch for ipchains and ipautofw/ipportfw.
For 2.1.x, download ipmasqadm from
<url url="http://juanjox.home.ml.org/"
name="http://juanjox.home.ml.org/">
and use it exactly as you would have used ipautofw or ipportfw, except
instead of ipportfw you type ipmasqadm portfw, and instead of ipautofw
you type ipmasqadm autofw.
======== end quote ===================================================
Since you want to forward port 25 (SMTP) to your external mailserver,
you should use the following lines, assuming the mailserver is on IP
address 192.168.1.10 and the firewall's public IP address is 1.2.3.4:
1. ipportfw:
ipmasqadm portfw -A -t 1.2.3.4/25 -R 192.168.1.10/25
2. ipautofw:
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 25 25 -h 192.168.1.10
I'm not all too firm on how ipautofw operates exactly, so I won't give
any guarantees that variant 2 will work, but the portfw line should.
Feel free to email me if it needs further work. Oh, and send the
Dilbert cartoon scan to my email address, too, please. :)
Tobias
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:04:42 -0800
>At a previous company, one set of lab machines was named
>after defunct computer companies:
> cydrome, multiflow, vitesse, ...
>
> Marty Itzkowitz
This should avoid scalability problems...
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From: "Seth Ladd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux + GRE... Documentation?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:00:41 -0500
Hello all!
I am searching for any documentation or help with Linux 2.2.1's GRE code. I
compiled it into my kernel just fine, and if I execute 'ifconfig -a' I see a
gre0 interface waiting to be used. But for the life of me, I can't find
_anything_ that shows me how to use it. I am familiar with tunneling, just
not with Linux.
Any ideas on where to find this information?
Many thanks in advance,
Seth
ps Please respond to shl6472@[REMOVE_THIS]rit.edu.
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From: David Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail as an internet email server
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:53:20 GMT
Well, we'd luv to, but you'd be better off buying a book. Go to
http://amazon.com and do a search on "sendmail". I'd recommend the "nutshell"
book.
David
Manoli Kokologiannakis wrote:
>
> Can somebody help me setup sendmail as an email server that can be used
> on the internet using pop3 clients such as Netscape Mail and Outlook.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Thorsten Guenther <apo*remove-this*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win95 and Linux Mail Server
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:39:50 +0100
hi kamil,
you will have to install and configure an pop3 deamon. ist�s quite easy.
(at least whith suse) sendmail is not able to answer pop3 requests.
Kamil Politowicz schrieb:
>
> I have installed mail server under Linux 2.2.1 (RH 5.1). Everything is
> OK, when I use the same Linux computer for sending and receiving mail
> massages. But when I try to connect to this server from Win95 (I use
> Outlook 97) I cannot even log in.
>
> Which settings should I change to make Linux work as POP3 server for
> Win95?
>
> Thanks at advance,
>
> Kamil
--
cu
thorsten
apo*remove-this*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"foster nimmt die linke flanke, haigh die rechte und cox die mitte.
ich schaue von hier."
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