Linux-Networking Digest #293, Volume #10 Wed, 24 Feb 99 03:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: Static IP change to DHCP on @Home no longer works ("Kelly")
incomplete HWaddress on arp? (Hari A. Nair)
LINUX under heavy network load (Guy Tel-Zur)
Re: printing to a NT-served printer from Linux (Richard Cooper)
Re: I give up with Linux and Win98 network (Marc Hering)
PPP Demon failed (Emad Ibrahim)
Re: printing to JetDirect problem (Dann Church)
Ethernet Driver for AcerLan320TX ? ("A v/d Sanden")
Re: Is MSN dialup linux friendly? (Marc Hering)
Re: Where is ipautofw? (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: Two computer use one modem to connect internet... (jedi)
Re: New Message in netscape freezes with 2.2.1 Kernel (Matt Templeton)
Re: Apache: IDC and ASP ("Tarun Arora")
Re: Dialing out help (Chetan Ahuja)
Re: 2 realtek 8029 (ne driver) on RH 5.1 ? ("Aaron Fillion")
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From: "Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Static IP change to DHCP on @Home no longer works
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:08:17 GMT
>>Up until yesterday my connection to @home on RedHat 5.2 was working great
>>with a static IP. Well, they switched my connection to DHCP provided IPs
so
>>I changed my networking accordingly in both Win98 (works) and Linux (only
>>half works) and it went downhill from there. DHCP does not seem to be
>>passing the correct networking info on to my networking programs.
>>
>>On booting Linux, symptoms are that DHCP shows 'done' but when both 'amd'
>>and 'sendmail' are being loaded they stall for several minutes. Once
logged
>>in I can only ping using IP addresses, not domain names. As soon as I try
and >>use a name ie internic.net, ping and all other networking programs
stall. I figured
>>they're not seeing my DNS or Gateway info properly or something like that.
>>My /etc/resolv.conf shows the correct DNSs and domain copied from
>>/etc/dhcpc/resolv/conf.
>>
>>ifconfig shows
>>-usual lo stuff
>>-eth0 inet addr: 24.64.x.x bcast: 24.64.211.255 mask: 255.x.x.x
>>-no RX or TX errors, drops, etc and packets sent
>>
>>netstat -nr shows:
>>24.64.208.0 0.0.0.0 255.x.x.x etc for eth0
>>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 etx for lo
>>
>>Netscape stalled in X as well and actually hung me in X so all I could
think
>>of at the time was the last resort of power off. Linux did not like this
at
>>all and I had to fsck and it left nightmares of reinstalls in my mind just
>>when I thought I had it beat :-).
>>
>>I am stumped and a semi-newbie so....please! help if you can. Thanks.
>>Kelly
Well I FINALLY solved this dilemma after 2 days of frustration. Thank you
Luca for you help in this matter. As it turned out it was the DNS servers
that were giving me the problem.
I called @Home again today and was told that the DNS servers that the DHCP
server send to it's clients are NOT the ones that will work with Linux. I
didn't know that it mattered what the end client was be it Linux, Win or
Mac. Be that as it may, they finally supplied me with the DNS numbers that
work, I changed those in my resolv.conf and presto! it worked. I could ping
anywhere by domain name or IP address. I also changed my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup file for the new dhcpcd 1.3 and kernel
2.2 I just installed in trying to solve all my problems.
The only problem with all this is that every time dhcpcd starts, it gets the
bad DNS addresses again and changes my resolv.conf file. I have looked thru
ifup and other startup files I know about and can't find the line that
changes this file. I need my resolv.conf left alone by DHCP. I finally just
stuck a line in my rc.local to cp my own resolv.conf over the one that is
changed on start up. This works fine but I wish I could find the file that
references this to comment out this line. Another thing, it also doesn't
look like the new dhcpcd is just started from the ifup because everytime I
put a line in here to start it, my processes show that there are 2 instances
of it active?? So does anyone know what other script would start it?
If anyones interested, the lines I changed in my ifup on RedHat 5.2 to make
it work okay for dhcpcd 1.3 were were found at:
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~jas/dhcpcd-on-redhat-with-linux-2.2.html Credit to
Simon for putting this on the web. Cheers.
Kelly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hari A. Nair)
Subject: incomplete HWaddress on arp?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 19:30:27 GMT
Hi all - I'm having a lot of trouble networking my laptop and desktop
together.
I'm running RedHat 5.2 on each machine. The desktop is a Pentium II
350 MHz with a 3c509 ISA card. The laptop is a Pentium 133 with a
3c589 pcmcia card. I'm fairly sure the hardware and cables are okay.
Here's the output from route, which is the same on both machines,
except for the Use column:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 3 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 lo
Here's the output for eth0 from ifconfig on the desktop:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:1C:BF:24
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
and on the laptop:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:A6:15:00
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
The output from arp is a mystery to me. Sometimes arp -n gives
nothing on either machine. Then if I try to ping from the desktop to
the laptop, I get no response, but then arp -n on the desktop gives:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
192.168.1.2 (incomplete) eth0
and on the laptop:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
192.168.1.1 ether 00:10:5A:1C:BF:24 C eth0
Now on the desktop, if I manually set the HWaddress to the address of
the laptop and then try to ping the laptop, ping still gives no
response. But tcpdump on the laptop shows both an echo request and a
reply, and the lights blink on the hub. If I ping from the laptop to
the desktop, the desktop doesn't reply.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Hari Nair
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From: Guy Tel-Zur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX under heavy network load
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:15:41 +0200
I did a network loading test using "ping -f" between two P-II 300MHz
machines; The first machine has Linux (RH 5.2) and the second has BSDI.
In addition to packet losses, after several minuets the following
message appeared on the Linux machine: "Couldn't get a free page".
How can I fix this memory management problem and reduce the amount of
packet losses?
Guy Tel-Zur
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Cooper)
Subject: Re: printing to a NT-served printer from Linux
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:55:23 GMT
I have a Linux system on the NT network similar to your. The
following is the /etc/printcap file for the linux system. It allows
the Linux system to print to the "HP LaserJet 4V/$mv PostScript"
printer on NT server "grove200". TCP/IP print services must be setup
and running on the NT server. The printer name in /etc/printcap must
match the NT printer name, and the linux hostname/IP address should be
known to the NT system through DNS.
Hope this helps -
Richard Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# This printcap is being created with printtool v.3.27
# Any changes made here manually will be lost if printtool
# is run later on.
# The presence of this header means that no printcap
# existed when printtool was run.
#
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default 1
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=grove200:\
:rp=HP LaserJet 4V/4MV PostScript:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
[root@kenny /root]#
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:06:47 -0500, "Ashwin K. Raj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
><html>
>Hi,
><p> We have an NT network in the lab, and I set up a Linux
>server (independently) on the same network. The Linux box has its own IP
>address and qualified domain name, and does not interfere with the NT network
>in any way. The NT server is a print server for a HP 4000N Network printer.
>Since the printer has its own IP address, I was trying to figure out a
>way to make the Linux box be able to print to this printer with or without
>(preferably) considering something like SAMBA. I was not able to find anything
>pertaining to this case in the HOWTOs, and I am hoping someone would be
>able to help me out and give me a head start on making this work.
><p> Someone please hear me! Thanks!
><p>Ashwin
><br>Educational Technology Lab
><br>University of Illinois at Chicago</html>
>
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I give up with Linux and Win98 network
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 06:51:45 GMT
in that case what are the ipfwadm commands you are using? I have set up 2
machines to ipmasq one is a redhat5.1 (kernel 3.0.34) and the other is HR5.2
kernel 2.2.1 (dl the new ipchains stuff) if yous is not working then mabye
you are using the wrong ipfwadm or ipchains commands,,the commands that I
used that worked were
For Kernel 2.0.34 with ipfwadm I used:
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
ipfwadm -A -l
(10.0.0.0 is my interel network number)
for the 2.2.1 kernel this is what worked
ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ
Hope this helps,,,let me know (via email)
good luck! :)
Jose wrote:
> Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >I know that this is probably going to sound stupid,,but in your startup
> scripts
> >do you see a message about
> >disableing IPV4 forwarding
> >or somrhing like that????
>
> <snip>
>
> Actually it's enable, I made sure I enabled it.
>
> >also do you have forwarding support compiled into the kernel?
>
> Yes, it is compile in the kernel..
>
> I just needed the command or script for NAT.. I was running NT Server
> before I decided to give Linux another try..
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From: Emad Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP Demon failed
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:25:27 -0500
I am using red hat 5.2 with kde.
I can connect , enter username and password and get back my ip address
and then I get a message saying that
ppp demon died unexpectedly.
I am using kppp.
HELP!!!!
thanks.
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From: Dann Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: printing to JetDirect problem
Date: 24 Feb 1999 07:04:02 GMT
Time to Post wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.admin Clarence Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : New JetDirects come with built-in LPD spooler and you can
> : print to them like an ordinary remote printer host.
> : You still have to arrange for a bootpc or dhcpd server to
> : provide ip address, routing, etc when the jetdirect printer
> : first comes on. On some models you
> : can do this setup from the front LCD panel.
>
> : I've heard that the LPD spooler inside is not robust.( Or
> : you might have the older models without this feature.)
> : In this case you can talk directly to the printer
> : at port 9011 (??? from deep memory, might be off ) and handle
> : the spooling on a linux box. This also makes sense if you're
> : trying to provide quotas, access control, filters, etc.
>
> : I believe that LPRng provided some support for net printers.
>
> One correction to this -- in strobe'ing my JetDirect cards they
> were accepting direct talk on port 9099...
My experience printing to JetDirect cards is that they listen to UDP traffic
on port 9100. This was from snooping the traffic from a Solaris machine
running JetAdmin and an hp5x with JetDirect card installed. They might have
a range that they'll listen on.
As for the BSD (LPD) printing, there internal LPD spooler is still spotty.
Can't handle more than one request on Port 515 at a time, didn't always
respond correctly to status checks, etc, etc....
If they'd only port the JetAdmin to Linux.....
--Dann Church
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From: "A v/d Sanden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet Driver for AcerLan320TX ?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:07:29 +0100
Does anyone know how to get an AcerLan 320 Tx 10/100Mbps working under Linux
?
Thanks Albert
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is MSN dialup linux friendly?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 07:08:56 GMT
I was able to connect to an MSN dialup acct using RH5.2 the only thing
you have to realize is that they use MS-CHAP for dial in authentication,
and they use M$ DHCP server to provide IP address assignment, which can
cause problems,, but I Downloaded KDE and used Kppp and it was smooth
surfing :) my local ISP uses NT for dial in and they also use DHCP server
and I can connect, but in all reality, I would have to agree and
reccommend that you find a small local ISP with a good connection, any
ISP worth it's salt will be willing to work with you and most that I have
dealt with will let you cancel if the speed is not good,,
Hope this is informative :)
Cheers!!
Tony Waters wrote:
> Henry Lu wrote:
> >
> > My local ISP is horrible and I am looking for a new ISP. The
> > connection speed to Microsoft Network from my local place is good.
> >
> > Here is the question: Is MSN ppp dialup a good choice for linux
> > technically? Does MSN use standard PPP protocols ?
> >
> > Henry
>
> I don't want to seem negative about this...but I have some serious
> doubts
> as to whether MSN is going to let you connect with a Linux box...
>
> It's almost sacrilegious....kinda like giving Torvalds Office 97 as a
> Christmas present.
>
> maybe someone else has experience with this?
>
> --
> +-+-+
> http://home.earthlink.net/~hawaiistyle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: Where is ipautofw?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:21:05 GMT
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:26:45 GMT, "Jay Doscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[snip]
>'make dep ; make clean ; make zImage ; make modules ; make modules_install ;
>make zlilo'
Isn't that overdoing it a little? I thought the zlilo target made a
zImage, copied it to /vmlinuz, renaming the old one to /vmlinuz.old
and replaced the latter with the former as the first one in
/etc/lilo.conf, rerunning lilo for the changes to take effect. I
didn't think you needed to 'make zImage' before that (while I prefer
to make zImage and rename the new kernel to something more
descriptive).
>and then I do all the lilo fun stuff. but when it's all said and done,
>/sbin still doesn't have ipautofw in it. I have built a machine before with
>a veery similar config and it showed up after the recompile..... help!
I don't think so. Ipautofw support in the kernel does only that, it
prepares the kernel for ipautofw. You need to get the ipautofw source
separately. The help button in make menuconfig says that it's
available at ftp://ftp.netis.com/pub/members/rlynch/.
HTH
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Subject: Re: Two computer use one modem to connect internet...
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:43:28 -0800
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:41:30 +0800, Kris Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,everyone:
> I have two computers.One is Windows NT workstation 4.0 and the other is
>Linux slackware.
>How can I use only one modem and one phone to connect Internet?
/usr/doc/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO
--
Herding Humans ~ Herding Cats
Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Matt Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: New Message in netscape freezes with 2.2.1 Kernel
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:28:09 +0000
Gerd Roethig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:48:22 -0700 Doug Nordwall
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Whenever I hit new message in Netscape (4.08 and 4.5), it freezes
> >netscape. This is after I updated my kernel to 2.2.1. It does not freeze
> >if I am logged in as root, but it does as any user, so I suspect that it
> >is a permission problem on a library, but I have no idea which. Perhaps
> >someone with more knowledge could give me a hand?
>
If your using NFS to mount your home directories on another machine, try
updating to kernel 2.2.2 . It helped me...
Matt
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From: "Tarun Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache: IDC and ASP
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:09:49 -0800
May be corrected but:
ASP is a Microsoft concept. A file called asp.dll parses the .asp file and
generates HTML to dish out to the browser.
For Apache, there is a similar software called PHP. visit www.php.net for
details.
It can do databases conn and stuff like ASP ....
I doubt if you ASP will work with apache.
There is a software asp2php ..I forgot the URL try Yahoo!
Thanks
T
Raphael Zulliger wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've got a complete Webpage programmed with IDC and ASP, because our
>Webpage is on a NT Server. Now we maybe wanna change on a LINUX Server.
>But is there a way that IDC and ASP works together with Apache?
>
>Thank you.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chetan Ahuja)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dialing out help
Date: 24 Feb 1999 07:20:40 GMT
Chuck Lidderdale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I've looked through the manuals and can't find what I'm looking for -
: help please.
: I'm using RH 5.2 as a local server - what I want to do is use it as a
: gateway to the
: Internet, setup as a "on-demand" dealt. That is when when a
: workstation/client
: pops up their browser [Netscape] that the server will fire up the modem
: on the
: server, connect to our ISP and maintain that connection as long as
: needed.
: Any suggestions - a script using DIP?, Minicom?, another something?
: Thanks,
: Chuck
'diald' is the answer to your problem. It dials up the ISP on demand.
Search for it on freshmeat.. You will also need to set up IP masquarading
on your linux box. Search for all this on the dejanews/freshmeat/web search
engines etc.
All the best
Chetan
--
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From: "Aaron Fillion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 realtek 8029 (ne driver) on RH 5.1 ?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 04:36:48 GMT
The cards are pci and here is what I get :
PCI
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Voodoo2 (rev 2).
Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 255.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6000000.
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11.
I/O at 0xd800.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10.
I/O at 0xd000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xc800.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xfff0.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82439TX (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
IOPORTS
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : sound blaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(auto)
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
fff0-fff7 : IDE DMA
fff8-ffff : IDE DMA
interrupts
0: 93925 timer
1: 1552 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
5: 1 sound blaster
8: 1 + rtc
13: 1 math error
14: 3415 + ide0
15: 0 + ide1
when I run ifconfig I get a message about irq10 and irq11 causing a
conflict. I think that I should update the ne driver, but I do not think
that will make any difference
Aaron
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