Linux-Networking Digest #298, Volume #10 Wed, 24 Feb 99 23:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? ("Tyrebender")
Re: SuSE 5.2 > 6.0, PPP ok for root, not user. Permissions? Dort of. (mh)
Re: Please recommend a good frictional T1 service (Sean Feng)
Re: Newbie: Cable modem on 486 as router and firewall (mike)
Re: Help, I'm at my wits end over PPP (stringspider)
Need help: telnet/ftp timeouts (Harry and Elaine Bogucki)
Re: Need help: telnet/ftp timeouts ("William R. Mattil")
Re: ethernet card error ("Tom Hulley")
Re: Mail servers in Linux (Nama Gua)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Greg Evans)
Re: Memorex Telex 1476, 1489 with Linux? ("Art Rice")
Re: Home LINUX netserver question. (bklimas)
Re: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix Quote of the month ("equality7-2125")
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Brian D. Silverio)
Re: NFS mystery (L J Bayuk)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (LW)
Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps? (Doodle)
Re: X-windows + IP Masq + IPFWADM (Barry Keeney)
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From: "Tyrebender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:42:43 +0200
I named one of my machines TEST_Tickle
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From: mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 5.2 > 6.0, PPP ok for root, not user. Permissions? Dort of.
Date: 24 Feb 1999 16:37:11 PST
um, never mind. I re-read the man pages for pppd and chat, figured out
what /etc/ppp/options was all about and wrote a couple shell scripts.
Too bad SuSE can't be a little more helpful regarding their PPP
implementation.
_________________________________________________________________________
mh wrote:
>
> My SuSE 5.2 configuration would let me use PPP as a user, after I
> changed some PPP permissions. After upgrading to 6.0, which uses ppp
> 2.3.5, I get the following message: "/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name
> option requires root privilage". I noticed that
> /usr/suseppp/generic.chat and generic.options were root.dialout so I
> added me to the dialout group. Same message. I tried adding me to
> /etc/ppp/peers, with "noauth me" in the /etc/ppp/peers/me file. Same
> message.
>
> Root dials out fine. I just don't want to become root to dialout. kppp
> works fine for me, but . . .
>
> Thanks!
> --
> "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy,
> but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:52:33 -0800
From: Sean Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Please recommend a good frictional T1 service
Thank all of you for the information. I would like to connect the
server in the Los Angeles area.
I don't believe that colocation will work for me because of my system
setup.
Frac. T1 <<<>>> Linux Webserver <<<proxy firewall and IP filtering >>>
Linux SQL server with CCVS credit card software.
I am not sure the webserver should having the SQL database, which
contains product/inventory and customer private info database, while the
webserver also processes credit cards thru a regular phone line. Hence
I am not sure I can do colocation with the setup.
Thank you for any additional inputs.
Sean
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From: mgjk@[nospam]arcos.com (mike)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Cable modem on 486 as router and firewall
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:15:53 GMT
On 24 Feb 1999 21:47:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KevinO) wrote:
>
>Newbie needs help: I'm new to networking and Linux so please be
>patient with me. After reading through many HOW-TOs, I've finally
>got my network to run, but not efficiently.
>
>I have a 486 DX33 w/ 16mb RAM that is set up as a router and
>firewall box for an incoming cable modem connection. There's also
>a secondary nic that will route packets to my subnet. All that
>works but the throughput is very slow. I'm using RH 5.2 with
>IP Masq enabled. Inside the 486 are two Intel Etherexpress 10BT
>cards. FYI, I'm on Time Warner Road Runner.
>
>I have two other PCs on the subnet(a PII 300 and P 100). When
>I try to download with either one of these PC I get around or
>less than 20K/sec using Netscape. That is way below what I would
>expect. I understand it could be the site that is slow or plainly
>Internet traffic. Both of these PCs were either running Win98 or
>RH 5.2 during the transfer sessions.
>
>However, as a test, I hooked up the cable modem line directly to my
>PII 300 running Windows 98. I got approximately 80K/sec downloading
>Netscape Communicator.
>
>My questions are:
> Could the 486 be the bottleneck? ie: too slow?
> Are there any performance tuning I can set or adjust on my
> 486 or even my PCs?
> Routing, firewalling policies, etc?
>
>Does anyone have a similar setup that they would like to share with
>me? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using a very similar configuration with an ADSL. It is a 486
DX2-66 with 32M of ram, but I would wager money that a 386 with less
than 8 could do just as good a job. I get transfer rates of roughly
100kBps, the full speed of my ADSL... and still slower than the
slowest CDROM money can buy.
Check your network too. If you are running 10Base2 cable and you've
exceeded the bend radius or similar, you would wind up with some lousy
network performance. Try transferring large files from one system to
the next.
With transfer rates that slow, make absolutely sure there are no
problems with your network configuration on your 486. What kind of
transfer rates does it get when you try to pull files from the
internet on _that_ machine?
-Mike
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:33:26 -0800
From: stringspider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Help, I'm at my wits end over PPP
I've had many problems setting up my PPP connection as well(RedHat 5.2) But I am
happy to write this message under Linux after (also) using ezppp. I highly (and
happily) recommend the package.
Mark wrote:
> Ferry
>
> I've had a few probs setting up ppp. In the end I downloaded ezppp (can't
> remember the url but a decent search engine should find it). After installing
> this I was on-line in half an hour...
> --
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> Ferry van Steen wrote:
>
> > I'm using slackware and have a same sort of problem.... My ppp-go doesn't
> > work however.... starting minicom, using atdt<num> so my modem will call
> > will work to open the connection. Then I'll see a lot of crap (PAP in my
> > case) and i'll quit with ALT-Q (NO RESET!!!) and start pppd. Might work for
> > you too....
> >
> > Daniel Podgurski heeft geschreven in bericht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >The Scot wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hello again,
> > >>
> > >> Thank you to everyone who has helped so far, alas I still can't get ppp
> > to
> > >> work and I'm really lost as to what to try next. I just wnat to surf with
> > >> linux, thats all. I've tried using kppp, I set things up with netcfg but
> > then
> > >> kppp still wouldn't work, I tried pppd but that didn't work either...
> > >>
> > >> So I tried eznet. I made sure ttyS3 was linked to /dev/modem
> > >>
> > >> I downloaded the binary and copied it to /usr/bin and did a chmod 04755
> > as
> > >> the read me instructed. I entered the info and then tried eznet tir up,
> > it
> > >> just sits there I tried multiple times and it just sits there and doesn't
> > >> come back with anything.
> > >>
> > >> Am I doomed to surf with only windoze, I really don't understand why its
> > not
> > >> working! Please help if you can!
> > >
> > >1. look for help pages for your ISP. Mine had the perfect pppd setup
> > >already written down in the help pages. I found this AFTER I connected
> > >with xisp. Calling customer support might help, but mine was clueless
> > >about it even though it was right there in the webpages.
> > >
> > >2. Failing that...try xisp. It worked from the first time I used it.
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From: Harry and Elaine Bogucki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help: telnet/ftp timeouts
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:05:45 -0500
Just installed Red Hat 5.2 on pentium 166 64Mb using 3Com Etherlink III
card. Installed fine but when I try telnet/ftp from a workstation on the
net (Win95: telnet/ftp) the connection hangs until it almost (1-5
seconds) times out. Total time before any response is about 60-75
seconds. I tried some other cards (3Com Etherlink II and an SMC
(WD8013EDT compatible) with same results. Funny thing is that you can
hit the apache/web server with no delay/problem. Any ideas???
Harry Bogucki
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help: telnet/ftp timeouts
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:01:16 -0600
Harry and Elaine Bogucki wrote:
> Just installed Red Hat 5.2 on pentium 166 64Mb using 3Com Etherlink III
> card. Installed fine but when I try telnet/ftp from a workstation on the
> net (Win95: telnet/ftp) the connection hangs until it almost (1-5
> seconds) times out. Total time before any response is about 60-75
> seconds. I tried some other cards (3Com Etherlink II and an SMC
> (WD8013EDT compatible) with same results. Funny thing is that you can
> hit the apache/web server with no delay/problem. Any ideas???
>
> Harry Bogucki
This sounds like the FAQ - reverse DNS lookup. Define all your hosts in
/etc/hosts and if you are using a resolver make sure its available.
Hope this helps
Regards
Bill
--
William R. Mattil | Fred Astaire wasn't so great.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 256-3219 | and... in high heels.
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From: "Tom Hulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card error
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:13:49 -0500
Is it connected to a hub? Do you have a link light on?
When an ethernet card sends a packet out onto the network it expects to see
its own data on its receive lines. If you are not connected to a hub the
data will not be present on the receive lines.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Denis Arquette wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have been searching the web for an answer to this and have come up empty
>handed. Any help would be greatly appreciated as my boss is looking for a
>solution asap. I loaded Linux using Paul sery's book and it all seems to
>work well but I keep getting this error on the console: eth0: transmit
timed
>out, Tx_status 00 status 2000 Tx FIFO room 1448. I am using a known good
>3com509c card. Thanks
>
>
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From: Nama Gua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mail servers in Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:45:14 +0800
Aaron Saikovski wrote:
> Can anyone help me out??
> I am looking to setup a stable mail server and was wondering what choices
> are available in linux.
> I am currently using MS Exchange, and want to see if Linux can do a better
> job.
> Also is the email server configuration a hard task?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Saikovski
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qmail for easier configurations
Fredy
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From: Greg Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:01:25 +0000
Just plain wierdness is my naming scheme for Unix boxes
Tunaboat
skippy
gizmo
flip
sandwich
My Metaframe cluster servers are named earth, wind, fire, and water.
I started setting those up the day after I saw "The Fifth Element" :-)
NT Boxes are muppets, and the novell guy names his servers after planets
and other celestial type stuff.
Before we started at the company the servers had the ingenious naming
scheme of Company Name, type of OS, number. Ie- HRMNT1. yuck.
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From: "Art Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Memorex Telex 1476, 1489 with Linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:23:57 GMT
You could also use Wyse 50s, VT terminals, even TANDEM terminals if you
go into the terminal's configuration menu and set it to ANSI or TTY. (The
Tandem
6530 is not supported by any UNIX systems unless they are running TN6530 and
connected to a Tandem host.)
Per Gustav Ousdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I have a couple of terminals, Memorex Telex 1476 and 1489. I think they
used to be connected to an IBM AS-400.
>My question is: Is it a all possible to run any of these terminals
>connected to my Linux Box?
>
>If so, what kind of terminal would I tell getty to expect?
>
>At least the 1489 seems to have serial port (RS-232) , can anyone confirm
this?
>
>My 1476's only seems to have some strange network connector. Is this
>"thick ethernet"?
>
>If this is at all possible, any help on the setup (config) of the terminals
would also be greatly apreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Per
>
>
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,ar.linux,at.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhad.misc
Subject: Re: Home LINUX netserver question.
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:49:57 GMT
Warwick wrote:
> Hi
> I just obtained Redhat 5.2 and intend to use it as a "netserver" for a
> small LAN
> I am faily new to LINUX and was wondering if someone cold point me in
> the general direction re: packages/programs to use and any other tips
> Considering I would like to have the following.
>
> 1: The LINUX box will hook up to my ISP ( unlimited account ) on demand
> (from one of 3 win98 boxes)
>
> 2: My ISP will assign a different IP every time I connect
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Warwick
You will find tips on a minimal setup like yours on my homepage:
http://www.magma.ca/~bklimas/
This will be insufficient for everything that you may require, but
it should get you an easier start (I hope).
Hope this helps. Best regards,
b.k.
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From: "equality7-2125" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix Quote of the month
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:17:38 -0000
You couldn't find your arse with both hands and a map.
>> I dunno about you, but when someone writes a program for my company, I
>> like to think they know the fscking language their "writing" it in. Same
>
>Shouldn't it be the're? Talking about the language they are writing in.
You have the arrogance to suggest that whoever posted a valid question
should read a dictionary. If *I* were to do such a thing, then I would make
sure that I too had read one, and also understood the way that *grammar*
works in English language before posting my reply. You presumably are
looking for:
They're or they are
You pedant, does it seem easy to make mistakes now?
C.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D. Silverio)
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
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:48:48 GMT
At one place we used to have "Name the Computer" contests and
give $50 to the winner. We only did it for the larger servers.
Our first RISC machine was named "risque" Everyone enjoyed
the contest and the winner enjoyed the money.
When I too up fly fishing I named a six system cluster after
fish and tackle. Trout, bass, carp, musike were the application
servers. The back end database servers were Fly and Hook.
My personal workstation is *ALWAYS* named smaug. My
second is Nessie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: NFS mystery
Date: 25 Feb 1999 02:53:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>I'm trying to NFS mount a plain Linux 2.0.35 machine's exported
>directory on a host sporting an AFS/DFS kernel extension, and the
>mount fails with the message:
>
> Feb 24 11:25:00 wizard nfsd[115]: NFS request from
>druid.watson.ibm.com originated on insecure port,
>psychoanalysis suggested
>
>in /usr/adm/syslog. The same directory mounts without a fuss on
>other hosts.
>
>Any suggestions as to what this means?
It means the mounting host originates NFS connections
from ports numbered above 1024. Not that using ports
below 1024 gives any real security anyway.
I get this from a Domain/OS host mounting a Linux export.
You need to use the "insecure" option in /etc/exports
to allow this host to mount the NFS export anyway.
See man 5 exports.
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From: LW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:12:19 -0500
Star Wars at work.
Yoda
Jabba
Ben
Darth.
Domains are cities/planets.
Death Star
Tatooine
Dagoba
Endor
At home I use a Doors variation.
Mojorising the main Linux box.
Mojomoving is my favorite laptop (running linux).
Mojowrithing is the windowz box (it puts me in pain).
ChiefMojoRising is the firewall/proxie/sniffer
TheEnd is the gaming server
Screamingbutterfly is my girlfriend's box, er uh computer
and then there is a windowz 3.11 box called Mojonixon....(I know, I
know)...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doodle)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:23:30 GMT
Hi all,
Thanks for all your suggestions etc. Much appreciated.
At the moment I can get Win98 to multilink my two V.90 modems to get a
10k/sec connection with my ISP. It works great but I want to move over
to Linux and this is one thing that's stopping.
My ISP is using some beta patch made available to them by 3com. This
patch on their end supports Win98's Multilink PPP connections. I want
to know if anybody has managed to get Linux to make use of two V.90
modems to get faster downloads.
So far it's been pretty difficult with this EQL thing. I'm a newbie
and want to use Linux. :-)
Thanks and regards,
Doodle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Keeney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: X-windows + IP Masq + IPFWADM
Date: 25 Feb 1999 00:27:02 GMT
Bill Weedon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Still no luck on configuring my filtering/masquerading
: firewall to pass X-windows clients. I know that
: X-windows uses ports 6000-6xxx (thanks John Edwards!).
: The problem is this. I have an X client outside my firewall.
: Let's say I want to run an xterm from a machine outside somewhere,
: and have a window pop up on a local machine inside my
: firewall. I set the DISPLAY variable on the external machine
: to point to my firewall (has to be, because there is no external
: DNS address for my local machine). How EXACTLY do I
: phrase the ipfwadm command to make the window pop up
: on my local machine?
: (i.e. how to set the -F/I/O, -S, -D, -P {-V, -W?}) switches).
I'd use SSH if possible, your X traffic won't be sent in the clear
and ssh with compression improves X proformance.
--
Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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