Linux-Networking Digest #319, Volume #10 Sat, 27 Feb 99 10:15:41 EST
Contents:
AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems (Joe MacDonald)
Samba load balancing with multiple NICs, how to? (Andreas Peetz)
Re: PCI modems in linux? ("John Hardin")
Re: rlogin vs. telnet (Dan Poynor)
Re: BIG network problem! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: compuserve dial-in script? (kAos)
ne card no longer detected (T.L. (Terry Branscombe))
Browser (attilio bernardi)
Re: PPP and USR (Kenneth Taylor)
Information anyone? ("Jimmy Bands")
@Home setup (matt)
Re: ?: how is the loopback created; please help (Robert Lynch)
ipautofw ("Johannes Plachy")
Re: Memorex Telex 1476, 1489 with Linux? (Per Gustav Ousdal)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Ernesto
=?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Ernesto
=?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: Firewall with 1 IP (Eduardo Perez)
named, named.conf example? (Robert Hendley)
Re: tn3270 connection?? (Lew Pitcher)
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:53:41 GMT
Anyone,
Here is my situation. About three months ago I purchased an AcerLan
ALN-101 PnP ISA ethernet card. It claims to be NE2000 compatible. I
plugged it into my motherboard, a no-name PIIX, VX chipset board with 4
ISA and 3 PCI slots. At the time I had a Pentium classic 120 cpu and 32
megs of EDO RAM. I compiled 2.0.35 with the NE2000 generic driver as a
module and bang, everything was five by five.
So earlier this week I finally decided to upgrade my machine. I now
have an Asus P5A-B motherboard (still an Award BIOS). There are 2 ISA
and 3 PCI slots on this beast. The chip is an AMD-K6-2 350 and I've
installed 32 megs of PC100 RAM.
I tried the same kernel and then tried recompiling the kernel (and
subsequently updating to 2.0.36) trying to get my card to work again.
Everything else is fine (no sound, mouse or video problems) and the
network card works just fine under NT, but when I boot up linux (where I
do 95% of my work) I get complaints that it cannot initialize my card.
It looks almost like I don't have any ethernet support compiled into the
kernel (either as a module or as a part of the kernel itself) with the
warnings, but I know better.
I'm not sure what I should be checking for IRQ and IObases for this card
since it claims to be PnP. There aren't any "preferred settings" I can
find in the (gatefold) manual that came with it, and I can't figure out
how to get NT to tell me what I want to know about it.
Can anyone suggest what my next step should be? My linux distro used to
be Slackware 3.3, but I've upgraded quite a bit since then. I've tried
to keep current with the Slackware distro, so it is mostly 3.6, but I
have newer versions of some of the GNU tools.
Thanks,
-Joe.
P.S. I know cross posting sucks, but I don't know if this is more a
networking or a hardware issue. To avoid needless noise, I'll happily
take e-mail replies and then follow up this with any success stories.
Although if anyone wants to post to usenet, that's fine with me.
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From: Andreas Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Samba load balancing with multiple NICs, how to?
Date: 27 Feb 1999 10:39:00 GMT
Hi all,
We want to run a Linux Samba server with three 100MBit-Ethernet
interfaces.
All interfaces will be in the same logical IP-subnet and they will all
be attached to a switch.
What's the best way to achieve a proper load balancing between all three
NICs?
One idea is to have different clients connect to the three different IPs
of the NICs. However, will Samba handle a client using the interface
that
the client connected to, or will it just use the system's routing table
to make the outgoing connections?
Any ideas, comments?
About our configuration: We are running Linux kernel 2.2.2 (on SuSE 6.0
distribution) and Samba 1.9.18p10. Unfortunately, we cannot use Samba
2.0
at the moment, because it doesn=B4t properly handle our clients (about 25=
Windows Terminal Servers).
Greetings,
Andreas
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From: "John Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:37:26 -0800
Doug wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can a PCI modem be used in linux?
Zzzzz.... *snort* Wha...?
Why in the world would you need a 60+MHz parallel bus to talk to a device
pumping bits serially at less than 60kHz?
In addition, you can't power-cycle a wedged internal bus modem to reset it.
--
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If you spend any time administering Windows NT, you're far too
familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) ...
- "MSDN Flash" email newsletter, 2/9/1999
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Poynor)
Subject: Re: rlogin vs. telnet
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:54:47 -0800
Besides security issues, how is ssh better than rlogin and telnet?
Thanks,
DAN
In article <7b4hgs$9dm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Holub) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> )Are there any pros or cons to using either rlogin or telnet?
>
> Yes, there are lots of cons to both of them. Use ssh.
> -Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BIG network problem!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:10:16 GMT
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:32:44 -0800, Stephen Loewinsohn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sounds like it could be an resource conflict on either one of he machines. Just a
>thought.
>
>-Steve
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I wonder if anyone could help me with the following:
>>
>> Win98 box connected directly (crossover 10BaseT) to Linux box (RedHat5.2,
>> 2.2.0 kernel). I use IP masquerading to access the internet through the linux
>> box (33.6Kbps modem), which works fine (a bit slow). I've also got some Samba
>> shares going.
>>
>> However, Samba, FTP, and even HTTP transfers from the Linux box to the Win98
>> box are DOG slow! Win98 to Linux transfers are lightning fast, so it would
>> appear to be a one-way problem.
>>
>> There's an SMC Ultra in the Win98 box and a D-Link (Digital chipset using
>> tulip.o from 2.2) under RedHat. The reason I'm getting really frustrated is
>> that I can't even receive a smooth shoutcast mp3 stream from the linux box,
>> which puts the Linux -> Win98 transfer rate at UNDER 128Kbps. And there isn't
>> even anyone else on the network!!
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas, I would LOVE to hear them!
>>
>> cheers
>> ben
>>
sorry, missed orig post...
I would search altavista about linux -> win98 troubles. There have
been previous posts in the past regarding this problem. I believe the
problem had something to do with the MTU or sume such junk on the
linux side to get it to work at faster speeds with win98. I use a
similar setup across BNC (coax) but don't seem to suffer these
problems. looks to be common though.
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From: kAos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compuserve dial-in script?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:08:23 GMT
Hello Ralph,
Thanks for the info, this WAS the problem (and the too short time-out period).
Cheers,
Akos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T.L. (Terry) Branscombe)
Subject: ne card no longer detected
Date: 27 Feb 99 07:51:43 GMT
Please HELP!
I have an ne2000 clone that had been working wonderfully until yesterday.
It has suddenly been rendered undetectable at boot. I have Win95 on another
partition, and the card still works fine there. My Linux is Caldera
OpenLinux Lite 1.1: a 2.0.29 kernel.
The Ethernet HOWTO suggested I pass LILO some boot line parameters, which
I did (ether=12,0x300,eth0), but that had no effect. The same boot
messages appear as before. They are:
[snip]
Mounting local filesystems...
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
SIOCSIFADDR: no such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: no such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: no such device
SIOCADDRT: no such device
Mounting remote filesystems...
[snip]
This happened once a few months back. I re-installed Caldera 1.1 to get
the card back, but I lost a lot of work :-<
If anyone has suggestions for recovering the use of my NIC without
reinstalling, I'd appreciate it. Many thanks.
--
+------------------+
Terrence Branscombe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: attilio bernardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Browser
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:26:16 +0100
On a LAN there are win95 and winnt workstations.There is also a linux
server with samba.
There are a lot of groups.
I want that a user on a group see only computers of the same group
and only the linux file server when open network neighbours.
How could i do that ?
Thanks to spend time for me
A.Bernardi
http://www.eei.it
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From: Kenneth Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP and USR
Date: 27 Feb 1999 01:31:26 GMT
Ron,
Try these settings-->
ATM1
ATQ0
ATX4
ATS0=0
AT&C1
AT&S0
AT&B0
And Finally (If your modem has NVRAM):
AT&W
You will have to check these against your V.90 Manual of 'AT' Commands
to see if all of these commands are valid. I would make sure you cut 'echo'
on (ATE1). There also might be some V.90 specific functions you need to cut
on.
-KEN
Ron Roberts wrote:
> I have a USR 56K faxmodem V.90 external. It doesn't say courier or
> sportster or winmodem(I checked). Does anyone have the initialization
> string that I should use to get this modem to dial a PPP connection?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Please respond to email address.
>
>
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From: "Jimmy Bands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Information anyone?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:45:21 +1100
Hi,
Can anyone suggest any good sites dealing with networking a Win95/98 machine
to a Linux one. I have sought this information in the HOWTO's and the
mini-HOWTO's but while I got close, the info didn't quite work for me.
www.linux.org and www.redhat.com didn't help too much either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Jimmy
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From: matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: @Home setup
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:29:29 GMT
I currently have @home setup in win95. I am trying to set it up in RH
5.2 but I can't get dhcp working. During bootup after the card is
recognized correctly. I get the message:
Using DHCP for eth0...failed
I believe everything is setup correctly.
My ethernet card is a 3com 3C900 (Etherlink XL PCI) if that helps.
TIA,
Matt
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:52:17 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?: how is the loopback created; please help
ronald s chong wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:02:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ronald s chong)
> wrote:
>
> > hi there. i recently upgraded from rh4.2 to rh5.2 and have since
> > upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1. i have no loopback on bootup.
>
> well, i solved the problem. i startup in runlevel 5 in order to make
> X start automagically on bootup. i discovered that /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
> did not have a link to the network start script (/etc/init.d/network).
>
> so i just needed to do:
>
> cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
> ln -s ../init.d/network S10network
>
> btw, i noticed rc3.d/ did have this link to start the network. level 3
> is the default startup runlevel (specified in /etc/inittab) for a
> redhat install, hence why it would be in rc3.d.
Hey, this helped a lot. I installed RH5.2 with a network config, yet
there was no link in rc3.d.
It's interested that, at least in my experience of screwing around
*forever*, you can not get a caching nameserver going without this
interface... I had figured out that this was the problem and hacked a
solution by bringing the interface up in the named script, just before
named itself was started.
It's a bit nicer this way... ;-)
> after the above fix, all is as it should have been. i think this *MAY*
> a redhat bug; they don't have this link in rc5.d. <shrug>
>
> -ron
Yup, I agree: it's a bug (maybe a double one, counting my experience).
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: "Johannes Plachy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipautofw
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:36:41 GMT
hi,
i am new to linux and glad I made it so far...
I am using redhad 2.0.36
and ipfwadm let my local machines all connect to the internet that works
fine !
Now I want to map incoming requests from several ports directly to a given
machine on my intranet.
I tried IPAUTOFW but always get the message 'setsockopt' not available.
What do I have to do else ? ( I did NOT recompile my kernel to make
masquerading work !)
any ideas ?
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From: Per Gustav Ousdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Memorex Telex 1476, 1489 with Linux?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:46:30 +0100
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Scott G. Hall wrote:
Sorry for the delay of my reply... Busy U know :)
> Per Gustav Ousdal wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, these are not synchronous or asynchronous RS-232 terminals.
Ah, RATS! :( Ok I see, I was araid of that... :/ I didn't have to high
hopes about the 1476's, I was hopeing there was a way for the 1489 seeing
the serial port, but I guess not :( Oh well, at least I got a working SVGA
monitor + nice work out bringing them home ;)
[....]
> > My 1476's only seems to have some strange network connector. Is this
> > "thick ethernet"?
>
> No, this is IBM's "biaxial" connector, used for their mainframes.
I see. There does seem to be some adaptors for these, looks like they
"change" the cable into TP (Twisted Pair) could this be correct? (Would
make sense to use TP cable instead, as the "IBM cabeling" does not seem to
be very elegant. Or is this "TP" cable also an "IBM-standard"?
> Both of these terminals were forms-based, meaning the host would download
> a form for each screen, and the terminal was expected to handle user input
> and validation. When a form was filled out by the user, the <Send> key
> would be pressed to send the whole form back to the mainframe (or in some
> cases, just the answers in a forms-arranged protocol).
I see, so they aren't very useful at all :/ Unless some one is throwing
away an AS-400. Or some one makes an AS-400 emulator for linux... I've
heard however that the AS-400 is difficult to emulate b'coz of the HW
solutions.
> You want a cheap (~ $35) ASCII serial terminal (synch or async; RS423 or
> RS232, or RS422/RS485). Almost any terminal that was *NOT* connected to
> an IBM or clone (Amdahl, Sperry/Univac, Wang, etc) will work just fine.
> In fact, I saw a set of old Data General terminals and Prime Computer
> terminals the other day that would work just fine (stick them in TVI-925
> or TVI-950 mode and any UNIX won't have a problem).
I C. Think IBM used to have a pretty big marked share over here in Norway
though, so it's just so much easier to come by IBM terminals. I think most
terminals just end up in the trash, doesn't seem to be a marked for them
over here. However I would love to have a couple connected to my linux
box.
Any one from Norway know where to get terminals that work with linux?
Regards,
Per
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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,vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 27 Feb 1999 02:24:19 GMT
Jack Troughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 04:30:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
: wrote:
: �Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: �> At work, I use the user's login name so I can keep track of them.
: �> Pretty boring, but I spice up the place other ways (at the moment,
: �> for example, I'm playing a cd - Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti)
: �
: �Wow, a rebel among us. Watch out, everyone.
I name my machines after rock groups, symphonic for the servers, whatever
for the workstations. Hence I have genesis, yes, jethro (my own), zeppelin,
asia, marillion and queen. I've also mixed some solo singers and local
music artists from Venezuela.
Other networks I've named have used names of rivers, names of mountains,
disney characters and/or Start Trek characters (overused, don't do it :-),
and even insults (expletives) in spanish...
--
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #9945705
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.2.1
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die! What would yo do without your freedom?
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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,vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 27 Feb 1999 14:13:47 GMT
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I name my machines after rock groups, symphonic for the servers, whatever
: for the workstations. Hence I have genesis, yes, jethro (my own), zeppelin,
: asia, marillion and queen. I've also mixed some solo singers and local
: music artists from Venezuela.
: Other networks I've named have used names of rivers, names of mountains,
: disney characters and/or Start Trek characters (overused, don't do it :-),
: and even insults (expletives) in spanish...
I forgot to add Tolkien characters, Jupiter's satellites (that at college),
dairy products (don't ask :-) and "nut" names (as in peanut, almond, etc)
--
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #9945705
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.2.1
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die! What would yo do without your freedom?
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From: Eduardo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Firewall with 1 IP
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:06:13 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> - My ISP has asigned me 1 static IP.
> - I have a LAN, and 3 NT Web servers on it that I want to make available to
> Inet with 192.168.X.X IPs.
> - I want to put a Linux RedHat 5.2 based firewall before the LAN.
>
> Would it be possible with just 1 IP, maybe with IP Masquerading or should I
> ask for a Class C Network?
>
> Answers will be welcome by private e-mail.
>
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You can't expect anybody out of your intranet to reach your servers if
they are in a private network like 192.168.X.X; and you cannot use
public IP's unless you pay for them.
However, you can use xinetd to redirect external calls to your Linux
firewall to your NT servers. This way, only your proxy can be reached,
requests are serviced by your NT servers. From out of your network,
people will see 3 web servers at the same public IP (on different
ports), but each one will be of the NT servers.
I hope this helps.
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From: Robert Hendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: named, named.conf example?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:15:17 -0700
When starting named under caldera 1.3 distrabution it is asking for a
named.conf file. What is it soposed to contain or can someone send me an
example. I have 3 nameservers running already on DSD boxes and have
never had to setup a named.conf file.
Thanks Robert Hendley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: tn3270 connection??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:32:24 GMT
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:20:21 -0500, Michael Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>My university uses IBM mainframes for the registration database and the
>library catalog. They have software for Windows users to download in
>order to connect.
>
>I was looking on the Netscape page and in the *Pro* edition they have
>some sort of plug-in to onnect with tn3270, but I don't have that
>edition.
>
>Does anyone know how I can connect to these systems?
Slackware 3.3 came with x3270, a tn3270 client for X.
You can get it from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/
(the self-proclaimed Official x3270 Home Page)
or from http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/X11/contrib/applications/x3270/
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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