Linux-Networking Digest #411, Volume #10 Sun, 7 Mar 99 08:15:03 EST
Contents:
Help - route table needed (Ron Black)
ISDN and Kernel 2.2 (Roland Bauerschmidt)
3COM 3c509b PROBLEMS (fwd) (Justin C Miranda)
Re: Linux as a router to replace school NT4 box? (Stefano Del Cont)
Re: modem suggestions? (Rolf Kjoeller)
Please: I can't automate my dialup-connection, PPP doesn't start (Rolf Kjoeller)
setting up multicast routing... ("Jarrett")
Re: leafnode dumping core (xcitor)
IP-masquerading (Joachim Henn)
Re: Please help: how do I setup Linux for sending e-mails with Netscape? (John
Thompson)
Re: RedHat Control panel runaway. (Glen Ward)
Re: analyse of TCPDUMP Trace (fred anger)
Re: SAMBA, please? (David Kirkpatrick)
SSH Question ("Derek Kwan - http://Derek.KWAN.on.ca")
Windows98 Networking ("Phil Williams")
Re: TWO NICs Routing Problem??? (Ralf G. R. Bergs)
Re: How does one block access according to MAC address? (Erik Hensema)
Re: init script for sshd? (RedHat 5.2 Linux) (Georg Schwarz)
How do I boot Monitor-less 486 without a login and then... ? (IanP)
Re: how to connect 3 computers? ("A.G.")
Re: Please: I can't automate my dialup-connection, PPP doesn't start (Rolf Kjoeller)
Re: How do I boot Monitor-less 486 without a login and then... ? (Ville Nummela)
Re: false error and drop readings from ifconfig? ("A.G.")
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From: Ron Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help - route table needed
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 05:25:53 -0500
We are trying to get a linux box to route but are not having luck -
we set two cards in a red hat Kernal 2.0.35 box they are both working:
how can we tell if ip forwarding is turned on ?
where are the network startup parameter files ?
will someone forward us a set of route commands that will let users on
the 10 net get to the 100 net and vice versa
TIA -
Ronney Black
CCS
Network A -
eth0 100.100.100.109
broadcast 100.255.255.255
netmask 255.0.0.0
Network B
eth1 10.3.204.252
broacast 10.255.255.255
netmask 255.0.0.0
/sbin/ifconfig displays
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:29:3F:AC
inet addr:100.100.100.109 Bcast:100.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:3723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x280
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:6C:6E:92
inet addr:10.3.204.252 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:926 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
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From: Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN and Kernel 2.2
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:46:42 +0100
Hallo,
I've a problem with Kernel 2.2 and ISDN. With Kernel 2.0.36 I could
configure the dialmode option manual with Kernel 2.2 it isn't possible.
Does anyone know where to get the actual ISDN subsystem for Kernel 2.2?
Roland
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From: Justin C Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3COM 3c509b PROBLEMS (fwd)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 05:55:50 -0500
I've been attempting to configure my 3com 3c509b network card for about
three weeks now with no success. I have literally tried everything and
the damn thing still won't work. For starters, I'm running red hat 5.2 on
a gateway p5 (pentium 133). I've read every single HOWTO on ethernet,
networking, ipx, etc, have read a bunch of posts on several different
newsgroups and while I've come close to figuring out what's wrong, I've
always found my way back to the drawing board. At the moment, my problem
is that dhcpcd is not returning an ip address for my card to use...( i.e
the ip address remains at 0.0.0.0 ). However, I think there is another
issue involved (in other words, I don't think that dhcpcd is the part
that's screwed up). And just for anyone's information the ip forwarding
protocol is not enabled (and I'm not sure how to enable it either). I'm
running off a LAN on campus, using an RJ-45 cable (plugged into a wall
adapter - no 10-baseT hub). Oh, and I've disabled PnP. [FYI - The card
works fine with Windows 95].
I've provided some useful information from several files below. Please
send me any suggestions. I'm practically at my wit's end. If you need to
see some other information, let me know and I will provide it. Thanks in
advance.
================
/etc/resolv.conf
================
search cc.columbia.edu columbia.edu
nameserver 128.59.39.2
nameserver 128.59.35.156
nameserver 128.59.35.88
nameserver 128.59.39.39
=================
/etc/conf.modules
=================
alias eth0 3c509
options eth0 irq=10
=================
dmesg - abridged
=================
...
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
hdb: hdb1 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap:
128484k swap-space (priority -1) sysctl: ip forwarding off Swansea
University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 IPX Portions Copyright
(c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 eth0: 3c509 at
0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 d8 69 a1, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16
2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
ARP: arp called for own IP address ARP: arp called for own IP address ARP:
arp called for own IP address eth0: Setting Rx mode to 0 addresses.
===========================================================
ifconfig - After logging in as root, I ran ifconfig and noticed that eth0
was not up ... so then I ran 'ifconfig eth0 up' and 'dhcpcd' (to try to
get a valid ip address
===========================================================
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
===========================================================
output after running 'ifconfig eth0 up' and 'dhcpcd
===========================================================
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:D8:69:A1
inet addr:0.0.0.0 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:0.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:19
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
===================
cat /proc/net/dev
===================
[root@localhost linux]# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 108 0 0 0 0 108 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 34
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From: Stefano Del Cont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux as a router to replace school NT4 box?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:00:21 +0100
Andy wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> >I have installed a Linux router connecting two subnets with about 20 and
> 100
> >nodes. The hardware is an old '486/66 with no hardisk, no monitor, and no
> >keyboard. It works very fine. On this router I have also configured IPX
> >routing, firewalling and masquerading services. The entire Linux software
> is
> >located on a single bootable floppy disk. I found all needed informations
> on
> >the commonly available HOWTOs.
> >
> >Ciao
> >Stefano
> >
> Any possibility of being posted the floppy?, please.
>
> and to think I was concerned that the 100MB hard drives in our old 386/486's
> would be too small!
> Regards,
> Andy
Yes, I will mail you a copy of the floppy (formatted at 1680 kByte). Give me
one or two days to translate some instructions for using it (the instructions
are actually in italian). The floppy also contains a web server (boa) for
remote inspection and a telnet daemon for remote administration. All software
runs from a 4 MByte ramdisk installed during boot phase (PC needs a minimum of
12 MByte RAM). I use this floppy also for connecting to Internet an entire LAN
using only one dynamic IP assigned by provider.
Ciao
Stefano
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Kjoeller)
Subject: Re: modem suggestions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:27:14 GMT
On 7 Mar 1999 04:42:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Cornett)
wrote:
>Any external modem will work or an internal modem that is configurable
>with jumper pins, such as USR or Acer ITU ISA modems.
I have a Wisecom internal ws5614. It's ISA, and you can turn off pnp
and select it's interrupt by setting dipswitches; very nice. Not too
expensive, either.
Rolf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Kjoeller)
Subject: Please: I can't automate my dialup-connection, PPP doesn't start
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:27:15 GMT
I can't get my Usernet-dialupconnection to work.
I can log in to my isp through Minicom, typing
the same commands as are found in the scripts,
but not with Usernet. Everything works fine up
until authorization, then this happens:
Mar 7 12:00:22 rok chat[358]: timeout set to 10 seconds
Mar 7 12:00:22 rok chat[358]: expect (~)
Mar 7 12:00:22 rok chat[358]: ^M
Mar 7 12:00:22 rok chat[358]: ^M
Mar 7 12:00:32 rok chat[358]: alarm
Mar 7 12:00:32 rok chat[358]: send (^M)
Mar 7 12:00:32 rok chat[358]: send (^M)
Mar 7 12:00:32 rok pppd[356]: Serial connection established.
Mar 7 12:00:33 rok pppd[356]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 7 12:00:33 rok pppd[356]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Mar 7 12:01:03 rok pppd[356]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Mar 7 12:01:03 rok pppd[356]: Connection terminated.
Mar 7 12:01:03 rok pppd[356]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Mar 7 12:01:03 rok pppd[356]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Mar 7 12:01:04 rok pppd[356]: Exit.
There is a timeout of sorts, and then I get the serial-error.
Increasing the timeout to 30 seconds doesn't change anything.
In Minicom the serialport is configured as 115.200, 8,1 .
I checked the serial-HOWTO but didn't find anything about
the bit/parity-settings, only how to change speedsetting .
Any help is very much appreciated.
Rolf
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From: "Jarrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: setting up multicast routing...
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:56:42 -0700
Hello, I'm a new user of linux and have been building a linux router in my
testing lab. I have basic routing working fine between two subnets. I've
recompiled the kernel using v2.2.2 according to the FAQs on multicast
routing. The FAQ seems to indicate that simple multicast routing will work
as long as the kernel is compiled correctly and the routing table on the
linux machine has a route for 224.0.0.0 with a subnet of 240.0.0.0 using
interface eth1. If this is correct, I must be missing something, because
multicast packets aren't getting through to the other subnet (eth1). I have
a tunl0 (IP tunneling) interface because I compiled that in the kernel, but
the FAQ indicated that this was only needed if using mrouted. Is that the
case? If I do need to set up tunl0, how is it to be configured?
The FAQ seems to indicate that mrouted is only used if you want to control
what multicasting gets routed and which does not. If I have to set this up
as well, I'm not real good at working with the source code and could use
some help in getting it compiled to run on RedHat 5.2n with kernel v2.2.2.
As stated above, I also am not familiar with how to set up the tunneling
interface that mrouted supposedly needs.
Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor)
Subject: Re: leafnode dumping core
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 06:43:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:25:41 -0600,
Greg Weeks wrote
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor) writes:
>> leafnode (1.9) just started dumping core on me, or I should say fetch:
>>
>> [news@axel news]$ fetch
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>You might try fetch -vvvv to get more debug info out of fetch. The
>most common reason for fetch to segment fault is a badly corrupted
>message in out.going or a corrupted groupinfo file. You might also try
>asking this question on the leafnode mailing list.
Actually, that's a good point - I forgot about the verbose option at
the time. I think I found out what the problems was. Every now and
again, I will run fetch from the command line. When I do I call it as
follows: # nohup fetch &. This creates a nohup.out in whatever
directory I call it from. Well, I wasn't paying attention to what I
was doing, and called it from /var/spool/news/interesting.groups.
Therefore, fetch was trying to get a newsgroup called nohup.out.
I'm not sure this should cause it to dump core, but then again, I
probably shouldn't be doing that :-).
--
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-- George Meredith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Henn)
Subject: IP-masquerading
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:55:46 +0100
Hello,
I have a brandnew Suse Linux Server set up. Now I want to set up
IP-Masquerading to use my Linux Server as an "Gateway" to the internet
for my other clients in my home-network.
1.) Where can I get a good description of Installing an maintaining
IP-Masquerading
2.) Since my ISDN connecting was automatically configured - since using
YAst - to dial into my ISP I am searching for another tool which gives
me the ability to manually dial in to my ISP
3.) I am searching for a tool to monitor my ISDN connection - I want to
know when it is up and doen how big is the bandwidth and so on.
Thanks a lot for your help
:-)
Joachim
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help: how do I setup Linux for sending e-mails with Netscape?
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 22:01:21 -0600
Rolf Kjoeller wrote:
>
> On Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:03:46 +0000, David Kirkpatrick
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are ppp setup - dial into the ISP then setup the mail
> >server names after your online. NS looks for what you entered
> >and if your not online cannot find them.
> >d
>
> Thanks a lot, David; I hoped it would be that simple.
> I'v been a Windows-user for many years, so I took
> it for granted, that I could set this off-line. Funny thing, though,
> since I could set the POP3-server without any problems...
If you point the Netscape smtp parameter to localhost (or
whatever your local hostname is) and have sendmail running,
sendmail will spool your outbound mail on your disk until
you connect when you can empty the mail queue with "sendmail
-q"
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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:56:43 +0800
From: Glen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat Control panel runaway.
Erwann,
I need the Xserver to start, as my connection is via an xTerminal.
Glen
Erwann ABALEA wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Glen Ward wrote:
>
> > I have a RH5.2 firewall system setup with no monitor, keyboard or mouse,
> > but have Xfree86 running to serve my x-term network connection.
> > Most times on connection I see one or more processes named
> > 'control panel (something-or-other)' using up a lot of CPU time, so I
> > kill it.
> >
> > Is there some way of preventing this process from starting ?
>
> If your machine has no monitor, no keyboard, and no mouse, then there's no
> need for it to start the X Server... Just don't start the X server...
>
> --
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: analyse of TCPDUMP Trace
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:57:21 GMT
[posted and emailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> is there a tool available to analyze the output of TCPDUMP data ?
>
tcpshow can be found here:
http://ftp.fh-schmalkalden.de/pub/unix/tools/net/tcpshow/tcpshow.c.gz
--
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA, please?
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 12:09:03 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From linux --> MS its not as nice as MS --> Linux. You can
smbmount MS drives to linux and get an "ftp like" interface for
transfering files. For managing files its much better to be on
the NT side and manipulate Linux shares from the Explorer.
For seemless operation for Linux --> NT the easier thing would
be to mount MS shares as linux file systems with NFS - no Samba.
James Wanless wrote:
>
> How easy is this using RedHat5.2 to "see" (MS)windows machines on a
> LAN - I haven't succeeded yet. Any pointers, please?
>
> --
>
> James Wanless
> http://www.jwanless.freeserve.co.uk
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From: "Derek Kwan - http://Derek.KWAN.on.ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSH Question
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 17:13:35 GMT
Hello World,
1) I want to install SSH daemon (i.e. replace telnetd). Where I can find
the source/binary for that?
2) Where I can find a SSH Client that run on Linux?
3) Where I can find a SSH Client that run on Windowz?
Any other thing I should beaware of?
Derek
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From: "Phil Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Windows98 Networking
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:24:12 +0800
I'm involved in a LAN at work, all independently running Windows98 (no
server, all stand-alones).
How can I run my system using redhat linux 5.2 on the network to share
printers etc.
I have the same network card has the others in the network
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralf G. R. Bergs)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: TWO NICs Routing Problem???
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:57:50 -0500, "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
Have you enabled ip forwarding?
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Hensema)
Subject: Re: How does one block access according to MAC address?
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 14:48:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kent wrote:
>I was wondering if there was a way to block access not via IP address but by
>Mac address, or to be more specific allowing only certian Mac addressed lan
>cards to have access to a linux box and ignoring all other MAC address
>numbers if they dont match the "OK" list?
I don't know, but MAC adresses can be set by software, and therefore be
spoofed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh
Subject: Re: init script for sshd? (RedHat 5.2 Linux)
Date: 7 Mar 1999 12:39:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)) writes:
>Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Has anybody written a "System V style" startup script (for init.d) for
>>sshd? (I'm using RedHat 5.2 Linux)
>I'd be very surprised if there weren't one included with the SSH RPMs on the
>Red Hat crypto site (http://www.replay.com/redhat/).
Oops, I didn't know an RPM for ssh existed. I'd been looking in vain on
ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/.
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From: IanP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I boot Monitor-less 486 without a login and then... ?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 04:47:39 +1000
I have a shiny new PII with two hard disks, the first with windows 98
and the second with Redhat 5.1. networking (soon) with my faithful old
486. I want the 486 to boot without asking for a login and password,
being monitorless. The purpose being that I want to telnet (or if there
is something better...?) from Windows on the PII to a minimal Linux
installtion on the 486 which will have the PII's Linux partitions
mounted on it allowing me to use the programs on the PII.
Is there a more efficient way to do this? I would appreciate any
pointers in the right direction, thanks.
Ian P.
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to connect 3 computers?
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:51:17 GMT
I don't know if it helps, but I used to have almost the same problem - 2
computers with NE2000 cards, and the speeds were slow and inconsistent under
Linux, but better under NT.
I found out that it was because of the settings in EEPROMs of the cards -
they were set for "automatic" duplex mode. When I changed both cards to
"full duplex", the speed improved drastically (x2) and is very consistent
now.
The cards worked better under NT, because drivers for NT take care of the
full-duplex/half-duplex selection (provided that it's set to "auto" in the
eeprom setup).
So, you might want to check settings in your NIC's setup.
Arcady
>> I have 3 computers, and they are networked together like this..
>>
>> [ ] -----------[ ] -------------[ ]
>> B A C
>>
>> The middle one (A) being the one with the modem and I have IP-Masq
>> setup so that the other 2 can connect to the net thru it.
>>
>> The cables used are both 20m cables, with BNC connectors.
>>
>> However the network is SLOOOW....I dual boot my system with Win98
>> (sorry guys..I know it sux...but there are more games ma...Linux still
>> rulez!!) And when playing something like Quake2 over the network,
>> either computer A or B (when played with only 2 computers) will
>> disconnected and then exits the current deathmatch. It happens with
>> other games too, not just Quake2.
>>
>> And browsing on the net is quite slow too...
>>
>> So I suspect that it is the way I connect the computers? Or are the
>> cables too long? (but read somewhere that those cables I used can be
>> over 100m)
>>
>> I want to connect it in a ring...(will that helps??)
>>
>> B ----------- A ---------------C
>> \_________________/
>>
>> How do I do that? I have tried just connect the cables WITHOUT the
>> terminators, but it doesn't work...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Kjoeller)
Subject: Re: Please: I can't automate my dialup-connection, PPP doesn't start
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 13:02:31 GMT
OK, I got PPP running, I had to put some more
commands in chat-ppp0. But: I get disconnected
very quickly after PPP has started, and I have found out
that this happens both when logging in manually with
Minicom and when using Usernet.
Does pppd[540]: Modem hangup
mean that my modem or the ISP's modem hangs up?
What could be the cause?
The following are the messages I get after ppp
has started:
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: send (ppp^M)
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: expect (~)
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: ppp^M
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: Entering PPP mode.^M
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: Async interface address is unnumbered
(Loopback0)^M
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: Your IP address is 195.82.193.233. MTU
is 1500 bytes^M
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: Header compression will match your
system.^M
Mar 7 13:02:12 rok chat[542]: ^M
Mar 7 13:02:15 rok chat[542]: ~
Mar 7 13:02:15 rok chat[542]: -- got it
Mar 7 13:02:15 rok chat[542]: send (^M)
Mar 7 13:02:15 rok pppd[540]: Serial connection established.
Mar 7 13:02:16 rok pppd[540]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 7 13:02:16 rok pppd[540]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Mar 7 13:02:19 rok pppd[540]: Modem hangup
Mar 7 13:02:19 rok pppd[540]: Connection terminated.
Mar 7 13:02:20 rok pppd[540]: Exit.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Rolf
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From: Ville Nummela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I boot Monitor-less 486 without a login and then... ?
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:38:14 +0200
On 6 Mar 1999, Super C5 wrote:
> drive in your 486 if you know how or know someone that does. The only problem
> there is your 486 might not be able to recognize it if it's too big.
> I hope I was of some help to you.
Just a little reminder: Linux does *not* use bios for HDD recognition. It
will read the values BIOS offers if BIOS offers them though, and uses them
as startup values. So even if BIOS doesn't know how to use big HDDs, Linux
does. As long as kernel is within the first 1024 cylinders (eg. the are
which BIOS can "see") everything goes fine (BIOS is used to boot up the
kernel anyway).
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: false error and drop readings from ifconfig?
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:59:19 GMT
I read in some post that it's a common thing when using a 2.2.x kernel with
an incompatible version of nettools.
Read docs for 2.2.x and upgrade your nettools to correct version
Arcady
Steve Maring wrote in message <7boujg$k97$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>We compiled the 2.2.1 kernel on a bunch of boxes here and everything
>seems to be fine. However, when we do an "ifconfig -a" we get this:
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:348 dropped:6 overruns:0
>
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:55:66:FE
> inet addr:172.17.42.50 Bcast:172.17.42.255
>Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:98561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:16111418 dropped:78879 overruns:0
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xfc80
>
>Notice the extreme TX errors and drops. We don't, however, notice any
>networking problems at the application level.
>
>Anybody know about this?
>
>--
>-Steve Maring
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>GTE Enterprise Solutions
>Tampa, FL USA
>
>
>
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