Linux-Networking Digest #686, Volume #10 Wed, 31 Mar 99 04:13:37 EST
Contents:
Re: token ring once more ! (Greg Weeks)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Pavel Kraus)
FS: PCMCIA FaxModem / Ethernet - Works great with Linux!!! (Adisak Pochanayon)
Problem with Diald (Voglhuber)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Paul Anderson)
network is busying for what? (digger)
Re: 3Com 509 won't go (detailed!) (Carles Arjona)
Re: more than one modem in a machine (Johan Kullstam)
Re: IBM EtherJet 10/100 is not running !!!!!!! (Zlatko Baumberger)
Re: Finding a process on a port ("Jim Laird")
Re: PLEASE HELP! Newbie to networking... (Jack Beatty)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Ian Hogben)
NFS problem - Solaris client, RH 5.2 server ("John Cartwright")
Can I test a blocked STP port? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mrtg reports almost exact amount of incoming and outgoing bytes per second on
CMU-SNMP equipped linuxbox (dont spam me)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: token ring once more !
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:12:02 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthieu Patou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello
> i(ve a win95 station but i'm adicted to linux.
> So i want to install and use linux at work appenrently all the software
> i'll need will be avaliable under linux but i often often use Lotus
> notes and so i need a link to the network.
> I'm connected to a token ring netword through a smart 16/4 PCI ring node
> ( BM) 2 Madge token ring card.
> It's an plug and play card under win95 it has the following adresse :
> io=0xDC00-DCFF and irq 9 ( which is shared with my AGP matrox G100 video
> card ), what can i do to be able to use it ?
The only Madge card that works with the built in TR driver is the True
Blue card. I think Madge may have drivers for the card you have. I
know they have a beta driver available for some of their PCI
cards. Olicom also has drivers for some of their cards. The email
address to contact inside madge is their european tech support
address. I couldn't find it when I went searching through my old
email.
Greg Weeks
--
http://durendal.tzo.com/greg/
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From: Pavel Kraus <[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, 31 Mar 1999 09:00:37 +0200
Fuzzy wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:03:06 -0800, "- AJS"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I use the mythology bent too. But I'm starting to run out of names.
> I've got about thirty servers, and I've used every Greek/Roman name I
> can think of, and even a few Egyptian ones. Anyone have any obscure
> ones they can contribute?
>
> Ciao
> Fuzzy
> ;-)
Try Slavic gods. Radagast, Vesna, Perun, Morana, Cernobog, Veles.
--
Pavel Kraus
CAA CR
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================
Sinister dexter est!
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Crossposted-To: chi.forsale,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.forsale
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adisak Pochanayon)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FS: PCMCIA FaxModem / Ethernet - Works great with Linux!!!
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 99 09:16:13 GMT
Have you ever thought about having a Linux connected laptop!?! I have an IBM
PCMCIA Home and Away Combo card for sale. Modem and ethernet connections can
be simultaneous connected through adapter with full size jacks. FaxModem
speed is 14.4 and ethernet speed is 10BT. Card also works with Windows 95,
OS/2, DOS. Asking $40.
adisak 847-885-0649
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From: Voglhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Diald
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:08:40 +0200
I am running a LAN with 192.168.1.*.
On the machine with the modem connected i want to run diald, so that
everyone on the LAN could make a ppp connection to the internet. I also
run on this machine a samba server.
But if diald is running the directories from the samba server arent
accessable form the winnt clients.
Thanks in advance
George
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: 31 Mar 1999 01:25:05 -0500
"Alexander I. Butenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Also cna you say that Unix SAMBA works as good with Windows clients as teh
>Native NT Server?
>
No, it works better. Tests performed by Ziff-Davis' Smart Reseller magazine
demonstrated that a Linux box running Samba consistantly outperformed a native
NT box.
>How about Macintosh clients?
>
Does NT support AppleTalk out of the box?
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From: digger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: network is busying for what?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:36:11 -0500
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<dd>
<tt>I am using redhat5. 2 with a recompiled kernel 2.2.3. The window manager
is kde. when i observed the network traffic with ksniffer, i saw there
are incredible traffic with ARP. Here is a current snapshot
(only less one hour since i boot the machine.)</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>eth0
Packets
Bytes Activity</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>Total
23012
191867 2.52 kbytes/sec</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>IP:
3094
524582 37 pkts/sec</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>TCP:
222
95994</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>UDP:
2997
447374</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>ICMP:
4
352</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>OTHER-IP:
0
0</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt><font color="#FF0000">NON-IP
:
12170
937456</font></tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt><font
color="#FF0000">ARP:
14213
1075429939</font></tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>RARP:
0
0</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>IPX:
99
15205</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>well, the packets number for NON-IP and ARP are still changing quickly,
now they are 21715 and 23309, respectively. I'm wondering what's going
on here. I have already turn off named service. and no arpwatch running.</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>here is a output of the command 'top'.</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> PID USER PRI NI SIZE
RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 652 root 13 0 17464
17M 804 S 0 13.0 27.6
0:36 X</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 779 root 15 0
3996 3996 2768 R 0 11.6
6.3 0:21 ksniffer</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 780 digger 2 0
732 732 564 R 0
0.9 1.1 0:00 top</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 683 digger 0 0 2728
2728 1256 R 0 0.1
4.3 0:02 kvt</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 1 root 0
0 156 156 96 S
0 0.0 0.2 0:04 init</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 2 root 0
0 0 0
0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00
kflushd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 3 root 0
0 0 0
0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00
kpiod</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 4 root 0
0 0 0
0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00
kswapd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 107 root 0
0
84 84 32 S
0 0.0 0.1 0:00 kerneld</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 251 bin 0
0 76 76 0
S
0 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 271 root 0 0
220 220 136 S 0
0.0 0.3 0:00 syslogd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 282 root 0 0
484 484 112 S 0
0.0 0.7 0:00 klogd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 296 daemon 0 0
144 144 68 S
0 0.0 0.2 0:00 atd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 310 root 0 0
156 156 76 S
0 0.0 0.2 0:00 crond</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 324 root 0 0
192 192 124 S 0
0.0 0.3 0:00 inetd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 340 root 0 0
140 140 44 S
0 0.0 0.2 0:00 rpc.mountd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 351 root 0 0
144 144 44 S
0 0.0 0.2 0:00 rpc.nfsd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 368 root 0 0
268 268 112 S 0
0.0 0.4 0:00 amd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 370 root 0
0
0 0 0 SW
0 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpciod</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 371 root 0
0
0 0 0 SW
0 0.0 0.0 0:00 lockd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 392 root 0 0
412 412 184 S 0
0.0 0.6 0:00 sendmail</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 407 root 0
0
84 84 36 S
0 0.0 0.1 0:00 gpm</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt> 421 root 0 0
380 380 300 S 0
0.0 0.6 0:00 httpd</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>................</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>any clues?</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>thank you for your advice in advance.</tt></dd>
<dd>
<tt>digger</tt></dd>
<br> </html>
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From: Carles Arjona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 509 won't go (detailed!)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:28:08 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I recently bought two used 3Com 509s
> I put the card in an open ISA slot and I recompiled the 2.2.1 kernel
^^^^^
> alderamin:/lib/modules/2.0.36/net# modprobe 3c509.o
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/3c509.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
^^^^^^
Will 2.0.36 modules work on a 2.2.1 kernel? You might try booting with
the pre-compiled kernel of your Linux distribution, and using its
modules.
> I look at /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, and I see that IRQ 5 is already
> taken by the sound card, and the IO appears to conflict with the floppy drive,
> oddly enough. From /proc/ioports: 03f0-03f5 : floppy
You can change with the MS-DOS setup program the IRQ and I/O port
settings of your NIC (and keep off the PnP stuff). You must choose IRQ
and I/O ports not taken by other devices.
> ps A plague upon the house of 3Com for making cards that aren't configurable
> any way except via software, which helps you not at all if the configuration
> is already too screwed up for the machine to recognize the card...
Configuration changes made with the MS-DOS program are still active when
you boot on Linux.
Regards.
-
Carles Arjona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
Please, just remove the second NOSPAM for replies from newsgroups.
(Yes, NOSPAM is my real username)
[Don't send me e-mail copies of usenet postings, please]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: more than one modem in a machine
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Mar 1999 22:51:18 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know it is easy to setup two modems in a PC, but how about 3 or 4?
> I would like to setup Linux as a communications server, where it can
> serve as a modem pool similar to the SAPS systems for Windows. Also,
> what is a good start as for as reading up on setting up a modem pool
> under Linux? The system would have to allow for any user to
> automatically be able to use any free modem in the system.
get a multi-serial port card which can share multiple ports on one
irq. i think i recal 4-way and 8-way serial cards in the kernel
configuration.
using internal modems or standard serial port uarts will run you out
of irqs and slots fast.
> If there isn't GPL'd software for this, is there a commecial
> package? It would need to work with Windows machines.
> Along these lines, anyone have any experience with multimodem cards?
> It might be easier to setup a server with 4-8 modems for this if I
> can get a decently priced card.
a bank of external modems connected to the afforementioned multi-port
serial card would be the way to go. you can even get a rack of modems
in one unit. check out multitech for examples.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Zlatko Baumberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: IBM EtherJet 10/100 is not running !!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:07:40 +0200
David Hinds wrote:
>
> Zlatko Baumberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> :
> : I have an IBM Thinkpad 770X running SuSE Linux 6.0 everything works
> : only the Ethernet-Card is not working.
> :
> : It is an IBM EtherJet 10/100 CardBus.
>
> It isn't a supported card, so you should have no reason to expect it
> to work.
>
> -- Dave Hinds
There exists a driver for it if you look at the end of
the file 'SUPPORTED.CARDS':
[cs89x0_cs driver]
IBM EtherJet
(Danilo Beuche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
but i think the problem is in the cardbus support
Can anyone help
Thanks
zlatko
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From: "Jim Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finding a process on a port
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 03:09:44 GMT
>[Snip!]
>
>Maybe I'm displaying my ignorance, but isn't this essentially what
>the ident daemon does? It listens to port 113 and responds to queries
>about the UID owning a given port.
As far as I know, identd sits on a port and will give out the name of the
user (i.e. the UID) of the port. This is useful for a very weak form of
authentication, or rather a weak form of idendentification. It is actually
closer to identification. What I was looking for is the name of the process
on the port, not the owner. The UID is actually fairly useless when you are
looking at reserved ports because most are started by root. What you
actually need is the process ID, not the UID. Thus, knowing that root owns
the program on port 635 doesn't help me because 95% of the programs between
port 1-1024 are owned by root and this doesn't help me narrow down which
particular one is on port 635.
Sometimes I miss my old C64.
Jim
>--
>D. C. Sessions
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jack Beatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP! Newbie to networking...
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:13:08 -0500
Windows98NOT! wrote:
> I have just completed my dedicated Red Hat 5.2 machine and I honestly
> have no idea how to set up a server. I want to network two machines
> together. A dual boot Red Hat/Windoze machine and a dedicated Red Hat
> 5.2 machine. I installed Red Hat using the server class install but have
> not done anything since that (other than setting up user accounts.) I am
> looking for ideas on how to handle IP. My ISP only offers dynamic IP and
> I want to forward IP from the server to my Windoze workstation. I also
> want to be able to dial out on command from the Windoze or Linux
> partitions.
> WHERE DO I START????
> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
IMHO, the best place is to start looking at to HOWTO docs: NET-3-HOWTO and
PPP-HOWTO.
But first make sure that your network at home is talking before setting up
PPP. User
the Redhat netcfg command to set it up. On the name tab enter the
appropriate host and
domain for you home network: linux.home.com , home.com. In the search in
additional
domains enter your ISP domain: isp.com. Then enter the IP addresses for
there DNS
servers. You should be able to get this from them or if you have a windows
machine already
talking, use winipcfg.exe to find out.
On the hosts tab, list all of your local home machines.
On the interfaces tab, add the ethernet interface and make sure that its
active at boot.
Leave the routing tab blank and DON'T put a default gateway as this can
mess up PPP which will
create the default route.
Since tcp wrappers is installed by default with 5.2, check out the man
pages on hosts.deny and hosts.allow. Make
sure that you understand how to configure these before hooking your machine
up to the net. Also take a look at the
IP-Masquerade howto. You will need this if you want your linux box to act
as a pass thru for you Windoze box.
As far as dyanamic IP addresses this should be no problem. Just make sure
that you don't specify
any local or remote IP addresses in your PPP options file and make sure
that you let PPP create a default route.
This is covered in the PPP-HOWTO. You should be able to setup your PPP
interface using linuxconf. Under networking
select the ppp/slip/plip option.
Hope this gets you started. I've got to leave a little work for you! :-)
Good Luck.
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From: Ian Hogben <[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
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:09:24 +0000
We use computer names from Science Fiction shows. Thus we have ZEN,
ORAC, HAL, ZIGGY, and MARVIN (as in the paranoid android :).
We are running out of names, though. This is the fault of unimaginative
Star-Trek shows yelling out "computer" when speaking to their agent.
While I'm moaning, if anyone has any other good ideas of another name,
please drop me a line.
Goes to show; there's nothing that compares to the originals: Blake's 7,
HHGTG, 2001. :)
--
Ian Hogben
Computer User Consultant
Curtin University of Technology Kalgoorlie
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.kalg.curtin.edu.au/~HogbenI/buscard.html
+61 8 9088 6857
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"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong,
always make it look like the dog did it."
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From: "John Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS problem - Solaris client, RH 5.2 server
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:32:24 -0700
Hello All,
I have a RH 5.2 system that is exporting NFS filesystems to a Solaris 2.6
machines. When I mount the Linux-hosted filesystems on the Solaris box it
complains that there is no file-locking but it proceeds anyway.
Occasionally, expecially when FORTRAN prgrams are accessing data from these
linux-hosted NFS partitions, I get a "Stale NFS filehandle" error.
Can someone help me understand what the problem might be?
Thanks!
--john
--
John Cartwright
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can I test a blocked STP port?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:54:01 GMT
Hello Everybody
I'm a newby in Spanning Tree Protocol. I didn't understand if it's possible to
check/test a STP blocked port. I mean, can I send a proprietary test frame or
activate a standard SNMP test (loopback or continuity check) on a STP blocked
port?
Many Thanks
Please reply also directly to my address - I have some difficulties to read NG
Ciao
--
G.Paolo Vigone ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Italtel SpA
Italy
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From: dont spam me<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mrtg reports almost exact amount of incoming and outgoing bytes per
second on CMU-SNMP equipped linuxbox
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:09:48 GMT
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:20:30 +0100, "Walter Tak"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if you are looking at the total number of bytes transfered in a givin
time then yes, incomming should be almost 3 times that of outgoing.
if you are looking at the speed of transfer of given frames, they
should be almost identical.
tng
>Hi,
>
>I'm using MRTG on a Linux box to make a graph of my ISDN
>dialup link using CMU-SNMP which is running on the
>very same machine.
>
>The graphs shows the bytes/sec for the ISDN link.
>However the outgoing bytes/sec is way too high,
>it's most of the times 90% of the incoming bytes/sec.
>
>Since I'm just browsing or downloading and not
>uploading to the net the outgoing cps should be low,
>almost near 0 cps.
>
>Anyone ?
>
>--
>
>Regards,
>Walter Tak
>==========
>Tentacle Interactive
>Internet-based IT solutions
>http://www.tentacle.nl
>
>
>
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