Linux-Networking Digest #702, Volume #10 Thu, 1 Apr 99 11:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: RedHat Lousy Support (Donald Wilson)
Re: tin does not get any data (Wilhelm Wienemann)
Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!! ("Stavros C. Kassinos")
Re: IPSEC with kernel 2.2.x??? (David Nedrow)
Setting up *non-default* routes through ppp0 (Walter Hunt)
/proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-* (Ricardo Malta Cenit AG)
Re: PPP !! ERROR (Clifford Kite)
PPP Auto-Dialer (Stephane POMATTO)
Sendmail with dbm on RH 5.1 (David Ison)
Re: RedHat Lousy Support ("Mark F. Burgo ( Systems Administrator )")
linux networking with a proxy (Wingate / NT) ("Aur�lien DELEUSIERE")
site for newbies ("Curt")
Re: urgent help! upgrade kernel (Ricardo Malta Cenit AG)
Re: RedHat Lousy Support (Richard Steiner)
Re: Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x (Ricardo Malta Cenit AG)
Re: linux networking with a proxy (Wingate / NT) (John McKee)
Re: assigning IP address to jetdirect EX card? (root)
Re: uugetty-probls... :( (Clifford Kite)
Re: 3c509B + 2.0.36 + 486/66 = badness (Geoff Allsup)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? ("Vincent S. Kluth")
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From: Donald Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat Lousy Support
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:00:40 -0500
Allen wrote:
> I just had my paid support treatment today after 36 hours waiting...
did you ever have to use microsoft support for items they said they don't
support?
twice i have questioned R^ about items NOT covered by support and at the same
time emailed the manufacturers of the offending products(one was HP). So far red
hat was the only help. Are you comparing them to ms support?
win95 osr2 A product created by ms.
install it on any machine. is it supported?
no.
why not?
because we want u to buy win 98 for fat32.
really.
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From: Wilhelm Wienemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tin does not get any data
Date: 31 Mar 1999 21:35:34 +0200
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:06:12 GMT Michiel Perdeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The newsreader tin does not get any data from the ISP. It shows about 4
> groups, each of which is empty. Whatever I do, tin does not try to get
> data from the ISP, no new groups and no messages.
> What can this be?
> I am on-line when I try this.
Check your $HOME/.newsrc file. How many entries are there?
Did you use 'tin -r'?
bye - Wilhelm
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From: "Stavros C. Kassinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!!
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:33:11 -0800
Hi thank you for your response Bob.
This is a new setup that never worked at the correct speed.
In the meantime I have done some additional testing and here are some
new facts:
When I ftp from client to server I get 5kb/sec. When I ftp from server
to client I get .7Mb/sec. An assymetric problem as you describe.
I run ping "ping -f -s 100", "ping -f -s 200" etc. between the two
machines and I get inceasing packet loss with increasing packet size.
Loss gets upto 35% -- too high. I also get duplicates.
On the client box, Ifconfig gives some frame errors:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:27:4D:36
inet addr:192.168.0.27 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2705 errors:179 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:179
The cards on the two machines
Server: eth0 to ISP Kingston 110TX using tulip driver
eth1 to LAN 3com 3c905
Client: eth0 to LAN LinkSys EtherFast 110TX (LNE 100) using Tulip
driver.
Thank you for you help and any new ideas :)
Bob Hauck wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Stavros C. Kassinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > PROBLEM: The connection, even the local one just between Box-1 and
> > Box-2, is slow. FTP transfer rates are only 1-5Kb/sec!!
>
> Did it ever work, or is this a new problem? If it never worked
> I would look first at configuration...is routing correct, are you
> seeing errors in /var/log/messages, does ifconfig show the
> correct setup for the card, etc.
>
> If it used to work and just quit, it's probably hardware. I had
> something like it happen when one of my ethernet cards decided it
> didn't need to generate interrupts. The weird thing was that the
> slowness was not symmetric. 1->2 was faster than 2->1.
>
> It could also be a bad cable, bad hub, or gremlins.
>
> --
> 15:15:00 up 36 days, 5:38, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Nedrow)
Subject: Re: IPSEC with kernel 2.2.x???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:30:55 -0500
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:23:16 -0800, John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>FreeS/WAN is waiting for the 2.2.x series to stabilize a bit more before
>beginning the porting process.
Hmmm, I'm not sure why they would wait much longer. We're already at 2.2.5. <G>
-David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Hunt)
Subject: Setting up *non-default* routes through ppp0
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:09:45 GMT
I recently set up my machine with a new cable-access modem for getting
to the Internet. This works great.
However, I still need to (for a while at least) connect to my old ISP
(netcom) in order to get mail from my old account. (As far as I know, netcom
can't/won't set up forwarding for my mail.)
Because netcom is braindead, I cannot simply access the pop server over
the net. Oh, no. The connection never completes. Doing a traceroute to the
pop server shows an eventual "blagw.netcom.com !X" which, if I'm reading the
manual right, means that they don't allow access through that gateway.
So I need to dial-up through PPP. Fine, I've been doing that forever
anyway. I remove the "defaultroute" stuff from the ppp options (since I want
the default route to remain through the cable modem) and dial up. The
connection comes up fine, I get an IP address for me and for the machine on the
other side of the link.
Now I'm stuck. I know I need to set up *some* kind of routing to allow me
to access hosts through ppp0, but not exactly what. For my purposes, I'd be
happy just to be able to route anything to 199.182.120.255 through ppp0.
So, I get my local address and the gateway machine, and try the following:
route add -host <pop-host> gw <gw-machine> dev ppp0
route doesn't complain, so it looks like it works.
However, doing a ping/traceroute/anything on the address of the pop machine
returns:
[root@fungus downloads]# ping 199.182.120.3
PING 199.182.120.3 (199.182.120.3): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 199.182.120.3 64 chars, ret=-1
Eh? I've never seen this message before. WTF does this mean? (BTW, I've
been upgrading things like the kernel lately (2.2.5-ac1), so feel free to
mention any version problems that might exist. pppd is 2.3.5-4.)
So far, I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem or setup problem with the
modem, since it dials, negotiates, logs in, and recieves the IP info fine.
It shouldn't be a general network problem, since the cable-modem access
stuff works great, and I have no problem getting anywhere from there.
I'm leaning towards a routing problem, but the "sendto" error is strange.
That sounds more like a ppp problem or something. I've tried several variations
on the above route command, with no useful results from anything.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks
--
Walter Hunt
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From: Ricardo Malta Cenit AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-*
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:02:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does somebody know where these files are under the kernel 2.2.5 ???
Till 2.0.36 these files where there. I use it to mount an NFS-Ready-Only
ROOT-Filesystem and have although write permissions to some files like
/etc/mtab, /var/log, etc ...
But now ... :-((
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP !! ERROR
Date: 1 Apr 1999 07:03:41 -0600
You might check your scripts. I know of one case in which pppd was
launched twice by the startup scripts.
andylow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I had checked the interrupts but there is no proccess using my modem's IRQ.
: Andy
: andylow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: : I'm facing this ppp problem, my dial up is working fine last time
: until
: : last night when I try connect to the net, I was put off by this error.
: : Apr 1 10:58:22 spider kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
: : Apr 1 10:58:22 spider kernel: registered device ppp0
: : Apr 1 10:58:22 spider pppd[1118]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
: : Apr 1 10:58:22 spider pppd[1118]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
: : Apr 1 10:58:23 spider pppd[1118]: Exit.
: It means that some other process is using the modem's IRQ and preventing
: pppd from getting the modem device file's ( /dev/ttySx, x = whatever )
: attributes. "cat /proc/interrupts" to find out what IRQs your devices
: use.
: --
: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
: /* Editing with vi is a lot better than using a huge swiss army knife. */
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword. */
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From: Stephane POMATTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP Auto-Dialer
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:35:12 +0200
Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie in Linux (Only a week) and I'm using RH 5.2 I found it very
convenient and quite easy to configure and use it.
Here is my problem :
I've got a local network with Win98 clients. I'm using RH 5. 2 to add a
gateway between my modem and my local network. I managed to configure
this succesfully. My PPP connection works perfectly, and fter
reconfiguring IP settings on clients, I was able to surf on win98
through RH 5.2 as firewall.
But for the moment, I need to initiate my PPP connection manually on RH.
The fact is I would like RH to dial automatically PPP when I open
Netscape on Win98. I've heard about Dialp but it seems it only
disconnect after a programmed timeout. What I need is a deamon able to
connect and discoonect on the demand when I open and close Netscape on
Win98 clients.
Is DIP able to do this, or do I need to install Dialp ? Is there another
deamon able to do this ?
Thanks by advance for any answers !
Steph.
PS : Oh, something else... Is there any way to mount a SMB volume
instead of using smbclient command ?
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:56:38 -0500
From: David Ison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sendmail with dbm on RH 5.1
We are running an email server on RH 5.1. We needed to add user
aliasing and virtusertable to sendmail.cf, but doing so (using
sendmail-cf btw) gave us this error:
Starting sendmail: sendmail 554 /etc/sendmail.cf:
line 145: readcf: map virtuser: class dbm not available
We have gdbm 1.7.3 installed.. Anyone know what is going on here?
--
David Ison
Sysadmin, PCCI
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From: "Mark F. Burgo ( Systems Administrator )" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RedHat Lousy Support
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:31:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not to be a prick but it is easy to tell someone how to start a system
in single user mode. It is easy to explain that they have an IO ot IRQ
issue. It dosen't take a brain surgen to explain these issues and it
should not cost any addition money as these are installation questions.
He Installed to a multi-homed system and it just didn't work. I have
over 15 years experience in the computer industry and if you want to
continue to have customers you don't answer they way they did.
I run RedHat installations and maintain RedHat, SUSE, Slackware, and
home grown installations for some 350 clients. If one called me and I
said that that was not covered do think that they would continue to
support me, NO! So enough with the spend more money, I will charge
people if they want to pay but for a simple multi-homed network
configuration question it takes less time to answer the question then to
write the bill. We can't all be money grubbing little people we are in
a community that has helped each other out for over 5 years without
charge and should be able to assist withjust the graditude that we
helped someone with a problem that they have....
Mark
Richard Steiner wrote:
>
> Here in comp.os.linux.networking, "Allen" spake unto us, saying:
>
> >I have business to run. I don't care how much I have to pay to get the
> >service. I am not a geek like you having fun wasting time trying to solve a
> >problem that does not make any business sense. Problem like system hanging
> >could have been pointed out (like Mark Burgo has) by Lilo: linux single.
> >I can't believe RedHat support cannot even make this simple reply!
>
> If support is very important, I'd suggest purchasing a support contract
> to provide the level you need.
>
> As far as I know, Red Hat only provides INSTALLATION support for their
> products for free. Once the OS is installed, additional configuration
> changes are your problem.
>
> --
> -Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
> WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
> But soft, what light through yonder tagline breaks?
--
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.surfshop.net/~mfburgo
On RedHat Linux 5.2
Burgo Systems / Consulting is happy to preload Linux on your new
BS/C System, Factory Direct
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From: "Aur�lien DELEUSIERE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux networking with a proxy (Wingate / NT)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:32:24 +0200
Hello,
I have a linux in a Micro$oft network...
I have configured the network and with netscape I can use the proxy to
go on the Internet.
But I want to use the proxy server to go on the Internet from anywhere
(shell for exemple) on my linux.
How can I do that ?
Thanks.
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From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: site for newbies
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 04:44:41 -0500
http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelburns/
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From: Ricardo Malta Cenit AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: urgent help! upgrade kernel
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:21:50 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The difference is hard in the kernel[y] or as a loadable module[m] !!
As a module you will have a smaller kernel, and you can put or remove
these
services while the system is running.
If you choose modules you must compile them ;-))
just do following:
make xconfig (or make menuconfig without X11)
select the modules or hard in kernel things
after that:
make dep && make clean
Now you are ready for go ;-))
make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
If everything is OK -> make install
Remember to call "lilo" to install your new kernel in the
BOOT-Record.
Now it should be OK :-)
BTW: You should choose to "Enable loadable module support" and "Kernel
module loader"
so the kernel can load the modules automagicaly as needed ;-))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RedHat Lousy Support
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 03:33:48 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.networking, "Allen" spake unto us, saying:
>I have business to run. I don't care how much I have to pay to get the
>service. I am not a geek like you having fun wasting time trying to solve a
>problem that does not make any business sense. Problem like system hanging
>could have been pointed out (like Mark Burgo has) by Lilo: linux single.
>I can't believe RedHat support cannot even make this simple reply!
If support is very important, I'd suggest purchasing a support contract
to provide the level you need.
As far as I know, Red Hat only provides INSTALLATION support for their
products for free. Once the OS is installed, additional configuration
changes are your problem.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
But soft, what light through yonder tagline breaks?
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From: Ricardo Malta Cenit AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:08:20 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Maechtel wrote:
>
> whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot
> everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs.
>
> At this point I get on my client:
>
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.1
> portmap: server 192.168.1.1 not responding timed out
> Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
Hi Michael,
I'm having exactly the same problem :-((
I've also verified that the files /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-{name,addrs}
aren't there anymore !!!
Probably something changed with the interfaces to NFS, but I don't know
what :-((
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKee)
Subject: Re: linux networking with a proxy (Wingate / NT)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:38:47 GMT
I would suggest replacing Wingate with Sygate (www.sygate.com). Wingate requires
reconfiguring
applications to work through proxy servers, but, with Sygate, you just specify the
gateway to be the
machine running Sygate, and you will have easy access to the internet.
HTH,
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:32:24 +0200, "Aur�lien DELEUSIERE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a linux in a Micro$oft network...
>I have configured the network and with netscape I can use the proxy to
>go on the Internet.
>
>But I want to use the proxy server to go on the Internet from anywhere
>(shell for exemple) on my linux.
>How can I do that ?
>
>Thanks.
John McKee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Re: assigning IP address to jetdirect EX card?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:48:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello charlie!
x wrote:
> box running samba. I've got it all working fine -- the only thing that
> remains is the incorporation of the office printer which runs off of a
> JetDirect EX (external) J2382B. From what I've read, it should only
> take
> an assigning of an IP address to that JetDirect card, but I cannot find
> the utility with which to do this.
as far as i know it should be ok to just handle the jetdirect as remote
printer. in case you are using bsd-lp as printing device you have to
give the ip adress of the jetdirect as ip of an remote printer. (i think
there is a passage on howto/printing on remote printing).
sorry if i can not be of more help, but currently i am kind of just
"spiritually preparing" for what it might be like to have an jetdirect
to do some remote printing, since i have ordered the jetdirect, but it
has not arrived yet.
if i get hold of new information, i will let you know... of course!
regards, ingo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: uugetty-probls... :(
Date: 1 Apr 1999 09:45:00 -0600
Wouter Boussemaere ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have a terrible problem.
: I use uugetty to enable dialin on RH5.2-linuxbox.
: The modem answers fine, but it doesn't give me any login-prompt... and
: after a second or two it disconnects saying no carrier....
Have you configured /etc/gettydefs? That is where the login prompt is
defined. "man gettydefs", here is a gettydefs I once used:
#
# default/virtual console entry:
#
vc# B38400 SANE # B38400 SANE -ISTRIP CLOCAL #@S login: #vc
# Modem locked at 38400:
#
## 38400# B38400 CS8 CRTSCTS # B38400 SANE -ISTRIP CRTSCTS #@S login: #38400
# Modem that autobauds to different speeds, terminal locked at 9600, etc:
# - SANE includes CS8 ISTRIP HUPCL
# - DON'T USE SANE or ECHO for initial config!!!!!
#
9600# B9600 CS8 # B9600 SANE -ISTRIP #9600 login: #4800
4800# B4800 CS8 # B4800 SANE -ISTRIP #4800-login: #2400
2400# B2400 CS8 # B2400 SANE -ISTRIP #2400-login: #1200
1200# B1200 CS8 # B1200 SANE -ISTRIP #1200-login: #9600
: my uugetty.ttySx-file:
: # /etc/default/uugetty.ttyS0
: #
: # change for your system name
: SYSTEM=ackbar
: VERSION=/bin/uname -s -r
: LOGIN=/usr/bin/rlogin ackbar
I'm not sure this is the correct form for LOGIN. The way I read "man getty"
is that uugetty calls the program and supplies the name itself - presumably
obtained from it's own login prompt. At any rate I didn't define LOGIN
and had no login problem with the default /bin/login.
: ISSUE=/etc/issue
: # ALTLOCK=ttyS0
: # ALTLINE=ttyS0
: INITLINE=ttyS0
: # change to your modem port
: TIMEOUT=60
: # HANGUP=YES
: INIT="" AT\r OK\r\n ATH0\r OK\r\n AT\sZ\r OK\r\n
: # waitfor string... if this sequence of characters is received over the line,
: # a call is detected.
: WAITFOR=RING
: # WAITFOR=CONNECT
: # this line is the connect chat sequence. This chat sequence is performed
: # after the WAITFOR string is found. The \A character automatically sets
: # the baudrate to the characters that are found, so if you get the message
: # CONNECT 2400, the baud rate is set to 2400 baud.
: #
: # format: <expect> <send> ... (chat sequence)
: CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT\s
I used CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT\s\A\r\n but can't say whether the \A,
marking the position of the connect speed string for dip, is necessary.
: DELAY=1
: # uncomment this for debug output
: # DEBUG=777
: #
: # END /etc/default/uugetty.ttyS0
: my inittab-line:
: # Dial in getty
: S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/default/uugetty.ttyS0 ttyS0 F38400 VT100
The inittab I used was
d3:45:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/default/uugetty.ttyS2 ttyS2 9600 vt100 LDI
SC0
Note that the speed argument actually refers to the label of the initial
gettydefs line. The label for my initial gettydefs' entry was 9600,
for your inittab entry the label would be F38400.
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword. */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Allsup)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: 3c509B + 2.0.36 + 486/66 = badness
Date: 1 Apr 1999 14:48:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 Apr 1999 02:12:23 GMT, Anthony Shipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an old 486DX2/66 with ISA/VLB buses and a 3c509B network card.
>This all worked fine with RH 5.1, 2.0.35 kernel. I installed RH5.2
>from scratch, 2.0.36, and now the network card is misbehaving. The
>hardware was not touched in any way. There are no IRQ conflicts, PnP
>problems etc.
>
>This is not the usual suite of problems. The driver works, the card
>talks to other machines on the LAN, but when I try to transfer files I
>get a very large Rx error rate on the 3c509B. The source of the
>transfer is a P150 with a PCI card. Typically 1 out of 6 to 1 out of 10
>packets received from the P150 machine result in a frame or overrun
>error. The result is a net throughput of only a few KB/s.
>
>The driver in 2.0.36 is v1.16. I tried the previous version, v1.12,
>which is what was used in 2.0.35 and the problem was the same. I have
>tried the v1.16 driver with max_interrupt_work increased to 20 but this
>doesn't change anything.
>
>My next step will be to compile a 2.0.35 kernel for the machine and see
>if this helps.
>
I don't think this should be that hard - I've networked dozens of machines,
with all sorts of cards, in both 10BaseT and 10Base2, and the only
problems of this sort were always bad cards or bad wiring, I'd check or
swap wiring, put another card in the P150, or some such first. Also,
are you sure you don't have some sort of interrupt conflict (on the P150
perhaps?).
I DO really doubt that it's a software thing...
good luck,
geoff
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Geoff Allsup Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, USA
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From: "Vincent S. Kluth" <[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 13:06:15 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Hogben wrote:
>
> 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. :)
We use bird names. If you're clever, you can name your BEEFY systems
with names like "eagle" and "hawk", and your wimpy systems "dove", etc.
Annoying users get "dodo" and "loon".
I despise naming computers with numbered acronyms, eg.
unix1
unix2
unix3
etc.
This is a readily noticeable headache as soon as you start
troubleshooting the network using snoop -- you'll get a fast stream of
hostnames past your face, and the alternating blur of "unix1"/"unix2" is
unintelligible.
--
Vincent S. Kluth Marconi Integrated Systems (formerly GDE
Sys.)
Unix Engineering Specialist San Diego CA, USA (619) 592-5521
kluthATmarconi-isDOTcom http://www.marconi-is.com (619) 592-1019
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