Linux-Networking Digest #717, Volume #10 Fri, 2 Apr 99 13:13:33 EST
Contents:
tiny driver patch (Re: 3c509B + 2.0.36 + 486/66 = badness) (Anthony Shipman)
linux pptp client (hankster)
Re: DNS and DHCP working in harmony? (Stephen Carville)
ppp monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Samba Help Needed ("Traveler Hauptman")
Re: DNS and DHCP working in harmony? ("Thomas Horan")
Re: MS-LINUX ("Nickolas S. Pattakos")
Re: diald and DNS queries (Frank Hahn)
Re: MS-LINUX (Andrew Williams)
IPX/SPX Routing ("Thomas Plant")
Re: Help Please: Linux 2.2.5 and BT Speedway ISDN (honestly new question) ("Seyed
Razavi")
Re: Found solutions for RTL8139-chip NIC ("pg")
Re: smbmount used to work ("Terry East")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Shipman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: tiny driver patch (Re: 3c509B + 2.0.36 + 486/66 = badness)
Date: 2 Apr 1999 16:20:40 GMT
I solved my problem. It's a bit too embarassing to go into
details :-(.
Anyway here is a tiny patch to the 3c509.c driver that I found useful
while debugging.
*** 3c509.c-orig Mon Mar 15 00:46:51 1999
--- 3c509.c Wed Mar 17 03:47:57 1999
***************
*** 675,680 ****
--- 675,684 ----
if (rx_status & 0x4000) { /* Error, update stats. */
short error = rx_status & 0x3800;
+ if (el3_debug > 5)
+ printk(" Error: rx_packet(), rx_status %4.4x.\n",
+ rx_status);
+
outw(RxDiscard, ioaddr + EL3_CMD);
lp->stats.rx_errors++;
switch (error) {
--
Anthony Shipman, "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
AAII, Melbourne, Australia Before you are six or seven or eight,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To hate all the people your relatives hate,
+61 3 92477679 You've got to be carefully taught." R&H
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From: hankster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux pptp client
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:37:50 -0600
hello all, this is what i am trying to do:
i have redhat linux (5.2) with 2.2.3 kernel compiled with GRE
i have scott cananians pptp client (latest ver i believe is 1.0.2)
i can connect to my isp with no prob. (this machine also boots nt, and
with
same isp i can connect to my place of employs vpn) want to use linux
though.
i have gotten to the point where i run scotts pptp and log messages say
i am CHAP verified, i then try to add the routing info which never seems
to work, i then timeout with errors about sending config requests.
i am not really knowledgeable in networking, my workplace vpn ip address
seems to be dynamic, so i am using the dn. I also think i should be
adding
the routing info to the ppp1 device and not the ppp0 which my isp
connection is using. As near as i can tell I dont need anything else in
the
kernel (masquerading ?)
Any Help appreciated, thanks, Hank
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS and DHCP working in harmony?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 08:24:01 -0800
Steve Emmett wrote:
>
> The background
>
> I have a home network that includes 1 printer, 3 NT boxes and 3-5 Linux
> boxes. Currently, all hosts have /etc/hosts (or their NT equivalent).
> Everybody talks to everybody with no problems - the system works as I
> would like it to work.
>
> I just recently setup dhcpd on one of the linux boxes and have set the
> rest of the boxes as dhcp clients. leasing of IP addresses works fine.
>
> What I'd like to do
>
> With dhcp, /etc/hosts become irrelevant because they contain hardcoded
> IP addresses. What I would like to do is set up a DNS (named) on one of
> the linux boxes. I know, this is not a network that needs a DNS - I
> just want to do this to learn. Anyway, my understanding of the database
> needed for DNS indicates that I need explicit IP addresses to enter into
> the database.
> Questions
>
> Since I am using dhcp to randomly and dynamically distribute IP
> addresses, it is possible to use DNS to do the name-IP address
> resolution?
Yes.
> If it is possible, what should I read, review to learn how do to this?
I have some perl scripts that do just this. Becasue they use the dynamic
update facility you will need to run named 8.1.2 or later. Check:
http://www.cpl.net/~carville/dhcp-dns.html
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================================
It's all right to have geniuses build systems for use by idiots, but
the path from laboratory to marketplace needs to go through the
proving ground of prudent engineering.
Peter Coffee
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:53:04 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp monitor
I am fairly new to using Linux. (but old to Unix). Is there a ppp
graphic X-monitor somewhere. I have seen it on some of the galleries,
but my searches are deadends!
thanks
Dennis Todd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Traveler Hauptman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba Help Needed
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:17:54 -0800
I am having trouble connecting to my linux box from a win98 machine. I've
gone through the "diagnosing samba" document and all the smbclient tests
work fine. However when I try to connect from my win98 machine I get a
dialog asking for the password for service \\mymachine\IPC$. Using Net view
\\caesar returns a bad password error. Any Ideas?
Also, where can I find the faq for this newsgroup?
Thanks,
Traveler Hauptman
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From: "Thomas Horan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS and DHCP working in harmony?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:56:03 +0100
You should have a look here:-
http://core.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/03/21/922025815.html
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From: "Nickolas S. Pattakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: MS-LINUX
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:00:20 +0300
For God's sake, Bill don't destroy linux. Windows is more than enough. What
a horrifing announcement.
TURBO1010 wrote in message <7e1bgc$5hh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Microsoft Announces MS-Linux
>REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced
>the forthcoming release of MS-Linux(R), a new version of the well-known
>Linux(R) operating system designed for the enterprise.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: diald and DNS queries
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:31:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 Apr 1999 10:42:31 GMT, Mike Jagdis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ronald Hovens wrote:
>>However, when I use diald 0.16 for
>>a virtual permanent connection, the linux box starts dialing my ISP on
>>very strange moments:
>>
>>sit. 1 after starting my laptop, that connects to my ethernet
>>sit. 2. when I look at network neighbourhood and click on the linuxbox
>>icon on my laptop
>>sit. 3 when I take a look at the printer queue of the printer that is
>>connected to the Linux box and is usable from the Win98 laptop thru
>>samba.
>>
>>According to the systemlog, the diald rule that brings up the connection
>>is a DNS packet rule (port 53). I can see that a DNS query is done to my
>>ISP's DNS servers, (the ones that are stored within the win98 DNS
>>settings an in /etc/resolv.conf). I'ts ok that diald brings up the
>>connection for a DNS query, since the ISP's DNS servers are outside my
>>ethernet, BUT WHY IS THE DNS LOOKUP PERFORMED, EVEN WHEN I LOOK AROUND
>>WITHIN MY ETHERNET (sit 1...3)?
>
>All together now... "BECAUSE ITS WINDOWS!"
>
>Windows does all kinds of weird and wonderful look ups. If it is
>configured to use WINS samba may be relaying requests through DNS.
>If Windows is set up to use DNS it generates requests itself.
>
>>Does running a DNS server on my own
>>linux box resolve this problem?
>
>No, but if you point Windows at that instead of your ISP and have
>your local server forward requests externally it gives you a useful
>point to trace DNS queries. Once you know what bogus queries are
>going on you can trap them either with hosts files or by setting
>up dummy zones on your local server.
>
At home, I have a three computer network. One is a Linux machine,
one is a Sun Sparc, and one is a Windows 95 machine. The Sun and
the Linux machine have Samba running on them. The Linux machine
has diald running on it.
I have seen others mention that diald starts up when Windows does
some sort of DNS lookup. For some reason, I have never seemed to
have this problem. I also use my ISP's DNS servers for all machines.
I bet if you search http://www.dejanews.com, especially the Linux
newsgroups, you can find rules to add to diald so that it will
ignore these requests. I have seen the posted frequently.
A couple of things to look at if you haven't already, is to have
the names and IP numbers for all of your machines setup in your
hosts files. I have setup a hosts file in Windows in the
c:\windows\ directory.
These files are of the following format:
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX machinename.somedomain.com machinename
I use my ISPs domain name.
Something else to look at is to see what other networking protocols
Windows is using. I only use TCP/IP. All others were removed.
Hope this makes some sense.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: MS-LINUX
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:53:01 +0200
what could the date possibly be?
TURBO1010 wrote:
> hought you might like an early peek at this. It'll be going out over
> the wire shortly.
>
> Microsoft Announces MS-Linux
>
> The flexible "grassroots" operating system, now with the quality and
> enterprise-level service and support customers expect from Microsoft
>
> REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced
> the forthcoming release of MS-Linux(R), a new version of the well-known
> Linux(R) operating system designed for the enterprise.
>
> "Prior to the development of MS-Linux, enterprise customers wouldn't
> dream of deploying mission-critical applications on an unsupported
> operating
> system," said Jim Allchin, senior vice president of Microsoft's personal
> and
> business systems group. "All that has now changed."
>
> Maximum compatibility and performance
>
> While other versions of Linux offer a variety of immature and largely
> incompatible windowing environments, MS-Linux includes an implementation
> of
> the familiar Microsoft(R) Windows(R) desktop, minimizing corporate
> training
> costs and allowing the hundreds of millions of Windows users worldwide
> to be
> productive right away.
>
> MS-Linux provides a complete implementation of the Win32(R) API,
> enabling many of the thousands of applications written for the Microsoft
> Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT(R), and Windows 2000 operating
> systems to
> run unchanged on MS-Linux. Microsoft will offer support for future
> releases
> of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications and the
> BackOffice family of server products running on MS-Linux. In addition,
> many
> existing MS-DOS(R) and SCO Unix programs will run on MS-Linux without
> modification. Benchmark tests performed by independent laboratories have
> shown that MS-Linux is the world's fastest Windows file server.
>
> A groundswell of support from industry
>
> A number of leading development tool vendors will announce support for
> MS-Linux, including Bristol Technology Inc., Compuware Corp., Cygnus
> Solutions, Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc., Intel Corp., Metrowerks Inc.,
> Rational Software Corp., Sybase Inc., and Tower Technology.
>
> "The new Linux distribution from Microsoft gives the operating system
> the credibility it needs to gain a foothold in organizations where it
> has
> never gone before," said Jon Hall, Executive Director of Linux
> International, a non-profit Linux advocacy organization. Microsoft will
> become a corporate member of Linux International, and will make a
> substantial donation of funds and equipment to the organization. "Linux
> International looks forward to working with Microsoft for the benefit of
> current and future Linux users," added Hall.
>
> According to VA Research President and CEO Larry Augustin, "VA Research
> is delighted that Microsoft is entering the fast-growing market for
> computers powered by Linux." VA Research has announced plans to bundle
> MS-Linux and selected Microsoft Office and BackOffice products with its
> powerful server, workstation, and laptop computers. VA Research has also
> agreed to make Microsoft its exclusive supplier of Linux-based operating
> systems going forward. "Having the Office and BackOffice suites running
> on
> computers from VA Research will give us a huge advantage in the
> marketplace," said Augustin.
>
> Microsoft has engaged well-known author and programmer Eric S. Raymond
> to advise the company on certain intellectual property issues related to
> Linux. Raymond's paper "The Cathedral of the Bizarre" was a key factor
> in
> Microsoft's decision to develop a Linux product. "While Microsoft will
> not
> immediately release the source code for its version of Linux, the
> company
> has promised to do so eventually," said Raymond. "That's good enough for
> me."
>
> "The Linux community and Microsoft are a great fit," says Linus
> Torvalds, creator of Linux. "After all, we both have the same goal,
> which is
> total world domination."
>
> Separately, Microsoft has announced the opening of a new recruiting
> center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. "Microsoft is always
> looking for talented individuals to join our team," said Mike Murray,
> Microsoft's vice president of human resources and administration. "We
> often
> recruit in communities that are expected to have significant numbers of
> folks looking for work in the near future."
>
> Pricing and availability
>
> Microsoft expects to release English and international versions of
> MS-Linux Version 3.1 for Intel- and RISC-based computers on or before
> April
> 1, 2000. Pricing has not been announced.
>
> About Microsoft
> Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
> software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of
> products
> and services, each designed with the mission of making it easier and
> more
> enjoyable to take advantage of people using personal computers every
> day.
>
> Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Win32, BackOffice, MS-Linux, and Linux
> are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the
> United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names
> herein
> may be trademarks of their respective owners.
> Happy Surfing,
--
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect, especially on my
http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/101,69082/samba.html
Simple Samba Solutions web page
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From: "Thomas Plant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPX/SPX Routing
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:32:46 +0200
Hi,
I need to route IPX/SPX packets through my Linux-box which acts
as a Firewall/Router for our Network.
The Problem is that our external offices are interconnected to our office
with the IPX/SPX protocol, which runs on the same wires as the TCP/IP
protocol from our provider (de facto he provides us the interconnection
between our offices).
Now, the problem is: i managed to route the IPX traffic because I can use
the applications which use IPX with no problem, but when I try to use SPX I
can't get through the Linux-Box (e.g. when I try to use RCONSOLE to access
our Netware Servers).
My IPX routing is done with MARS_NWE.
Thanks for help,
Thomas
P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.
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From: "Seyed Razavi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help Please: Linux 2.2.5 and BT Speedway ISDN (honestly new question)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:40:03 +0100
Hi,
> Symptoms?
>
When I do "make" it chunders on for a little bit and the gives to errors
(possible not the only ones):
avmcapictrl.c: In function 'main'
avmcapictrl.c: stucture has no member named 'cardnr'
avmcapictrl.c: 'AVMB1_REMOVECARD' undeclared
--
Cheers,
Seyed P. Razavi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "pg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "pg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Found solutions for RTL8139-chip NIC
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:53:46 GMT
FYI
The SMC EZCard fast ethernet card 10/100 PCI also uses the rtl8139 driver.
Thanks for the detailed "howto"
pg
Wouter Boussemaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I followed this procedure and succeeded in getting my NICs (WISECOM
> 10/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet PCI Card - Chip: RTL8139A - 89269T1) to life
> on RH5.2
>
> * Download the driver from NASA
(http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html)
>
> * Compile this driver with following command [!!! should be one long
> line !!!]
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c `[
> -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`
>
> * Move the module to the /lib/modules/preferred/net/ - directory
> It will overwrite the old module (with by the way didn't work for me).
>
> * Issue following commands, replacing the x's and y's with the
> appropriate numbers :
>
> modprobe rtl8139 # don't use depmod-command
>
> ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.x broadcast
xxx.xxx.xxx.255
> route add -net xxx.xxx.xxx.0 netmask 255.255.255.x # very important
> to issue this command otherwise you'll get the error saying:
> # network unreachable...
> route add default gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> * Now you should be able to use the card for what it is meant... :)
>
> If you want that these commands are executed at boot-time just add them
> to /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
>
> This is one of my /etc/rc.d/init.d/network-files:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # network Bring up/down networking
> #
> # chkconfig: 2345 10 90
> # description: Activates/Deactivates all network interfaces configured
> to \
> # start at boot time.
> # probe: true
>
> # Source function library.
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> insmod rtl8139
> modprobe rtl8139
> ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.98 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
xxx.xxx.xxx.255
> route add -net xxx.xxx.xxx.0 netmaks 255.255.255.0
> route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.1
>
> if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
> exit 0
> fi
>
> . /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ]; then
> . /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
>
> [ snip ]
> etc.....
>
>
> Hope this helps you and good luck,
> Wouter
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From: "Terry East" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount used to work
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:01:27 +0200
The parameters to smbmount have changed
Try Darkstar:~ # smbmount //stargate/mhering$ password -I 192.168.1.2 -U
mhering -c 'mount /mnt/win'
Note: the -c is the command passed on to the new smbmnt command.
Terry East
Marc Hering wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> ok, here is one that is quite annoying ;)
>
>I am running SuSE 6.0 and was successfully mounting my shared dir's off
>my NT server using smbmount no prob. the other day I upgraded from
>2.0.36 kernel to 2.2.3 kernel and now I cannot mount my shares anymore.
>When building the new kernel I make sure to include support for
>smbfilesystem and I can ping the server no problem
>this is the output I get when trying
>
>Darkstar:~ # smbmount //stargate/mhering$ /mnt/win -I 192.168.1.2 -U
>mhering
>Password:
>mount error: Invalid argument
>Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
>Darkstar:~ #
>
>
>I have reread the man page and this is what is says should work
>this is the same command that always worked before,,,I went to suse
>website and DL and installed the new samba they have out there no
>dice,,,winblows sees the shares no prob ;(
>
>Any help is appreciated
>
>please reply to email as well as Newsgroup ;)
>
>thanks in advance
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