Linux-Networking Digest #726, Volume #10 Sat, 3 Apr 99 01:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: ADSL ethernet with Dynamic IP (Luca Filipozzi)
Unix Printing (Anthony Gallagher)
Cable modem connection under linux ("Yves")
Redhat ipmasquerading timeout? (Gary Hodder)
Re: unable to ping localhost (svrk)
experiences with Linux and Cox@Home (Paul Eggert)
Re: Samba Help Needed (Dereks2nd)
Re: Don't wanna run 'diald', so what else??? (David M. Cook)
Re: SAMBA Can't Connect to NT Network Drive (John McKee)
Re: IBM_auto16/4 tokenring ("M. Brian Akins")
Redhat 5.2 on Compaq Proliant 2000 not recongize SCSI contoller ("Fox Mulder")
Problems with Redhat 5.2, Kernel 2.2.5, Aliased adapters (Peter Clark)
Re: Samba Help Needed (Reto Buetzberger)
Re: SLOW Telnet???? (mist)
problem with telnetd and utmp.... ("T")
PtP link problems ... full crazy today (.)
Re: Kernel Update (David Pace)
ifmon-1.0 - Interface Monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Subject: Re: ADSL ethernet with Dynamic IP
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:00:45 -0800
In article <recN2.5510$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7e3esd$5tn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Given the usage pattern for the average home user, dynamic allocation
> makes
> > > sense. If a machine is only on the net for a few hours each day it is a
> > > waste of an IP address to allocate it full time to any particular site.
> >
> > Nonsense -- dynamic allocation _never_ makes sense. If a machine is only
> on
> > the net a few hours a day, then chances are it doesn't *need* an
> > externally-routable address. The ISP would be *far* better off giving
> > everyone a _fixed_ 10.x.x.x address, and reserving the "real" IP addresses
> > for people that actually need it. This is easier to set up than DHCP,
> it's
> > better than DHCP, and it's the way IP allocation was *meant* to be done.
> > Dynamic allocation is a hack that never should have seen the light of day.
> >
> > I think this brings us up to $0.06 collectively. :)
> >
> Let's say all the ISP's in the world "see the light" and change over to the
> scheme you suggest. Then I guess you wouldn't mind handling all those
> support calls the ISP's are going to get when one of their users can't run
> the latest hot new online game because their is no protocol specific handler
> on the firewall. Maybe you're the incredibly fast programmer that's going to
> write those handlers in record time and get them to all the ISP's before
> anyone notices that their not actually on the Internet and can't run some
> protocols because they're behind a firewall. Personally, when I contract
> with an ISP I expect them to provide the access to the _Internet_ not some
> private network with a half-assed bottle-neck of a router.
>
> Maybe you should _think_ about the ramifications of what you suggest before
> you start calling other people idiots. DHCP has solved a major problem with
> the Internet. Before it was in widespread use there were predictions that we
> would run out of IP addresses before today. For the vast majority of users,
> DHCP is the simplest, most cost-effective, and robust way for them to gain
> an IP address. For other users (you seem to be one of them) DHCP is
> unnacceptable. Those users can find an ISP that will give them a fixed IP
> address. It's simply a matter of using the right tool for the job.
>
> To tell you the truth, I would rather have a static IP address for my ADSL
> connection, but my telco doesn't provide that option. I guess I could find
> an ISP that did, but I have found that with just a little extra effort, I
> can connect to my machine while I am away from home with no problem, and a
> simple script that posts an HTML page to my ISP's server is all I need to
> lead users to my website.
>
> It's silly and childish to berate others for percieved mistakes when you
> don't even understand the requirements they were trying to meet. DHCP is
> actually an elegant and robust solution to a complex problem. I'd like to
> see you do better.
>
> Donley
>
>
>
>
I agree completely, Donley.
Another example where DHCP is useful is inside organizations where the
goal is not to conserve IP addresses but to have a central location for
the configuration of default routes, WINS servers, etc, etc. This means
that when an admin needs to make a change, s/he can reduce the lease time
to one hour, wait till all the leases have renewed, make the change, wait
again, and change back to a long lease time. Now, all the clients have
the new parameters!! This is what we do at work. If we can't wait for the
leases to expire, we just send broadcast messages telling everyone to
renew their leases manually (if they are clue) or to reboot their
machines (for the non-clue).
As for DHCP between ISP's and their clients... I think that's just fine.
I want a real IP address and I don't care that it's dynamic. I upload the
new IP address to a dynamic DNS systems and everything works just fine. I
happen to do this through my work place, but there are free and for-fee
services out there that will help people with their dynamic ip issues.
Finally, let me just say that when I had @Home (cable), they filtered
137-139 in order to "protect" me. I find it annoying that ISP's would
presume that. Now that I have ADSL, I'm connected to the 'net unfiltered
and unhindered.... with a dynamic IP address.
Luca
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Anthony Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help
Subject: Unix Printing
Date: 2 Apr 1999 17:17:31 GMT
Hello,
After a week of getting nowhere, I found out that JDK1.2 has a bug in
the drawString() function, switched to JDK1.1.8 and all of a sudden, my
PrintTextArea class worked perfectly...under Windows.
In Unix (both Linux and Solaris,) the margins are messed up, specially
the upper margin is almost half the page!
Could somebody let me know how to fix this?
Thank you,
Anthony
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From: "Yves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cable modem connection under linux
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:30:11 GMT
Hii folks
I am running red hat 5.2 on a pentium 200 machine.
64 megs ram and also 10.2 gig hard drive . I am trying to figure out how to
setup my cable modem to work with red hat . I tried
a few things with tcp/ip with netconfig in xwindows but no luck.
can anybody help me out ???/
Bye :) YvesC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Hodder)
Subject: Redhat ipmasquerading timeout?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 02:41:57 GMT
Hello all,
I need to run a telnet session through a redhat router using
ipmasquerading. My problem is that after a short time of no activity
the telnet session times out. I have tried opening port 23 back to my
box with ipfwadm but still times out.
Does anyone know how this can be overcome without the need to buy
another live ip address?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Gary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: svrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: unable to ping localhost
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:24:22 GMT
Thanks much!!! I got it working.
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:19:15 GMT, svrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am unsuccessful in making a small Corba server and client talk to each
> >other.
> >I gave the following command to test whether the name localhost or IP
> >127.0.01 works.
> >$ping localhost
> >PING localhost(127.0.01) 56 data bytes
> >ping: sendto : Network is unreachable
> >ping : wrote localhost 64 chars ret = -1
> >
> >100% pcket loss.
> >same for ping 127.0.01
>
> If the above is a literal "cut-and-paste" from a commandline,
> then I'd check your /etc/hosts file.
>
> localhost should be assigned to IP 127.0.0.1 and not 127.0.01
> =========
>
> If the 127.0.01 was a typo in your post, then please check ifconfig
> It should report something like...
> linux:~# ifconfig
> 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:9722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:9722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
>
> If it doesn't, then check your startup scripts for the loopback ifconfig and
> route statements. They should look something like...
> /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
>
> In Slackware, these can be found in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
>
> If everything looks OK, then post...
> a) ifconfig listing
> b) route listing
> c) your ifconfig startup script
> d) /etc/hosts
> e) /etc/networks
> f) I don't know what else
> and we'll see if we can help you
>
> 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eggert)
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems.cable
Subject: experiences with Linux and Cox@Home
Date: 2 Apr 1999 17:45:42 -0800
Here's an interesting article one getting a Linux client to work with
@Home in southern California.
http://members.home.net/junkio/athome/1.html
Getting Linux to work with @Home has its own set of problems and solutions.
The article is not really a HowTo document, but it's a good starting
point for people who want to write their own pre- and post-installation
checklists.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dereks2nd)
Subject: Re: Samba Help Needed
Date: 3 Apr 1999 00:35:29 GMT
Hi Traveler,
I have little to add to Vasily & Reto, But I would recommend Reto's solution
( and turn off encripted passwords in smb.conf ) as I have had it working
brilliantly using this method. However, one import detail they both missed
out is to ensure you use Samba 2.0.3. I had no end of problems until I used
this version. I also had a few problems with speed of access until I
installed the DNS server especially with Telnet.
Derek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Don't wanna run 'diald', so what else???
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 04:48:58 GMT
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 09:28:39 -0700, Jon Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't like 'diald'. It works fine. But I want something a little
>more interactive.
Diald provides a way for anyone to interact with it via a named pipe. I
forget the name of pipe, something like /etc/daild/diald.something. You can
echo stuff to that file to control the connection (if you set permissions on
it correctly.)
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKee)
Subject: Re: SAMBA Can't Connect to NT Network Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 02:23:59 GMT
I have not used to -n switch with smbmount. What does it do?
What works for me is:
smbmount //Server/share /mnt/sharename -U username -P password -I 192.168.0.2
You may or may not have to use the -I parameter. I use it for completeness, and
because it connects
every time like this. It's totally unambiguous.
HTH,
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:31:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Flumere) wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>Well, here I am, playing with Red Hat...
>
>I'm attempting to mount a shared NTFS folder on a Linux Box:
>
>The NT Box with the share is named DEC2, (192.168.0.3) and is a
>member of the Workgroup "FOXCO"
>
>The NT Share, (visible on other NT boxes on the network), is named
>"Util" and has permissions granted to "Everyone"
>
>The Linux Box is named LINUX, (192.168.0.10)
>
>They can ping each other and HTTP from LINUX to DEC2 works, so we are
>clearly connected.
>
>I have created the destination directory of "/mnt/dec2_windows" on
>LINUX
>
>In /etc/smb.conf, I have set the Workgroup as FOXCO and un-commented
>the line.
>
>I type "smbmount //DEC2/Util /mnt/dec2_windows -n" (No quotes, of
>course!)
>
>Smbmount returns "mount error: Invalid Argument"
>
>I've typed it in all different cases. (for the last two hours <G>)
>
>The HOSTS file on LINUX:
>
>127.0.0.1 Localhost
>192.168.0.10 LINUX
>192.168.0.3 DEC2
>
>There is no Fully Qualified Domain name.. (is this my problem??)
>
>Thanks for any help/comments..
>
>Bob Flumere
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
John McKee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 19:25:13 -0500
From: "M. Brian Akins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM_auto16/4 tokenring
the token ring card MUST be connected to a token ring network for it to even
initialize correctly. You didn't say if it is or not. A token ring card
cannot be in isolation.
Martin van Betlehem wrote:
> Hi Peter, Hi all...
>
> I also have an auto 6/4 tok IBM isa card. I get an error message
>
> like : tr0:Unrecoverable error:errorcode = 0011
>
> So if you or anyone else have an idea whats wrong tell me....
>
> I've RH 5.1 fully installed. Everything works fine but the tr0./
>
> And there are 2 adaptors PCI Wak on Lan here, no question about them,
>
> there are no drivers available?
>
> Thanks in advance ..
>
> Martyin
>
> Peter Hyacinth wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
>
> >
>
> > I have installed linux ver 2.0 on my machine and now trying to connect
>
> > to the lan. The problem I have is that patches for tokenring appears
>
> > to be pretty limited and for my IBM auto 16/4 token-ring isa
>
> > adapter non-existant.
>
> >
>
> > The second challenge I have is that I am new to linux so if there
>
> > is a patch available would you also know of any installation
>
> > instructions to go with it.
>
> >
>
> > Many thanks Peter Hyacinth.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "Fox Mulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Redhat 5.2 on Compaq Proliant 2000 not recongize SCSI contoller
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:00:14 +0800
Sorry for cross posting but I have working on it for too long time.
I have got a Compaq Proliant 2000 server with EISA channel and plugged with
a Compaq NCR chips SCSI controller. By some reason the setup program seems
unable to found the SCSI controller automatically (Both the internal and
EISA add-on).
I believe there will is necessary to put in some parameter during the
install and I have tried "base_address=9000 irq=15" etc but still not able
to make it work.
Please can you help
Regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Clark)
Subject: Problems with Redhat 5.2, Kernel 2.2.5, Aliased adapters
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:44:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I upgraded my Redhat system from a base 5.2 install with all the
updates applied, kernel 2.0.36, and had it successfully booting and
initialising aliased adapters with no problem.
So, due to the Framebuffer support I upgraded that with the
appropriate Kernel 2.x RPMs, got Kernel 2.2.5, compiled, installed,
viola - boots fine. However, when it gets to a point in the boot
process it goes "SIOCCADDR" No kernel support for device aliasing.
However, I can type "ifconfig" and get alises fine on the same system
after the boot sequence is complete.
Anyone have any suggestions where to look? I do have IP Aliasing
compiled into the kernel.....
Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 20:46:42 +0200
From: Reto Buetzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Help Needed
Change or add the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP\EnablePlainTextPassword
Type DWORD
Value=1
Reto Buetzberger
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SLOW Telnet????
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:14:01 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tony s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>Nope the linux box is pure!
>
>BUT check these findings out:
>
>Pinging my own linux resulted in and access speed of 0.5 to 0.6 ms.
>
As in, from linux box to the same box? Mine normally returns 0.1ms or
less for that, I think..
>BUT ifconfig gives tx and rx of between 60 and 114 should this not be a LOT
>higher?
Don't know.. 8-(
<snip>
>
>I got two w95 boxes linked on this system now (just to check the lines and
>cards) no probs between the two and they see each other with full access
>and they both also see the linux box, but, I presume, due to the low spees
>neither can access the linux box.
>
>any clues?
>
Not really.. My vaguest stab-in-the-dark would be to check the IRQ for
the card is being set-up properly.. (IE take the card down and then
respecify an IRQ in the ifconfig eth0 up ... statement)
--
Mist.
http://www.misthaven.demon.co.uk/prof/
Short FAQ on Demon and HTML.
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From: "T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: problem with telnetd and utmp....
Date: 3 Apr 1999 03:47:49 GMT
Got trouble with telnetd...... when a user connects to the linux server
(redhat 5.2+kernel 2.2.4-4) by telnet it works with no problem but when he
logout all process are terminated but when i'm typing who the users seem to
be still connecting....
I think telnetd doesn't clean up utmp but I don't know how to fixed up...
any ideas?
Best regards,
T.R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.)
Subject: PtP link problems ... full crazy today
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 04:04:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I need to link 5 computer whit real internet adress to my internet
network via PPP, this is the situation:
Internet Network 194.224.xxx.xxx
|
PtP.LinuxServerDialIn(ipadress 194.224.xxx.22)
|
--PtPISDNLink---
|
PtP.Linux.DialOutComputer(IsdnCard+Ethernet)
|
eth0 194.224.xxx.54 PtP 194.224.xxx.22
|
194.224.xxx.49
|
194.224.xxx.48
|
194.224.xxx.47
|
194.224.xxx.46
|
194.224.xxx.45
Ip_forwarding is enable in .22 and .54
Route and arp tables for .45 to .49 and .54 .22 setup in LinuxServer
Default route at ippp1-.54
Route added for .45 to .49 to eth0
>From .54 to all the internet: ping, ftp, www, etc, not problem.
>From .45-.49 to .54 and .22: ping, ftp, www, etc. not problem
>From Internet to .54: not problem all work
>From .45-.49 to internet: NOTHING NOT WORK
>From Internet to .45-.49: NOTHING NOT WORK
What is bad?
Any idea, i am crazy today?
Thanks
Manuel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Update
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:43:33 -0500
El Hombre wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is a realy stupid question, but, how do I update my kernel. I got
> SuSE Linux 6.0 with the 2.0 kernel. I got the new kernel on a cd (2.2),
> it was downloaded (so it's not untared).
> Could anyone please give me a point for point instruction how to
> upgrade.
Check this:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.htm
--
Free commodity/stock graphing software
and Linux links at http://www.daveware.com
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:49:11 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ifmon-1.0 - Interface Monitor
Greetings,
Out of necessity I have developed a tool which I call IFMON. It's
primary purpose is to monitor a specific network interface and execute a
user supplied command when the interface becomes unavailable. In my
particular instance I needed to re-establish a point-to-point connection
to the Internet when my analog line goes down. Later, I discovered that
it worked well to send an alert to another console if the same interface
went down. (I was ready for the phone calls then).
I developed ifmon from various sources and books that I have, so it is
in need of refinement.
$> ps -u shows 0.0% CPU and 824 SIZE on a Pentium 166 (I think I can do
better)
If you would like to give it a try I have created a simple page for it
at:
http://users.desupernet.net/a42n8k9/ifmon/
Let me know what you think,
Bennett
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