Linux-Networking Digest #777, Volume #10 Wed, 7 Apr 99 10:14:29 EDT
Contents:
windows & linux (Tony Langdon)
Re: CDE for Linux (Roope Anttinen)
Re: slow ethernet ("Rahul")
Displaying the Kernel Routing Table is very slow ! (Volker Steltenkamp)
Re: boot 286 from Linux server? (John Kenyon)
Re: Name caching DNS problem (Brian McCauley)
Re: SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable error (Brian McCauley)
Cogent emaster II, NE2000 EISA (Gereon Wenzel)
TCP Port Reservation!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to set default gateway ? (Doug Snowden)
Re: Can the IP address on ppp0 & eth0 be the same? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ? ("Christopher Smith")
Re: PPP Problems ("MadMan")
smbmount problem (Rolf Niepraschk)
Re: can I run X-windows thro serial port? ("Carl R. Friend")
Re: nis/ypbind won't work (Guy Tel-Zur)
Re: i need to stop screaming ... ppp (Bill Unruh)
SAMBA HOWTO (Daniel Goh T.K.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 07 Apr 99 19:25:12
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: windows & linux
It's 06 Apr 99 15:49,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of windows & linux
re> Let me know if you have any luck with non-persistant, raw-partition.
No idea, but the persistent raw partition works fine.
.. Touched...by the hand of god...
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From: Roope Anttinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDE for Linux
Date: 7 Apr 1999 10:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
> Pls can any body tell where can i get Free CDE (Common Desktop
> Environment) for my Redhat Linux 5.2
Nowhere. CDE is wery commercial. Fortunately there are free Desktop
Environments for Linux. I've run the real thing (CDE) under HP-UX and Linux
but like KDE (www.kde.org) better. Take a look at gnome too (www.gnome.org).
Roope
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From: "Rahul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow ethernet
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:31:27 -0400
Hey I think this should work for you!! i got this excerpt from
from another news group and it worked for me .... I deleted the
entire key .... see if this works for you!!
Locate and inspect the following key/value, and then export the
whole MSTCP key (to preserve for restoration purposes should
disaster strike ;-))
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP]
"DefaultRcvWindow"="2144"
Try bumping the 2144 (yours may be different) value up to what> the other
machine shows in its same key, e.g. 8192 on both.
Re-start and test transfer speeds.
If the above didn't improve things, delete the
"DefaultRcvWindow" entry completely ( rt. click on it | delete |
confirm ) and re-test transfer speeds.
Remember, you've got that backup of the entire MSTCP key, so
import it back in if the above "deletion" offers no
improvements. And re-post for other suggestions ;-)
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Ronald Golden wrote in message
<#NKk2F1b#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
I tried your recommendations, no help. Thanks anyway. Anyone
else have any
ideas?
Ronald Golden
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> >Robert Barwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:OmoD36ob#[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>Here are a couple of things to check out. First, if one of
> your machines
> >has
> >>TweakDUN or a similar utility and you used it to improve your
> modem
> >>throughput from your ISP, set it back to "Windows defaults".
> Second, check
> >>the following key in your registry. On my network, the
> EnableDNS key was
> >set
> >>to "1" on both computers and copying was slow both ways.
> Changing the key
> >to
> >>"0" and rebooting improved copying TO that machine by 15x.
> Change the
> >>EnableDNSkey from "1" to
> >>"0" as follows:
> >>
> >>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTC
> P]
> >>
> >>EnableDNS="0"
> >>
> >>Doing the same on the second computer had no effect until I
> reset TweakDUN
> >>to the defaults.
> >>
> >>Reboot and you are ready to go.
> >>
> >>Ronald Golden wrote in message ...
> >>>I recently purchased a Dell laptop running Windows 98. I
> have networked
> >it
> >>>with my desktop, (custom made) also running Windows 98. I am
> running
> >>>TCP/IP. The two are connected using cat 5 10BaseT cable and
> a 10 mbs hub.
> >>>Here is the problem. When I transfer files from the desktop
> to the
> >laptop,
> >>>no problem. But, when I transfer a file from the laptop to
> the desktop,
> >>the
> >>>file transfer is extremely slow, like its through a modem! A
> couple of
> >>>other stats:
> >>>
> >>>The laptop is using a 3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC
> card (Ethernet
> >>>interface)
> >>>The desktop is using a PCI Fast Ethernet DEC 21140 Based
> Adapter
> >>>
> >>>The file transfers fine, just slow. Any ideas? Thanks in
> advance.
> >>>
> >>>Ronald Golden
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Steltenkamp)
Subject: Displaying the Kernel Routing Table is very slow !
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:36:06 GMT
Greetings,
I�ve set up a Linux computer to route all our subnets. Everything
works fine except the displaying of the kernel ip-routing table. It
takes up to 5 minutes to display the five static routes defined in
route.conf. The routing itself appears to work fine. Any idea ?
Thanks in advance
Volker Steltenkamp
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From: John Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot 286 from Linux server?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:58:10 +0100
Try etherboot/16.
This will allow you to create a boot prom for your network card
which then uses BOOTP/TFTP to get an IP address, and transfer a
tagged image from a server.
Go to http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/
(and IMHO well written documentation).
Important note is that you need to use etherboot/16 for a 286.
I would advise that you use the boot from floppy option before
blowing any EPROMs.
Note: I use this to make a 386SX boot Linux over a network.
Using it to boot DOS is hinted at in the documentation - I haven't
tried it, although it is on the agenda for when I have nothing better
to do.
/John
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Gereon Wenzel wrote:
>
> Is it possible to make a 286 boot DOS from a LINUX-server?
> With Novell i have to place a boot-image on the server, and the client
> mounts a remote file-system on the server.
> Is it possible to do this with bare linux, or maybe using a netware
> emulation like mars nwe?
> This strange machine is called earthstation, it does not have any slots
> nor ide or floppy port, just video and ARC-Net.
> I know, its waste of time, but i really want to try it.
> Anybody did something like this before?
>
> Gereon Wenzel
> please mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Name caching DNS problem
Date: 07 Apr 1999 12:56:52 +0100
"Tim Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a name-only caching DNS server on my local home network.
By "name-only caching DNS server" did you mean "caching-only DNS name
server"?
No you do not, you have an authoratative DNS server. Your problem has
nothing to do with the caching side of the DNS server's
functitionality.
> Apr 6 04:03:09 bert named[309]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on
> localdomain.com?
> /var/named/named.localdomain.com:
> **********************************************************
> @ IN SOA bert.localdomain.com. root.localdomain.com. (
> 1998031200 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 14400 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 86400 ) ; Minimum
> ;
> IN NS bert
> MX 10 bert
> ;
> localhost A 127.0.0.1
>
> bert A 192.168.0.1
> HINFO "Pentium 200" "Linux 2.0.36"
> www CNAME bert
> mail CNAME bert
> ftp CNAME bert
> mailserver CNAME bert
> clock CNAME bert
> news CNAME bert
> ************** end of file ****************
So far so good.
>
> /var/named/0.168.192 looks like:
> @ IN SOA bert.localdomain.com. root.localdomain.com. (
> 1997022700 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 14400 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 86400 ) ; Minimum
> IN NS localdomain.com.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here is the mistake.
> 1 IN PTR bert.localdomain.com.
This is good.
> 2 IN PTR www.localdomain.com.
> 3 IN PTR mail.localdomain.com.
> 4 IN PTR ftp.localdomain.com.
> 5 IN PTR mailserver.localdomain.com.
> 6 IN PTR clock.localdomain.com
> 7 IN PTR news.localdomain.com
These don't match the localdomain.com zone - remove them.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable error
Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:03:20 +0100
adrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ...I can ping myself, I did set the IP, DNS, Gateway, Network mask,
> etc...correctly (I think), but cannot ping other PC on network.
> At reboot I have no error message (PCMCIA card is there). If I stop the
> network using:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop ,and then
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start then I get an error SIOCADDRT: Network
> unreachable error.
> Where did I go wrong?
You probably set one of those paramters you think you got right wrong.
Without seeing them we can't really help much.
For some useful information try:
sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
This should show you the actual command that's giving the error.
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cogent emaster II, NE2000 EISA
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 13:04:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want to use this old Cogent-card with linux.
It uses standart Intel eexpress chip but with busmaster dma.
Every driver for cards with the same chip failed loading.
I still didn't find a manual, so I'm not sure if the jumpers are set
correctly. scanport does not even show a port adress.
Cogent (bought by adaptec) is no help.
How to use an NE 2000 EISA card?
the EISA I/O Ports are not availiable with the standart driver.
Do i need to use the PCI driver?
Please mail, 'cause I'm not frequent in this group.
Gereon Wenzel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TCP Port Reservation!!!
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:31:20 GMT
hi all,
is there some way/mechanism (without a kernel hack), to reserve
a bunch of say 400 odd ports (TCP) on a machine (say any flavor
of UNIX, incl. Linux), to be used as server ports (the non-well-
known ports)... eg. if my server listens on say port 1000, can
i have 10 threads waiting to serve with port numbers reserved
as 5000-5010 (and the rest, with out an associated thread),
reserved, say 5011-5200) ?
i hope my Q is clear... pl. help.
TIA
banibrata.
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From: Doug Snowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to set default gateway ?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:13:19 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On of the requirements on our network is for our hosts to set their
network default gateway to themselves. In other words the ethernet
interface on a machine might be 209.155.12.55 and I want the
default gateway to be the same address. What is the command
(route add) to set this up?
Doug Snowden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can the IP address on ppp0 & eth0 be the same?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:47:36 GMT
"Head Spark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>When setting up a real IP address to be connected to the internet via modem
>(ppp0) do you set the ethernet card (eth0) to the same IP address as the
>ppp0 to reach the "rest" of the internal network
No.
>(ie another box with a
>different (same subnet) real IP address).
[...]
Either you'll need 2 real IP addresses, or use a reserved one (192.168.x.x)
and tell all other machines about the routing needed to get data through.
Michael
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From: "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:27:39 -0400
Count me in as well. This happens with virgin install. I have *no* dns or
dhcp running. All static addresses. I put my NetXRay on the line and I see
that the linux box is doing DNS lookup on the server's own domain.
My original hosts file had (for the server)
192.168.015 quest
After I changed it to
192.168.0.15 quest quest.full.domain
the dns queries went away and I logged in very fast.
The dns queries can be particularly difficult if you have a dial-on-demand
setup or lose your dns access. In that case you have to wait for the
connection to be completed, or for the dns queries to time out.
Marten wrote in message
>I just re-installed redhat 5.2 and i have knoticed that telnet and ftp
>session take ages to start (about 20-30 seconds). Also if i do a 'route' it
>take a long time as well ('route -n' works fast). Is this a DNS problem I
>have a caching only DNS running. Also DHCP and samba. Everything seems to
>run.
>
>thanks Marten
>
>
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From: "MadMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,linux.act.ppp
Subject: Re: PPP Problems
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:56:55 +1000
G'day
>*****************
>/etc/ppp/options:
>*****************
>
>asyncmap 0
>crtscts
>local
>lock
>netmask 255.255.255.0
>passive
>debug
>kdebug 7
>proxyarp
>lcp-echo-interval 30
>
As stupid as this might sound, i have found that on some occassions using
defaultroute instead of proxyarp has made the difference.
Cheers
MadMan
>
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From: Rolf Niepraschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smbmount problem
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:00:23 +0200
Hello,
I have updated my samba to 2.0.3. Now the mounting no more work. I type
smbmount //maria/a ~/a/
and then I get the following prompt
=========
Added interface ip=194.94.94.198 bcast=194.94.94.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Wed Apr 7 10:55:16 1999
Timezone is UTC+2.0
security=share
smb: \>
=========
How can I get the service "a" on the PC "maria" mounted to my linux
directory "~/a/" ? If I use
smbclient //maria/a
the connection is ok.
Thanks in advance.
...Rolf
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From: "Carl R. Friend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can I run X-windows thro serial port?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:08:06 -0400
"Ng, Choon Hooi" wrote:
>
> I just managed to connect my laptop to my RH linux thro serial port
> (com1). My laptop doesnt have a nic, [and] works great as far as using
> it as a text-terminal, but can I run X-windows thro the serial port?
Yes, you can, with the proviso that you're going to have to use
PPP or SLIP to handle the comms between your laptop and the host
system. This means assigning IP addresses to each end and setting up
a connection mechanism (e.g. ppplogin) to handle the initial conncetion.
Once those pieces are in place, X will work over a serial line but
may feel a bit sluggish (this will vary with line speed). Good luck
with it.
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From: Guy Tel-Zur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nis/ypbind won't work
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:49:03 +0300
I work with RH5.2 and kernel 2.2.1 and I got the same problem:
Although "rpcinfo -u localhost ypbind" gave the expected answer:
"program 100007 version 2 ready and wating",
when I typed "ypwhich" it replied:
Can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound" and as Thor Gjesdal wrote I also
noticed that /var/yp/binding is empty!
I would appreciate any comments.
Guy Tel-Zur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which version of ypserv and ypbind are you using? The HOWTO is not specific
> to RedHat, and I would suggest that you download the most recent RPM's from
> RedHat. I had a similar problem... (New RedHat RPM's are also associated
> with FAQ writer Thorsten Kukuk, but I guess there are some differences (or
> the RPM install sets up something subtle that I missed).
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Thor Gjesdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've gottwo machines that I want to set up as a mini nis domain. Setting
> > up the server went ok, but I can't seem to get the client on the other
> > machine working.
> >
> > Both machines run RH 5.2 and I followed the HOWTO quite closely as this
> > is new territory to me.
> >
> > anyway, after I everything is said and done I start ypbind
> >
> > [root@thor /etc]# rc.d/init.d/ypbind start
> > Binding to the NIS domain... ypbind
> >
> > # and then we test ...
> >
> > [root@thor /etc]# ypcat passwd
> > YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
> > No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves
> > this domain
> >
> > according to the man page ypbind stores the binding information in
> > /var/yp/bindings/* _but there is nothing there_...
> >
> > If I run ypbind manually I get
> >
> > [root@thor /etc]# /sbin/ypbind --debug
> > cleared entry for domain cmr_nis.oslo: server 0.0.0.0, port 0
> > parsing config file
> > Trying entry: ypserver osl0
> >
> > parsed ypserver osl0
> > bindto_server: domain cmr_nis.oslo, host osl0
> >
> > portmap works OK
> >
> > suggestions anyone?
> >
> > thoR
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: i need to stop screaming ... ppp
Date: 7 Apr 1999 09:03:57 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Eric F. Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I setup my ppp. I got the dynamic ip for my isp. My modem dails and
]connects ( the provider is netcom). I use 199.182.120.203 as the name
]server . I have it in the resolv.conf. I dail up and the network seems
]to connect but that is it. I run route and it hangs so I do route add
Use route -n, or route tries to go out to the nameserver to get the name
corresponding to the IP number, but of course if the route or nameserver
is not set up properly it cannot get there, and so it hangs, trying to
get something it cannot get.
]199.182.120.0 and route runs .. shows I am on the network for my
]provider. I have a machine that is working so I can test the machine I
]am working on against the machine that I am trying to set up. I have the
]static ip addy in the resolver and the search domain. I run the route
]add after the connectiona nd it shows where i should be on .. but I dont
]get anything after the fact . This worked before when I started to work
]on the server for several days. I changed the ip addy when I took the
]machine out to the client. I saw that the network config was a little
]off .. I changed modems. and tested the config again. nothing works.
]Anyone have any ideals. I am stumped. All the things in the network here
]are setup the same so I dont get it. I thing everything fits .
]Here is what I am using :
]redhat 5.2
]Pentium 90
]16 meg
]56k generic modem set on com2
If internal is ita winmodem?
]s3 video card
]network card (d-link 16 )
This probably means that your system puts a default route onto the
network. But if pppd finds a default route already established, it
refuses to set up a default route to the ppp connection-- whichprobably
means youcannot get anywhere.
]2 gig hard drive
]that's it
]I dont get it but I need a little help
]Another hint
]I had it working and I changed the ip addy
]I replaced the modem to see if that was it but the modem does the same
]thing.
]this is weird
]so any suggestions would be apreciated
]tia
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From: Daniel Goh T.K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SAMBA HOWTO
Date: 7 Apr 1999 08:22:33 GMT
Hi,
I've been trying to setup SAMBA for a long time, but to no avil. I have read
the samba howtos, but they are quite complicated. Does anyone have any good
documentation for newbies like me?
Thanks.
Daniel
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