Linux-Networking Digest #603, Volume #10 Tue, 23 Mar 99 11:14:19 EST
Contents:
Re: What is the best Linux to install? - Consider Freebsd instead (Lee Blevins)
Re: HELP: changing NIC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux WAN router advice (Tracy Johns)
Re: 3Com 509 won't go (detailed!) (Robert Eliassen)
Re: pppd server setup? (Eric Rossing)
Monitoring ethernet loads (Corne van Dyk)
Why networking with Linux?? ("chiwai")
Re: Linux into 98 (Lew Pitcher)
telnet and ftp - delay by 1 mnt (Ramesh Kumar)
Operation with parallel IP address blocks ("Bryan White")
Re: INN 2.2 question (Nicholas Gareth John OBrien)
Re: How do I set up a dhcp Server?? (Porne Cavan)
NIS rsh problem (Ulrik Kjems)
NIS rsh problem (Ulrik Kjems)
Re: INN 2.2 question (Russ Allbery)
linuxconf, ftp server and quotas ("Adam Lister")
Varied access levels in PPP connections (Eric Rossing)
Re: Sextuple Boot (Chris Bowman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Blevins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install? - Consider Freebsd instead
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:12:06 -0500
You may want to consider freebsd instead.
Better docs. Easier more intuitive install. Alltogether better system.
urgrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <7d6822$6u1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> >What's the best tasting fruit: Apples, Pears, Oranges, or Bananas?
> >
> >If it's not in the FAQ's, it should be added.
> >
> >Maybe we should all answer: Best? In What Way?
> >
> >Or maybe someone should just set up a "Best" distro of Linux, maybe
> >at www.BestLinux.com and we could send them all there.
> >
> >Then hire a guy name Best to be the webmaster.
>
> Which Linux distro suits a certain user is not only a matter of taste. If the
> poster describes himself as a home pc user, used to win98, with little to no
> linux experience who just want to get the thing running, he is NOT going
> to enjoy slackware. I'd recommend red hat or suse. If he's a coder who wants
> to start coding on the linux platform then i'd recommend he keep away from the
> likes of RPM and YaST. Which linux you choose has a lot more to do with your
> needs, experience, and how much time you are willing to invest than just
> taste. so i see nothing wrong with a newbie describing his needs and asking
> experienced users for advice. And I wish people who did (find something wrong
> with it) would just skip that message and not turn the thread into an
> argument.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: changing NIC
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:53:05 GMT
Hi
I am using RH 5.2. I have tried using the tulip drivers but it don't seens to
work. Is this the driver I'm suppose to use?
thanks
tong kiat
In article <b4vJ2.1061$R22.58265@insync>,
"Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tong Kiat wrote in message <7d0l5o$sdl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> |Hi
>
> |Recently due to hardware failure, I had to change the network card in my
> |machine to a
>
> |Compex ReadyLink 100TX
>
> |Can anyone tell me what is the procedure to active this card so that it can
> |be use in Linux.
>
> First, you will need to provide us with much more information. What
> distribution and version are you running? What card did you have? What is
> the chipset of the card you have now?
> A basic answer, is that you will have to install the driver for your new
> card, and netconfig it. This should be after removing you old card driver.
> Depending on your distribution, there may be easier methods.
>
> Lee
>
> --
> SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
> necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
> Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
> not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
> solely responsible for my words.
>
>
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From: Tracy Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux WAN router advice
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:57:44 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Can somone give me advise as to how to set up a WAN router using a
Linux box? I need to replace 2 aging 3com routers that connect 2
buildings over T1 line. I understand that it CAN be done, but where can
I find the information on HOW to do it.
Although I have set up quit a few Linux boxes I have not set up a
router before, nor have I setup a WAN router. This router needs to rout
TCP/IP and IPX/SPX protocols.
I have looked at the information on Wanpipe's web page, as well as a
few recent posings here.
Thanks,
Tracy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Eliassen)
Subject: Re: 3Com 509 won't go (detailed!)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Mar 1999 22:33:05 -0500, Ed Legowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Get a copy of the 3com configuration utility for the 3c509 card
>(3c5x9cfg.exe), available at the 3com web site. Boot to Dos, then
>run 3c5x9cfg. You will be able to set I/O port and IRQ, either
>automatically, or manually, and perform some simple tests to verify
>that the card is working. The auto-config option usually works
>very well, automatically selecting ports and IRQ which are not used
>by any other device.
Hey, that doesn't work dude. I quote J.D. in the original posting:
<QUOTE>
I heard about the DOS configuration utility, so I grabbed it
and ran it. It told me (not quite verbatim), "You are running an ISA
card configured in EISA mode in an ISA slot. Remove it, put it in an
EISA computer, and configure it to ISA mode there." This is not what I
would call helpful advice. I try turning off my PnP BIOS; it makes no
difference.
</QUOTE>
I have the same type of card (a combo 3C509B actually) and it doesn't
work either. It doesn't work in DOS, Win9x, WinNT or Linux. The config
utility (3C5X9CFG.EXE) tells me the same storry: "You are running an
ISA card configured in EISA mode..." etc. etc.
My problem is that I doesn't have a EISA computer so I guess my card
is either stuck in EISA mode (for the rest of it's life) or faulty.
Bob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Rossing)
Subject: Re: pppd server setup?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:52:16 GMT
On 22 Mar 1999 22:27:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantin Wiesel) wrote:
: I would like to know the correct parameters for pppd to make it start without
: saying it misses the entries in the authentication files.
:
: I have setup the pap-secrets with the user information. But i want to make pppd
: a server which authenticates all users in the secrets file, not only the one i
: use in the pppd parameters "user" and "remote".
:
: I can start pppd with the parameters "+ppp login" but i want to use only the
: secrets file. Can anybody please help me here?
I'm not sure if this exactly applies, but...
This is my pppd execution line:
/usr/sbin/pppd-2.3 auth login +pap -chap modem crtscts proxyarp lock
And this is my pap-secrets file:
# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client server secret IP addresses
* * "" *
>From what I read in the pppd manpage, login will cause pppd to authenticate
against the usename/password file in addition to the pap-secrets file. My
pap-secrets file specifies a blank secret for all clients, all servers, all
IP addresses, which lets anything through, and all authentication is done
against the regular passwd file.
Hope this helps!
Eric Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Corne van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitoring ethernet loads
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:33:06 +0200
Hi!
I am trying to set up a linux machine to monitor load on our various
ethernet hubs. The idea would be to run some monitoring package and then
plug the ethernet cable into whichever hub is of interest.
What different apps are available? I've tried netwatch, sniffit and
statnet so far. Statnet works the best for giving percentage values.
However, I noticed a strange thing: when plugged into a fastethernet
hub, statnet reads about 2meg of traffic, but shows an ethernet load of
around 160%. The monitoring box has a 10/100Mb IntelExpress ethernet
card installed. Would the OS set this into 100M mode automatically or
should I explicitly set it. This is the only reason I can think of that
statnet gives 160% load.
Any ideas or input?
Regards
Corne
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From: "chiwai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why networking with Linux??
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:54:11 +0100
My question is what is the good thing of a LAN Linux network ?
You can use FTP to transfer files.. .. to your local computer... and .. what
more ???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux into 98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:01:02 GMT
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:29:19 -0500, "Matt Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I guess I will have to tone down my earlier enthusiasm a little bit.
>After playing around a little bit, I discovered that windows will not accept
>a connection from linux, even though I can ping it just fine. I know this
>should be simple, but again I need just a little bit of assistance, even
>point me to a HOWTO or a man page. Thanks a lot
You say "windows will not accept a connection from linux"; what sort of connection?
Windows typically doesn't come with any server support other than "Peer for Microsoft
Networks". Any other 'connection' is an add-in product for Windows.
Perhaps the connection you are trying to make is one that you don't have a Windows
server running for?
>Matt Anderson
>BTW--I want to ultimately winproxy my internet connection into linux (i'm a
>poor college student and for some GOD-AWFUL reason I'm stuck with a
>winmodem) .
>
>
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: Ramesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnet and ftp - delay by 1 mnt
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:59:59 -0500
I m logging on to a Red Hat Linux 5.1 machine thru telnet.
The connection seems to go through but the login prompt comes
after a delay of 1-2 mnts ??
Why does it take so much time ??
Same is true for ftp.
-Ramesh
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From: "Bryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Operation with parallel IP address blocks
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:13:37 GMT
We are enlarging our IP address allocation from 64 to 128. We have a
Firewall Linux box with 3 NICs. One to the router, one to the internal lan,
and one to the servers. The servers are also running linux. We would like
to do this switch over with minimal downtime. The biggiest problem is that
old DNS information may live on the net for days after the change over.
Our ISP has suggested we configure all our boxes to respond to both
addresses during the change over. Is this possible with linux (RedHat 5.0 -
kernel 2.0.31 and RedHat 5.2 - kernel 2.0.36)? I have configured servers to
repond to multiple addresses before but this means configuring a NIC to be
on multiple subnets.
I figured my first step was to change the firewall. This failed when
running the second ifconfig command on each nic. The commands and output
were:
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 NEWADDR netmask NEWMASK mtu 1500 metrics 1 up
ifconfig eth0:0 OLDADDR netmask OLDMASK mtu 1500 metrics 1 up
SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by this device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by this device
SIOCSIFMTU: Operation not supported by this device
SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported by this device
This same sequence is repeated for eth0, eth1, and eth2.
Any suggestions? Would the current 2.2.x kernel be of any help here? In
practice how much of a disruption is it to just switch to the new IP block?
We are primarily a web site.
--
Bryan White
ArcaMax
www.arcamax.com
Madness is a sign of the times.
You must learn to embrace it,
let it inspire you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Gareth John OBrien)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN 2.2 question
Date: 23 Mar 1999 14:21:11 GMT
Dave Barr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <7d6abq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: The Lone Scribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Read the INN FAQ at http://www.blank.org/innfaq/ and it should answer your
: >questions quite nicely, as well as tell you a few more important things you
: >need to know about running a news server, which is not a trivial matter.
[snip]
:
: All attempts to get the "maintainers" to do something has failed.
Yeah it is shame about that - I know the maintainers are very busy
people which is the main reason. However I wonder if it is also to do with
the rumours I hear from time to time that ISC want to take INN down
a commerical route at some point.
: There is a 2.x FAQ getting started but unfortunately I lost the URL.
Well there is a HOWTO on INN 2.x which is a start:
http://www.inter.nl.net/users/Elena.Samsonova/unix/general/INN/
inn-open-source.html
Nick.
--
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"Who are you? What do you want?" - Lorien, B5
Nick O'Brien Phone: +44 118 931 8432
Computer Officer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reading University, UK Web: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~suq98ngo/
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From: Porne Cavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: How do I set up a dhcp Server??
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:13:58 -0600
the simplest way is to use gunzip dhcp-1.0pl2.tar.gz giving you
dhcp-1.0pl2.tar. Now you would tar xvf
dhcp-1.0pl2.tar to give you whatever folder was tar'd. ( It would prolly be
dhcp-1.0pl2 ). ok? :)
As far as setting up a dhcp server, you would first build it. Then edit
/etc/dhcpd.conf to set up your dhcp rules.
After that's all taken care of, just run dhcpd as root and any machines that
use dhcp will be assigned an ip address according to your rules.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Russ wrote:
> Thanks Al,
>
> as described I downloaded the file dhcp-1.0pl2.tar.gz which brings me to
> the next stupid question. How do I unpack *gz files or *tar files.
> Actually, I think I could cope with tar archives, but not with *gz
> archives.
>
> Tom
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From: Ulrik Kjems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS rsh problem
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:32:28 +0100
Hello !
We have a cluster of computers running Linux Redhat 5.2.
I have put NIS on the cluster for passwords and group which seems to be
working fine, except when an application is trying to make rsh
connections to the other computers in the cluster too rapidly (too
rapidly meaning more than 2-4 rsh connections per second). This is
particularly annoying when starting a large number of parallel
applications (e.g. using PVM). What happens is that rsh fails with the
error
rsh: shell/tcp: unknown service.
This would occur when trying to rsh from the same computer to e.g. all
the other computers in the cluster at one time (i.e. in parallel)
I suspect NIS to be the problem because if I uninstall NIS on one of the
computers and do the same, there are no errors. So the problem arises on
the computers where the rsh is done *from*
I have installed :
ypbind version 3.3-glibc3
ypserv - NYS YP Server version 1.3.6 (with securenets)
I am running Linux 2.0.35/2.0.36
--
==============================================================================
Ulrik Kjems, M.Sc.E.E.Ph.D.
Digital Signal Processing Group
Department of Mathematical Modelling
Building 321, Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Phone: +45 4525 3894 (direct), +45 4525 2525 (op)
==============================================================================
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From: Ulrik Kjems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS rsh problem
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:32:56 +0100
Hello !
We have a cluster of computers running Linux Redhat 5.2.
I have put NIS on the cluster for passwords and group which seems to be
working fine, except when an application is trying to make rsh
connections to the other computers in the cluster too rapidly (too
rapidly meaning more than 2-4 rsh connections per second). This is
particularly annoying when starting a large number of parallel
applications (e.g. using PVM). What happens is that rsh fails with the
error
rsh: shell/tcp: unknown service.
This would occur when trying to rsh from the same computer to e.g. all
the other computers in the cluster at one time (i.e. in parallel)
I suspect NIS to be the problem because if I uninstall NIS on one of the
computers and do the same, there are no errors. So the problem arises on
the computers where the rsh is done *from*
I have installed :
ypbind version 3.3-glibc3
ypserv - NYS YP Server version 1.3.6 (with securenets)
I am running Linux 2.0.35/2.0.36
--
==============================================================================
Ulrik Kjems, M.Sc.E.E.Ph.D.
Digital Signal Processing Group
Department of Mathematical Modelling
Building 321, Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Phone: +45 4525 3894 (direct), +45 4525 2525 (op)
==============================================================================
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From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN 2.2 question
Date: 23 Mar 1999 06:51:16 -0800
Nicholas Gareth John OBrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah it is shame about that - I know the maintainers are very busy
> people which is the main reason. However I wonder if it is also to do
> with the rumours I hear from time to time that ISC want to take INN down
> a commerical route at some point.
Given that the majority of the people who are currently working on INN
aren't affiliated with ISC, that would surprise me. If they were looking
to do that, I think they'd be devoting more staff time to it.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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From: "Adam Lister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linuxconf, ftp server and quotas
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:30:58 -0000
Hi,
I'm having a problem with linuxconf.
I have set up anonftp and everything was fine. The I used linuxconf to add
a disk quota to the ftp account, however now everytime I run linuxconf it
takes write access off /home/ftp/pub and changes its rights to dr-xr-sr-x
(it puts the s in), on top of this it then changes the owner/group of
/home/ftp to root/root so that it can no longer access the account itself
(it gives a message that owner/group are wrong).
Have I done something stupid?
Adam Lister
PS. /home/ftp/pub is also set up as a samba public share.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Rossing)
Subject: Varied access levels in PPP connections
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:33:40 GMT
Right now, I have a Linux 2.2.2 machine that acts as a network
gateway/firewall for my office LAN. In addition, I have two PPP dial-in
lines into this machine.
How can I set things up so that certain users can make a PPP connection and
have full Internet access while other users can only connect to the
in-office network, and not to the Internet.
I have the full-Internet dial-in capability for all users right now. We
would like to limit some users to intranet access.
Thanks!
Eric Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.os.netware.misc
Subject: Re: Sextuple Boot
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:38:04 -0600
I would appreciate any info you could send me about dual boot NT and Linux.
Thanks in advance.
Cj
DaZZa wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Forrest wrote:
>
> > You're right, NT's boot loader couldn't see the Linux partition on my
> > computer.
>
> It can - you just have to be a little tricky at making it work.
>
> My NT machine boots straight into Linux from the NT loader. No hassles, no
> problems.
>
> Email if you want the exact method.
>
> DaZZa
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