Linux-Networking Digest #633, Volume #10 Thu, 25 Mar 99 21:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (jedi)
Re: remote x server problems ("Michael")
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Rick Runowski)
Re: Network unreachable or server down. ("Georgios")
No Internet Access ("Matt Anderson")
Re: Advice on NIC's and hubs ("Matt Anderson")
SOHOware Auto 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter? (Taylor Hutt)
Re: can't telnet to my machine (mist)
Re: After Samba installation ("Matt Anderson")
Re: Port Forwarding and dynamic IP (Greg Weeks)
Re: Linux as a firewall!! (Greg Weeks)
Re: X server and XDM (Greg Weeks)
Fast Ethernet Card support ..... (Hus)
We require your help please
i keep getting disconnected! why? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PPP in minicom and kpppd but not in console (tobi)
Re: Samba encrypted passwords --PLEASE READ (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Bought modem to work in LINUX! (Robert Lynch)
Re: ICQ Client and socks... (Matthew Mactyre)
Re: Operation with parallel IP address blocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3c589 PCMCIA Adapter wont't work (Florian Lenz)
how to (corentin)
Re: 100BaseT Ethernet card (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Running MSDOS programs over PPP ("K.A. Steensma")
Re: Operation with parallel IP address blocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DHCP and eth0 fail after 2.2.3 ("Adam")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:24:49 -0800
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:17:58 +0800, Graham Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>RedHat - the boxed set - by far the easiest to install. And comes with
>several Linux books on CD ROM. If your PC supports it you can boot into
You are refering to the MacMillian 3rdParty version of Redhat.
Official redhat only comes with the small blue manual which can
also be bought separately for 15bux (Borders).
>Linux from the CD
>
>Graham Daniell
>(A beginner)
>
>Joe Keane wrote:
>>
>> In article <7d6822$6u1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Rufus V. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >What's the best tasting fruit: Apples, Pears, Oranges, or Bananas?
>>
>> Pears.
>>
>> >If it's not in the FAQ's, it should be added.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Keane, amateur mathematician
>
>--
>Graham Daniell
>Perth, Western Australia
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From: "Michael" <&&[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remote x server problems
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:35:22 -0700
thanks. I was looking for a free one as well. thing is, this speed problem
happened both with exceed and another commercial program that had 1/2 hour
maximum sessions until you paid the cost. I'll find vnc and install it.
thanks
ms
>
>this looks to me like an exceed-problem , have you asked these guys? i'm
no, I borrowed a copy from work...
>using vnc,btw, its free, its a bit sloppy but not more than some other
>x-servers i've seen , and it goes both ways - you can see your
>winnt(or9x)screen on the linux-side as well. try it maybe you'll like it
the
>homepage-adress is somewhere in this newsgroup - hunt for 'x-servers' its
orl
>in uk i think
>
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From: Rick Runowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:21:58 -0600
I use charictar names... right now Guile (from Street Fighter) and soon
(hopefully) Scorpion (Mortal Kombat).
Cheers.
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING wrote:
> [newsgroups trimmed]
>
> For the home LAN (possibly soon to be a family & friends WAN) I am
> using names of mostly older (some newer) arcade videogames (no home
> console only games) as hostnames. So far:
>
> centipede my Pentium-90 running Slackware Linux
> phoenix mom's Pentium-90 running Win95 but also capable of Linux
> defender my 486DX/33 running LRP Linux distro (router)
> omegarace my 486DX(2?)/66 running Slackware Linux, offline right now
>
> Names I plan to use in the future include pacman, timecrisis, digdug,
> tempest, battlezone, and stargate among others (in no particular
> order); I have a list of 90-100 made Just In Case. I'm deliberately
> avoiding using names of sequels where they repeat most of the original
> title (e.g., donkeykongjr, timecrisis2, supermariobros are all
> avoided). Longer names also don't work well; missilecommand and
> killerinstinct, while on the list, are both 14 characters long, which
> I'm declaring the unofficial limit at least for the canonical list.
>
> If I ever run out, I'll probably use cartoon/comic strip characters.
>
> --
> Shawn K. Quinn
>
>
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From: "Georgios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network unreachable or server down.
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:30:14 +0100
Thanks for response.
I've also done the following:
Run ifconfig; here are some details:
Io
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Bcast: 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
etc..
ppp0
inet addr: 195.119.124.93 PtP:194.41.78.194. Mask: 235.255.255.0
UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1524 METRIC:1
Rx packets 10 error 0 etc..
Tx packets 10 errors 0 etc..
collisions 0
Mem...
I can also ping servers on the internet sucessfully
When I'm trying with netscape it seems that the servers has been found but
its waiting an eternity for response ..
I have seen on the kde kppp details window the rate 1kb/s ??..
Before installing RH-5.2 I was using for a while the RH-5.1 and I had no
problems with the ppp (even without assining DNS servers nor gateway to the
script...)
Geo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit dans le message
<7dcmo8$o7b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <7dbfp7$h5j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Georgios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I 've just set-up my RedHat 5.2 ppp but..I have an access problem to my
ISP
>>
>> After connecting to my ISP without any problem I get the "Network error
>> Unable to connect to server TCP error Network unreachable or the server
is
>> down".
>>
>> Does anybody has an idea??
>>
>>
>
>first: what do you do AFTER connecting to your isp, to elicit this
response?
>( which program do you start) second : look at ifconfig to see that ppp is
>running, has the correct dns-servers, etc ... try to ping the proxy-server
of
>your isp, the dns-servers - see that that works after that , maybe THE
>(which?) server is really down
>
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From: "Matt Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: No Internet Access
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:20:55 -0500
You all have been such a great help. Don't think I've ever learned so much
about anything in so little time. Anyway, here's my next problem. I've
been trying to proxy my internet connection from windows to linux. It's so
close to working, but I've finally become stuck. Forever and ever Netscape
told me it couldn't find a DNS entry for the page, i.e. something wasn't
configured right. I got past that, and Netscape looks like it's connecting,
but then it tells me that the page has no data. Happens for every page I
try. I'm thinking it's either the socks host isn't setup right, or the
http. I've got them pointing directly to my server, on the appropriate
ports. I'm using winproxy. If it helps:
192.168.55.2 = Windows
192.168.55.1 = Linux
Netcape: proxy settings
HTTP = 192.168.55.2:80
SOCKS = 192.168.55.2:1080
Do I need to direct it to only one of the servers perhaps? I'm so close,
any tips would be great. Thanks again
Matt Anderson
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From: "Matt Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice on NIC's and hubs
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:22:01 -0500
I've got a 3com card in linux (not sure which one, it's a pci/combo card
though). I love it, its fast, and linux new exactly what to do with it.
Matt Anderson
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From: Taylor Hutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SOHOware Auto 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:44:28 -0800
Is this Ethernet card supported at all by Linux?
The manual that comes with the card isn't very enlightening about what
hardware
is actually one the card, so I haven't been successful in getting it to
work at all.
Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't telnet to my machine
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:19:53 +0000
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed to us that -
>I have a RH 5.0 box. I am unable to telnet or ftp to that machine from any
>other machine on the network, although I can ping it, use apache, etc. It is
>able to access other machines as well. I am able to telnet to 127.0.0.1 on
>that machine, and to its ip address (192.168.0.1). My /etc/hosts.allow and
>hosts.deny files are empty, so I don't think that's the problem.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Does this not mean that everything else is
denied by default?? With ALL : ALL in /etc/hosts.allow does telnet work
from the other machine then?
--
Mist.
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From: "Matt Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After Samba installation
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:37:04 -0500
I don't think DNS matters, but you do need to have the FTP server setup.
Without that you're pretty much SOL.
Matt Anderson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: Port Forwarding and dynamic IP
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:14:29 -0600
In article <7d9kp4$416$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Preston F. Crow) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Preston F. Crow) writes:
> Yes, I could hack DHCP to solve the problem, but I want to just make
> it dependent on the interface, so my forwarding can be kept isolated
It's not a hack. It's an option on the dhcpcd startup line. The portfw is in it's own
script. The script I use is doing more than just portfwing too.
> from my DHCP configuration. Fortunately, I found a solution:
>
> ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p TCP -y -d 0/0 6001 -m 1
> ipmasqadm mfw -A -m 1 -r 172.25.5.218 6000
>
> This does the same thing as I was trying to do, only in a two-step
> process. First, my firewall detects attempted connections from eth0
> to port 6001, and marks the packets. Then I use ipmasqadm to redirect
> those marked packets to the internal system. At no point do my
> firewalling and forwarding rules need to know anything about IP
> numbers that I don't control, which makes for a nice isolation of
> features.
This looks like it works pretty good. The older ipportfw code can't do
packet marking. I really need to start playing with the 2.2 kernels.
Greg Weeks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: Linux as a firewall!!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:47:07 -0600
In article <7ddn3d$kg7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The problem I'm confronted to is that the hosts in the DMZ will
> have the same network number than the firewall network card
> connected to the CISCO.
>
> How the cisco knows it have to route using the firewall to
> connect to my www server inside the DMZ
>
>
> I think the CISCO must be configurated a particular way for
> the DMZ to work ? I won't be the cisco owner, my ISP will ...
>
> Ideas ?
I think the cicso will need to be set up with the firewall as the
gateway for that segment. I'm a little out of my depth here as I've
never worked with the big cisco routers. The other option might be to
have the DMZ be off a hub from the cisco router. This assumes the
cisco will be enough of a firewall for your DMZ.
You might also be able to set up some sort of a hybrid router/bridge
with the Linux firewall. A bridge can have ip addresses on both it's
interfaces, though it usually won't. This might not work too, I've
never seen anything set up like this.
Greg Weeks
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: X server and XDM
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:02:43 -0600
In article <tOvK2.5164$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael" <&&[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have found additionally that when I start xdm or xdm -nodaemon (not sure
> what that does), it actually starts TWO xdm processes -- one is fixed, and
> the other one continutally dies and restarts, each time getting a new PID.
> I think this is why the disk is contintually accessed... What's causing
> this? I don't recall this happening a week ago.
Best guess. It's trying to start a local X server on the
console. Unless you've actually configured a server for the console it
will fail. XDM will log the error and try again. This log file will
fill up your HD space. When you reboot the log file will be deleted
and sterted over. If you don't leave the machine up for several days
at a time you might not notice the log filling up.
Go to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment out the local line.
Greg Weeks
--
http://durendal.tzo.com/greg/
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From: Hus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,cern.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:23:58 GMT
Hello,
Greetings!!!
I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
modules provided by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
need a specific linux device driver for it??)
I have entered relevant info such as ip addresses, subnet
masks,gateways,dns etc.
I dont see "eth0" in my proc/net/dev or my ifconfig. They both show me a
"lo"-local loop and a dummy device...thats it.
I need to understand if this card is supported by Linux at al?? And
what are my options other than buying a new card!!
Need help ..sooooooonnnn...!!
Thanks
Huseni
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: We require your help please
Date: 25 Mar 1999 19:22:48 GMT
My Friend and I are trying to trace the following information:
1. The Lyrics to a song called "Somewhere in Time" (from a musical not sure.)
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.vandaking.com
2. The Sheet Music to a song called OH HAPPY DAYS a gospel song from sister act film I
think?
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://user.super.net.uk/~garryg
Thanks Garry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: i keep getting disconnected! why?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:23:28 GMT
I am having a problem staying connected to my isp when connecting with
my laptop. The laptop is a IBM thinkpad 700c runnin zipslack with kernel
2.2.3
I connect normally and everything runs fine. I get messages about
LCP Echo Req send and LCP Echo Req recieve, constantly. Then after about
5 min i get a terrible lag and i get a few LCP Term Req then it says somethin
like connection reset by pear (^C) and then i get disconnected and pppd
exits. I cant figure it out. I am connecting with a very slow connection of
2400 bps but i am able to connect to other isps fine and stay connected for
hours. If u can help me in any way id apreciate it.. thanks
NetJedi
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From: tobi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP in minicom and kpppd but not in console
Date: 26 Mar 1999 01:31:54 GMT
System:PPC604 UMAX PULSAR/208MB RAM/Seperated LINUX HD/ISDN to serial
adaptor ?56700? with xonxoff (Hermstedt ANDANTE)
MK LINUX DR3 Kernel 2.1.8
pppd 2.2.0 NEWBIE
Modem definitly works like usuall non ISDN because connected to ttyS0, is
Hayes compatible but uses xonxoff...have all options configured in /etc/ppp/
options, also resolv.conf, HOSTNAME, hosts.conf etc. var/log/messages tells
me "unsupported speed 56700". I think that my modem can handle more than
that so I tried to configure serial with setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_vhi ...not
possible, so i tried setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, not possible because of same
strange error msg, which reads smth like: can't get info, invalid argument.
I can however, and that's the very strange thing about it, talk to modem
manually in kpppd Terminal and minicom (ATD,ATHO,+++) and even establish ppp
connection in minicom.
That was when remote host (I.S.P.) prompted me for log: pass:,got into it
and got disconnected again. (I.S.P uses Pap but also prompts)
* What do u think ??
* Why the heck do I make it from minicom and at least see smth happen in
kpppd but don't no never see nothin ever at all in console ????
* How could xonxoff cause problems in future ???
* Why can't I obtain serial info ?
how can I install my 3Dfx card in my bridged PCI buses without crashing
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Samba encrypted passwords --PLEASE READ
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:40:18 GMT
"M. Brian Akins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>3. chmod 600 /etc/passwd
[...]
Urgh. Don't. You probably meant "chmod 600 /etc/smbpasswd" .
OTOH, this would be a perfect example for why it is always a good
idea to have a secondary root console open when doing sensitive
changes to your passwd / login files.
Michael
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Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:02:09 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bought modem to work in LINUX!
Bob D wrote:
>
> You are all correct. Using isapnp fixed the problem quickly. I'm only left
> wondering why I didn't have this problem with the original Supra288i modem I
> replaced, it being a pnp also. Is there any way to monitor the connect
> speed? I'd like to see what the new modem is doing.
>
My version of ppp pumps out messages into /var/log/messages, and one is
the connect speed:
=====
...
Mar 25 12:35:17 ravel chat[1635]: CONNECT
Mar 25 12:35:17 ravel chat[1635]: -- got it
Mar 25 12:35:17 ravel chat[1635]: send (^M)
Mar 25 12:35:17 ravel chat[1635]: expect (ogin:)
Mar 25 12:35:17 ravel chat[1635]: 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS^M
...
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HTH. Bob L.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Mactyre)
Subject: Re: ICQ Client and socks...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:50:17 GMT
Okay, I'm confused. I don't see a Linux version of Sockscap on that
site. Can you direct me to the URL that has Sockscap for Linux?
Thanks,
Matthew
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:38:59 -0500, "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://www.socks.nec.com/sockscap.html
>
>I've not had to sockify any clients after I started using sockscap.
>
>
>Matthew Mactyre wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:13:06 -0500, "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>ICQ will work thourgh a socks proxy server if you use a socks wrapper like
>>>sockscap32
>>>or another one from hummingbird. Take a look at www.socks.nec.com .
>>
>>Thanks for the advice, but I didn't see a Sockscap client for Linux on
>>www.socks.nec.com. I would still like to be able to compile with the
>>--enable-socks5 switch turned on. There are lot of clients that I'm
>>going to need socks support with...
>>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Operation with parallel IP address blocks
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:32:17 GMT
In article <lkNJ2.2287$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The biggiest problem is that old DNS information may live on
> the net for days after the change over.
Try weeks (I'm speaking from experience here).
> Our ISP has suggested we configure all our boxes to respond to both
> addresses during the change over.
Somebody at your ISP is smoking crack. As you've already discovered, setting
up an entire cluster of machines to answer to multiple IP addresses is
neither fun nor exciting. A better solution (from your point of view) would
be to set up a single box that answers to all of the old IP's, and which will
issue redirects to the new location (where appropriate). This makes tracking
use of the old IPs a trivial matter, and will give you a good indication of
when it's "safe" to stop answering the old addresses. It does mean "wasting"
a box to handle the transition, but that's simpler than putting strange yet
temporary configurations onto *all* your boxes.
> --
> Bryan White
> ArcaMax
> www.arcamax.com
ArcaMax?! Dude... why don't you just ask one of the people at XOOM?
Hey... are you the guy Roy had write all the code for GreetingsOnline?
-Bill Clark
[ex-XOOM employee, currently contracting and working on greetings.xoom.com]
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:57:26 +0100
From: Florian Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c589 PCMCIA Adapter wont't work
Hi there,
is there anyone who knows how to set up a 3C589 pcmcia NIC to work
correct. I can install the driver. The cardmanager is also active and
the LED on the adapter is on. the card should be active.
at the time i want to configure tcp/ip using the ifconfig command the
LED goes out. I get no error message but the nic is not working.
Thanks for help.
--
Florian Lenz
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From: corentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:22:38 +0100
how can i see an other comtuer via a lan both comuter are under linux
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 100BaseT Ethernet card
Date: 25 Mar 1999 16:18:01 -0500
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may be more of a hardware question but...
> Does anyone know if there is some way to fool a 100BaseT ethernet card
> into using a 10BaseT cabling and hub connection? I've checked the
> pinouts that are around on the net and as far I as can see there are
> simply more conductors.
the cabling is the same, and 99% of 100M cards will also do 10M. just plug
it in, it should work fine.
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.3 i586 | at public servers
The core is not frozen, but slushy.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "K.A. Steensma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Running MSDOS programs over PPP
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:56 GMT
I took my machine to our Linux club meeting. One of the guys did say
that he had a situation where the 192.168.0.X address' caused a problem
and he had to transfer over to the 192.168.1.X address space. While
there, 'the guys' made the Samba work over a ppp link. In essance,
(first) we found that the 'etc/ppp/options' file that is used to bring up
ppp has to be there (even if it is empty). If you start pppd using the
'file some.name' as a command line option, that is fine but you must
have the 'options' file present. It can be empty, but gave a 'file no
found' error if it didn't exist. Second, the pppd options file has to have a
'local.ip.number:remote.ip.number' (inserted; those IP numbers have
to be put in the /etc/hosts' file also) as an option (when going
to a IPS with a modem, either a static or dynamic IP address is supplied
somehow). Third, you must configure Samba to handle 'multiple
interfaces', handle 'wins-resolution', and you must (also) configure pppd
to handle the 'wins-resolution. Toward the end of the 'guys' work, they
had the ppp link up and active, found that they could ping (from the
Win95) to the IP for the ppp0 & eth0; ping from the linux server to the
ppp0 interface and to the IP assigned to the Win95 box. From the
Win95 box, the guys did a 'start/find/computer' and entered the numeric
IP of the ppp0 (interface in the Linux box). When that 'find' took off,
the tray icon (representing the modem) was blinking (to say that the find
was really seeing the ppp link as part of the computer system that could
be searched.
Anyway, what my 'real' problem was that there was something wrong with
the 2.2.1 kernel that I was running; they (the guys) replaced it with a 2.0.36
kernel and everything started working (mostly).
KAS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Where do I go (go a HOWTO or URL) to find that answers for what I need
> > to do to finish this project? TIA KAS
>
> When you have done it, you can provide us with the HowTo. I have
> heard people talk about this, but I have never seen it done.
>
> You need to get you two machines to agree on each others IP numbers.
>
> Do services such as telnet, ftp and HTTP work?
>
> You need to be sure that the smbd and nmbd ports are accessible
> over the PPP link.
>
> Once you have got started, you can follow the procedures in
> DIAGNOSIS.txt .
>
> Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Operation with parallel IP address blocks
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:45:03 GMT
In article <01be7574$35ca2950$eb0cf4d0@perl>,
"Alan Cheers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to worry. What you need to do is plan ahead. Reduce the Time To Live on
> your DNS zones to like 30 minutes or so about a week before you make the
> change.
Wow! You win the "all-around-worst-advice-regarding-DNS-TTLs" award. So, you
think it's *okay* to have a TTL of 30 minutes for a _week_ before the move?
Let's pray you never have to move a high-traffic domain. :)
The correct algorithm is to pick the "move date", then pick the lesser of
{maximum TTL, time left until move}, gradually "easing down" the TTL until the
move. Setting the TTL to 30 minutes earlier than 30 minutes before the move
will accomplish nothing but increasing the number of forward DNS lookups.
Leaving it that way for a week is pure evil.
> If all DNS servers follow the standards then the longest that your
> DNS could be wrong is whatever you set for the TTL.
Ah, but alas there are _many_ DNS servers that apparently completely ignore
TTL. I once moved a rather high-traffic website to a new address, and the
old address was still receiving nearly 10% of peak traffic after a several
days. It took well over a week before the percentage was "reasonably low"
enough that we stopped listening to the old IP.
-Bill Clark
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From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP and eth0 fail after 2.2.3
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:58:37 -0500
Wasn't sure whether to post here or to .hardware, but decided since it was
network related...
Ok, I installed kernel 2.2.3 on a Redhat 5.2 box. I've been installing 2.2.x
kernels on several of our servers, but my own personal Linux box seems to be
giving me some major problems. Everytime I reboot after compiling DHCP will
not start correctly, yet it appears that the NIC is getting loaded. The
other servers I've been working on are not DHCP, but this one is.
Any ideas? Has anyone else had this problem?
Adam
PS: Sorry, don't have a copy of dmesg right now -- kinda forgot, but (if I
can remember too) will get one when I get back to that PC again.
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