Linux-Networking Digest #674, Volume #10 Tue, 30 Mar 99 05:13:38 EST
Contents:
do_ypcall: clnt_call (Michael Nhan)
PLEASE HELP! Newbie to networking... ("Windows98NOT!")
linux server with HP-UX client problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux networking problem - Try #2 (Clay Isaacs)
Re: am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help---Modem connects but ...Websites don't open (No routing) (Jack Beatty)
Sendmail relay woes (Gawain Lynch)
Re: Two NIC's in 1 machine for double bandwidth? ("Alex Nobert")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Don Heffernan)
Re: 3c515 NIC ("Unival Computers")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (jedi)
Re: bad response times although 95% idle (Brian McCauley)
Re: very slow networking problems (Brian McCauley)
Help with ICQ and IP Masquerading ("Carl Filpo")
Re: Peculiar behavior of usernet on RedHat 5.1 (Eric Hathaway)
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From: Michael Nhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: do_ypcall: clnt_call
Date: 29 Mar 1999 16:32:03 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know how to keep linux from dropping ypbind. Heres my
problem.
I have a heterogenous network. My NIS server is a solaris sparc machine
run 2.5.1. I've a
linux x86 box running redhat 5.2 with linux 2.2.3 kernel compiled for 1gig
of ram and dual cpu. Heres my setup:
Kernel:
2.2.3 x86
daemon running:
portmap
routed (-0.10-13)
ypbind (3.3.-11)
gated (3.5.10-6)
kerneld
Xi dual pentium II 450, 1gig of ram, matrox video, 3c905.B vortex card.
I get the machine running, and it ypbinds to the NIS server without much
problems. After
a while (sometime 1hr later, sometime much longer) it begins to have
binding problems. It
returns do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out all over the console. It does
not even have
nfs disks on it yet. I'm too afraid to mount them. Once these messages
apear, I can nolonger remotely log into it. How can I prevent these
message and it dropping the binding.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks Much,
Michael
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From: "Windows98NOT!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PLEASE HELP! Newbie to networking...
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:58:16 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just completed my dedicated Red Hat 5.2 machine and I honestly
have no idea how to set up a server. I want to network two machines
together. A dual boot Red Hat/Windoze machine and a dedicated Red Hat
5.2 machine. I installed Red Hat using the server class install but have
not done anything since that (other than setting up user accounts.) I am
looking for ideas on how to handle IP. My ISP only offers dynamic IP and
I want to forward IP from the server to my Windoze workstation. I also
want to be able to dial out on command from the Windoze or Linux
partitions.
WHERE DO I START????
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux server with HP-UX client problem
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:18:48 GMT
The HP's hang on NIS logins (local accounts are OK) at the last line of the
local .profile file (the last script in the login process), and continue to
hang until I hit ctrl-C. After hitting ctrl-C to exit to the command line, if
I try to run a bourne/korn shell the shell hangs until ctrl-C.
C shell appears to work properly.
The home directories of the NIS users are remotely mounted, but the
.sh_history permissions do not seem to be the problem (known problem).
The problem does not go away until the machine is rebooted or the NIS slave
server is unplugged. Solaris, AIX, Digital unix, and linux machines do not
have problems. Has anyone else encountered this problem, and/or know of a
solution?
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From: Clay Isaacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux networking problem - Try #2
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:44:29 -0600
Hello,
I have set up a Linux FW using RedHat 5.2, ipfwadm and squid. The
machine
is a P166 with 96MB RAM and two Intel EtherPro 10/100 NIC's.
I noticed that performance is slow compared to our old setup of MS Proxy
Server 1.0 and Cisco firewall. I attached a sniffer to the line and
noticed
many retransmissions and TTL exceeded packets. Way too many. Does
anyone
know of a NIC driver or kernel problem that may be causing this? I
really
would like to see Linux performa as well as or better than the big $
companies. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Clay Isaacs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:46:13 GMT
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:04:33 GMT, "Steven R. Levitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I realize now, that I didn't make it clear that my WinNT shares physically
>reside on another PC on my peer-to-peer network. Sorry.
>
>I don't want to run a NFS server on the NT machine, so I can't mount the
>shares automatically via fstab. Instead, I'm using the smbfs utility, and,
>of the 3 automount utilities I know of, it seems that only the amd utility
>is capable of dealing with the smbmount command. If not for that, I would
>be flying with either autofs or automount.
>
>Is there anything else you can think of?
>
I have verified, it seems that autofs can handle smbfs (in autofs man
pages, I think in the 8th section). There is even an sample which sees
like :
windoze -fstype=smbfs ://windoze/c
Check out, autofs is much easier to configure.
Manu
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From: Jack Beatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help---Modem connects but ...Websites don't open (No routing)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:17:47 -0500
Eightfold� wrote:
> I am running Rehat 5.2 with the KDE desktop environment.
> I got the modem going after a little tinkering. It connects to my ISP
> and stays logged on OK, but netscape returns "cannot connect to
> server message" regardless of the site I try to open. i.e.
> www.kmart.com. www.cnn.com :--)
>
> /var/log/messages shows:
>
> <snip>
> pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> Using interface ppp0
> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
> Remote message:
> local IP address 209.19.181.2
> local IP address 209.19.181.1
> <snip>
>
> It appears to resolve fine, but Now What ???
>
> Thanks for the help
Do you have PPPsetup to add the default route? Use netcfg -rn to make
sure that you have a default route 0.0.0.0. If so,
check your /etc/resolv.conf file. You should have something like:
search host isp.net (substitute your IPSs domain name)
nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzzz (enter your ISPs DNS ip numbers)
etc.
etc.
HTH,
Jack
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From: Gawain Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail relay woes
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:18:15 +1100
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help with a small problem I have.
I have a box running Linux and Sendmail 8.9.3 as an outbound relay for
our internal mail server.
What I would like to know is, is there a way fo getting send mail to act
as an inbound relay... BUT if the other mail server is down, to queue
incoming messages until the server is up.
I have set up two MX records, the 1st points to the mail server, the 2nd
to the Sendmail box...
Any help will be much appreciated.
Gawain
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From: "Alex Nobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
Subject: Re: Two NIC's in 1 machine for double bandwidth?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:59:15 -0500
I haven't seen/used/read about this in 2-3 years, but doesn't EQL do
something similar? I remember using it over PPP connections, but that was
quite a while ago.
>Depends on the operating system running on the machines. What you are
>referring to is called "load balancing" or "trunking", depending on how
>it is implemented. NetWare 4.x or higher servers will do this (although
>the load is only really balanced outbound). Many switch vendors have
>implemented this as well. I'm unaware of any features/add-ons that will
>let you do this with WinNT, Mac, Linux or Sun. I would expect you would
>see it on Linux before anything else. ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Heffernan)
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,micorosft.public.outlook
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 03:54:58 GMT
Fascinating thread, and I didn't even notice any really hot flames.
Let me add my two cents as an example of the sort of user the original
poster thought would do better on NT than Linux.
I have a fair amount of general IT knowledge from a managerial
perspective, but am not hands on technical. I have no experience
installing or administering servers. My installation experience prior
to Linux (one month ago) was Win 95 and 98 on my two home machines. I
had a little familiarity with basic Unix commands from early Web
experience.
I decided early in March to get an SDSL line at home and wanted to
connect both of my PCs. To do it at a reasonable cost I needed to run
some sort of gateway device. The idea of running a Web server at home
also sounded like fun. NT would have required a new, high end box
which didn't seem like a sensible investment. Linux would run on a
second hand beater (a Pentium 100 with 32 M RAM and a 6G HD) and would
provide an interesting learning experience on an operating system I
had been reading about for years.
I bought Red Hat 5.2 and had my used pentium up dual booting Win 98
and a custom Linux server install in about 2 hours. Using Red Hat
documentation and a couple of books I was able to ping the Linux
server on eth0 from my other PCs across a hub almost immediately.
Setting up Apache to run a clone of my limited web site took another
hour or so.
Figuring out how to set up ipfwadm and configure a working network
behind a second NIC on the Linux box took considerably more work. I
ended up screwing everything up and had to reinstall Linux. But, with
a few newsgroup questions, and a lot of HOWTOs I got that working in a
couple of weeks. I can now connect to it from my "private" network
using telnet, ftp, http, and I'm even exporting X terminal sessions to
a WIN98 box upstairs. Samba is starting to look interesting. I'm
still a bit uncertain about my security, but I seem to have everything
from outside locked out except for http (which I want to let in). My
SDSL line is coming in about a week and I will try turning this thing
loose on the net.
The bottom line is this was quite doable for a "non-technical" person
with patience and interest. There is no way I would describe it as
something for the average user - the AOL crowd others have referred
to.
I have no NT experience with which to compare this, but I can't say I
would feel more comfortable going in that direction even if the cost
was comparable.
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From: "Unival Computers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c515 NIC
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:08:05 +0200
Steven N. Hirsch ha scritto nel messaggio ...
>On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:45:08 +0100, Unival Computers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>I'm trying to install a 3c515 on a Compaq Presario
>>CDS 633 with SuSe 5.3 and I'm using the 3c515.o
>>driver who came with SuSe (is version 0.99).
>>
>>..........
>>
>>But the system seems to not recognize my card
>>here some more information:
>>
>
>The 3C515 is an ISA PNP device and, as such, has no "actual"
>configuration of its own. You probably should be using the isapnp
>package to set the card up at boot, then load the driver as a kernel
I've configured the Nic using 3C515CFG.exe /NOPNP it tells me it saved
the confinguration in the card.
What do you mean with 'using the isapnp package'? Something like I had
to do with olders SoundBlasters? Cold boot in DOS, setting up the device,
and then warm boot in Linux?
Thank you very much
Antonino Albanese
Unival Computers Srl
>module after that's been accomplished. I used a 515 here for the past
>year with no problems at all.
>
>Steve
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,micorosft.public.outlook
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:03:48 -0800
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:27:40 +0300, Alexander I. Butenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> "Alexander I. Butenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Well,, I'd beter think that there is a Server for the client, not
>> > vice-versa.
>>
>> *boggle* what exactly are you trying to say? this sentence doesn't
>> make any sense to me.
>
>I mean that we can't say that we should cnsider the Server the main thing in
>the net, the main thing is the client and its needs. If our Server fulfills
>our client needs - it's good, if not - no.
>>
>> > And one more - the question was about the OS for the home. MOst
>> > hom eusers can't even properly configure Win98, so the most correct
>answer
>> > about the Server was not linux but WIndows NT.
>>
>> but if you can't do win98, wtf are you doing with nt server? windows
>> nt is kind of like windows 98. they are different enought that once
>> you get under the skin lot of stuff is different so that a competent
>> win98 user may get lost. they are alike enough that someone who can't
>> do win98 won't be able do windows nt.
>
> I meanthat most home users are like this. And it'll be anyway easier for
>them to configure NT than Linux.
IFF it is strictly a LAN. Even then there are gui configurators
for the various servers, especially samba.
[deletia]
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bad response times although 95% idle
Date: 29 Mar 1999 19:13:11 +0100
Matthias Pigulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi newsgroup,
>
> I'm running an Apache 1.3.4. server on a dedicated Linux box. The Apache
> server-status shows about five child processes running, and the system
> is 95% idle.
>
> Anyway, I got bad respones times for WWW access and terribly slow telnet
> sessions.
Are these telnet sessions slow to start or slow while running?
If slow to start but normal once running then this is "this weeks
special question" - see my answers in other theads.
Note: if this is a reverse DNS problem you may want to reconfigure
Apache so that it does not perform revers DNS on every request and/or
run a caching "named" on your web server.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: very slow networking problems
Date: 29 Mar 1999 19:09:40 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a Dell OptiPlex GXPro (200MHz) with 64MB RAM, an integrated 3Com
> vortex ethernet card, and Slackware with kernel version 2.0.33. Everything
> has worked beautifully for the past two years, but last week, mysteriously,
> telnet, http, ftp, smb, and probably all others are _very_ slow. Once
> connected, there are very long pauses. For example, in a telnet session, it
> will sometimes take minutes for anything to happen after pressing a key. When
> telnetting in, the connection is usually instantaneous, but there is a very
> long pause until the login prompt appears.
I'm doing a special this week on this question. For the last few
years its appeared a few times a week. Recently it's a few times a
day. In responsie to this I'm going to try to flame everyone who asks
it this week.
I find it especially offensive when this question is posted via
Dejanews. Dejanews users cannot pretend that they don't know about
Dejanews.
Reverse DNS queries are timing out. Fix your broken DNS config or
your routing config or simply list all machines everything in
/etc/hosts.
For further details see the last few hundred instances of this question.
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From: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with ICQ and IP Masquerading
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:20:07 +0800
I'm having trouble running ICQ through a debian SLINK 2.1 masquerading
server.
Everything is working fine except "Chat" and "File Transfer" within ICQ.
I can relay messages fine but I get the error message "Cannot establish a
direct connection to the user" when trying to chat or transfer files.
I have added the following line to my startup file in /etc/init.d directory:
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
# *** ICQ ***
ipautofw -A -r tcp 2000 2030 -h 192.168.0.1
ipautofw -A -r tcp 2091 3020 -h 192.168.0.9
but this doesn't seem to work.
Need help - any ideas ?
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From: Eric Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Peculiar behavior of usernet on RedHat 5.1
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 02:52:50 -0500
Go check RedHat's support site. I'm pretty sure there's an updated RPM
for usernet that corrects this problem.
HTH,
Eric
"Peter R. Paluzzi" wrote:
>
> Perhaps someone can explain what I am observing with the usernet utility
> undre RedHat 5.1.
>
> I am using usernet to allow any user to start up a ppp session. In the
> past everything worked well and the usernet window would appear with the
> indicator changing from red to yellow to green as the connection
> progressed.
>
> However recently, when I bring up usernet and start a ppp session, the
> indicator goes from red to yellow and never changes to green--yet the
> conection is made and everything appears to be working.
>
> This behavior only occurs when usernet is started from a user account.
> The indicator never turns green regardless of whatever ISP I am using.
>
> Oddly enough, the behavior doesn't appear when I run usernet as root.
> The indicator goes from red to yellow to green as I would expect.
>
> Is this a setup or configuration problem? I noticed that usernet uses a
> system service called netreport to get status information but never had
> enough time to feret out what is really going on.
>
> Can anyone give me a clue as to what is happening?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Pete Paluzzi
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