Linux-Networking Digest #804, Volume #10 Fri, 9 Apr 99 22:13:59 EDT
Contents:
DIAL UP server (xavier cable)
Re: smbmount (was: PPP Auto-Dialer) (Carles Arjona)
Re: 286 diskless computers like terminals on linux ("Danny Bishop")
Fujitsu LB2 56k Modem (Claudiu TOMA)
Re: Duplicate IPs PLUS duplicate MAC addresses, has this been done ? (Sven Holz)
Re: firewalls (ie: fwtk) vs. Ip Masquerading... ("Dave Borja")
RH5.2, Solaris and NFS (Marv Nachatelo)
Re: Linux and PCI Bridge Chipset ("D. C. Sessions")
Re: DNS IP Question (Ham Radio OP)
Need Help with @ Home Cable modem setup on RH5.2 (Michael Tin)
WWW logging -- How to become a cyber-snoop? ("Lester Godwin")
Re: @home (Simon Pallister)
Re: Help: The Incredible Disappearing Samba Server ("David R. Christianson")
Making Samba 2.0.3 work in an NT PDC network-Help! ("Tim Gibson")
Re: named forwarding-only (Carles Arjona)
kernel v 2.2.5 and networking on cable modem ("Delta iii")
Re: sendto: Network is unreachable...please help! (Clifford Kite)
Re: @home & email... (Dima Pasechnik)
Re: Kingston EtheRx Adapter Drivers (Ham Radio OP)
Re: @home ("D. C. Sessions")
Bandwidth utilization? (Jack Twilley)
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From: xavier cable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DIAL UP server
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:03:34 +0200
Hello all :)
I have since 2 months a cable modem connection and my poor analogic
modem is so alone :)
So I would like to make a dial up server with this modem and my cable
connection so i can go to the internet through it and "me by ISP" :)
Could someone help me about that ?
thx a lot
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From: Carles Arjona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount (was: PPP Auto-Dialer)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:13:17 +0200
Stephane POMATTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've got a local network with Win98 clients. I'm using RH 5. 2 to add a
<>
> PS : Oh, something else... Is there any way to mount a SMB volume
> instead of using smbclient command ?
smbmount //server/service /mountpoint
(Install the smbfs-2.0.1-4.i386.rpm package from RH5.2)
Regards.
PS.: news:comp.protocols.smb is the main newsgroup for samba questions.
Carles Arjona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Danny Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 286 diskless computers like terminals on linux
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:51:17 -0500
Perhaps this is too easy, but why not run a good DOS terminal emulator. My
guess is that you'll have poor performance trying to run X on a 286 anyway.
And as I remember, a 286 -- that's not heavily loaded -- runs a nice DOS
teminal app exceptionally well. I can't remember which freeware terminal
app I ran on mine back in the late 80s, but we dialed into our college shell
accounts on the thing and it acted like a regular terminal on the ethernet.
Just my two cents.
Danny
Jacques THOMAS wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I have a network with some 286 (1Meg VGA Card) diskless / ethernet card.
>>
>> How can I make this computers, terminals (X terminals if possible) on a
>> Linux box?
>
>I know it is not free software, but I suggest you have a look at :
> http://www.qnx.com
>
>Their demo is worth giving it a try : you load an OS + browser + drivers
>from a single floppy.
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From: Claudiu TOMA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fujitsu LB2 56k Modem
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:55:40 -0600
I can't see my Fujitsu LB2 56k Fax/Voice Modem under Linux.
I recompiled the kernel with serial support, I can't see the modem .
It's like:
$ dmesg | grep tty
/dev/tty00 [irq = 4] 0x03f8
That's COM1, but I have the modem configured on COM2 under Windows 98,
and works fine.
Also, I check RedHat for a list of Linux-compatible modems... my modem
didn't appear as a WinModem, but I saw other Fujitsu LifeBook in the
C-series (mine is C340), having WinModems.
Should I conclude that my modem is a WinModem? or should I try to
configure my BIOS?
What else can I do?
Please reply at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanx!
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From: Sven Holz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Duplicate IPs PLUS duplicate MAC addresses, has this been done ?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:25:56 +0200
> I'd like to know how it is that each machine has the same MAC address? I
> thought that they were supposed to ALL be unique?
>
Hmmm, i think it is possible because just al little part of the MAC is
the real Address because the other part shows the producer of the card.
I also knew about cards where you can manipulate the MAC (interesting in
real big Networks with cards from the same producer)
c ya
xylus
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From: "Dave Borja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: firewalls (ie: fwtk) vs. Ip Masquerading...
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:08:20 -0700
This is interesting stuff. I've used a proxy server before (I'm an NT
defector, coming over to
the linux camp). How does IP masquerading work? If you've got only one real
IP for your
gateway, how do you route traffic back to your internal hosts? Presumably,
the internal
ip address has been clobbered with the ip address of the gateway. When stuff
comes back
you need to route it back to the actual host that's runnnig the ap. At the
transport level,
this is easy but at the network level, theres no way to figure out which
internal host should
get a reply packet. So- how does this magic work??
Thanks,
Dave
Eric wrote in message ...
>Curt wrote in message <9laP2.517$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>>Socks operates at the transport layer (TCP). Forwarding must be off to
>>accomplish a firewall.
>>IMO this can give a more secure setup. However, all clients must be
>>'sockified', with sockscaps or some other wrapper. Many clients support
>>socks already, netscape, IE, MIRC...
>
>>
>>I use socks for the network connection that is up 24/7 and IP masq when
the
>>connection is on demand.
>>
>
>
>
>2 questions come to mind - what makes you feel that the proxy server is
more
>secure? The fact that packets can not be "faked"? That they actually must
>be valid packets at the application level? I guess this helps cut off a
lot
>of spoofing and packet level attacks, but is it realistically that much
more
>secure?
>
>How do you handle UDP & ICMP packets with a proxy server? From what I
>understand, the new SOCKS server (Nec V. 5) can be configured to handle
UDP,
>but what about ICMP?
>
>
>Secondly, which is easier to configure when it comes to Dynamic IP
>addresses - either due to dial on demand, or more importantly, when a
>company renews your IP address (ie: in the case of cable modem and/or
>ADSL)....
>
>Thanks!
>
>Eric
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Marv Nachatelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: RH5.2, Solaris and NFS
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:19:19 -0400
Any help is deeply appreciated. Note, I have contacted Sun. A call
was placed to them
back in December. After investigating with the customer, the call was
closed with no
solution found.
Hardware/OS
===========
PII 450, 256MB, 8GB disk - RH 5.2 Installed
EtherExpress Pro 10/100
Sun Ultra60 - Solaris 2.6 all recommend patches
Sun ultra2 - Solaris 2.6 all recommend patches
Additional hardware was used during the discovery phase. The three
components
listed remained the same. See below.
Problem
=======
Unable to perform more than one build from a Sun client to a NFS RH
fileserver.
I am also able to cause NFS problems when building gnu products, during
the ./configure stage.
When running builds with two Sun clients to the RH server the following
different
error occurs :
SOLARIS/nfstest.o: Is a directory
/var/tmp/cc9lq.S_.s: Assembler messages:
/var/tmp/cc9lq.S_.s:20315: FATAL: Can't close SOLARIS/nfstest.o
: Is a directory
make[1]: *** [SOLARIS/nfstest.o] Error 1
make: *** [bldrel] Error 2
OR
In file included from nfsbld.c:65:
optscn.h:225: parse error at null character
In file included from nfsbld.c:68:
nfsspbld.h:878: parse error at null character
In file included from nfsbld.c:70:
Problem is consistent.
When errors occur, random files within the filesystem (directory) being
accessed
get corrupted. Null characters are randomly inserted into files.
Discovery Stage
===============
1. RH5.2 NFS server to three different HPUX 10.x, 11.x nodes. No
problems.
2. RH5.2 NFS server to two different AIX 4.2.x, 4.3.x nodes. No
problems.
3. RH 4.x NFS server to the two Sun clients. No problems.
4. Tested from Sun NFS server to HP clients. No problems.
5. Tested from Sun NFS server to AIX clients. No problems.
6. Rebuilt nfs-server-2.2beta40. NFS Failure.
7. Rebuilt nfs-server-2.2beta40 with inode numbering sequence ON. NFS
Failure.
8. Tested from a RH5.2 NFS file server at 3.1GB to Suns. NFS Failure.
9. RH5.2 NFS server to one Sun 2.6 and another OS. NFS Failure.
10. RH5.2 server to Sun client 2.6 and Sun client 2.5.1. rpc.nfsd dies.
11. Source/build issue. I attempted building cvs-1.10 from two Sun
clients
to two different directories on the RH5.2 server.
- NFS server not responding errors.
- One "./configure" did not complete.
- after several attempts, had to reboot RH5.2 server.
Actions Taken
=============
1. Rebuilt nfs-server-2.2beta40.
2. upgraded to kernel 2.2.5 with latest nfs-server-2.2beta40.
3. Contacted SunSolve. They had one ticket that referenced this
product. The customer closed it with mention of upgrading
Linux to 2.1.x kernel. Unable to find out who the customer is.
4. Calling for help from anybody.
Please also send any replies directly.
Marv Nachatelo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "D. C. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and PCI Bridge Chipset
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:16:34 -0700
APPANAH ravi wrote:
>
> Hi !!!
> I bought an industrial PC...The motherboard has a Intel 82430 TX
> chipset
> with a PCI-2030 PCI Bridge Chipset.
>
> I install Linux Redhat 5.2 on this PC. I have some trouble with the
> PCI Bridge.
> Network cards that have been put over the Bridge freeze the PC.
> Network card that have been put on "normal" pci slot work fine...
>
> Does the PCI Bridge chipset is supported by Linux ?
Have a look at the source code. Chances are that the detect
code uses an algorithm that stops at bridges. (PCI device
addressing across bridges is a bit more complex than on
the primary bus.) FWIW, it took M$ a while to get video and
network across a bridge right even though they had a hand
in the architecture.
Also note that for the immediate future, bridges are going to
be increasing in popularity thanks to the need to accomodate
both wide/fast PCI and older 5v stuff.
--
D. C. Sessions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ham Radio OP)
Subject: Re: DNS IP Question
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:54:36 GMT
I think I found my answer//////
With AT&T doing the reverse order for the address, I will need them to
put my in there with a ptr record. Does this sound right???
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 22:35:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ham Radio OP) wrote:
>Hello all, I am running a DNS server on my system and all is working
>great, I moved my server to a T-1 connection on someone else's
>server. All it shows on ALL outgoing connections from my server is
>the IP address. I need this to show my server name. Someone told me
>that I had to let someone else other than myself be my DNS master,.
>Somehow I don't believe this as I had no problem before. Seems to me
>that the actual owner of my address (AT&T) should just be able to add
>me to there host file or something. I know this has to be something
>little here. Can anyone give me a little help here? Thanks. Corey
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From: Michael Tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Help with @ Home Cable modem setup on RH5.2
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 21:39:57 GMT
Hi, I have a Red Hat 5.2 Alpha box setup with a 466MHz 21164PC alpha
processor.
I have been trying to setup my network for days.
I can talk and ping to my wintel machine but cant reach the outside
internet world..
I have two SMC EtherEZ cards(PCI) and they are obviously working if my
two machines are talking to each other. But for some reason, my Alpha
box wont go out side my intranet. It also takes a long time to access
the system after startup, it stops for a long while at sendmail
initilization.
I have no idea what is happening.
I think it is the setup I did during RH install. The machines have
independant IP Addresses. I have a net gear hub that runs fine when I
use two wintels but my alpha doesnt seem to communicate too well, but
just enough to talk to my other computer, on the same hub(my wintel
mentioned earlier). I used to think it was my ethernet cable but then
it wouldnt talk to my wintel in the first place. Any help is
appreciated.
I think the problem now rests with the DNS routing, I cant ping my dns
servers or my gateway.
Mike Tin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lester Godwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW logging -- How to become a cyber-snoop?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:14:07 -0500
I have been given the undesirable task of keeping track of sites that
employees are visiting during working hours. I currently have a Linux box
serving a firewall/IP Masquarading box connected to a Netopia ISDN router.
Is other software required?? Or can I use the ipfwadm or likewise to track
of visited sites??
Any help would be appreciated...
--
Lester Godwin
No private email, please, unless expressly invited.
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From: Simon Pallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:29:03 +1000
I've just got my Linux working on Cable (Big Pond Cable in Sydney, Australia)
and it works a treat.
I just use IP masquerading at the moment but plan to install Squid Proxy. This
allows peer proxying with other Big Pond Cable users (we're all friends down
here :) )
I say do it - it's better than dial-up!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The local cable company will soon offer @home cable modem connections.
>
> I have not been able to get information beyond the fact that they seem to
> discourage home networks.
>
> Has anyone successfully connected a linux box through an @home cable modem?
>
> Didier
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
--
Simon Pallister
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://kiniki.com.au
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From: "David R. Christianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Re: Help: The Incredible Disappearing Samba Server
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:14:49 GMT
David,
I had the same problem and was able to solve it by making my Samba
server the master browser, domain master and preferred master etc. then
setting Browse Master to Never and LM Announce to No in WinXX. I don't
recall at the moment exactly where in the Windows network configuration
these settings were, but this did the trick here. The fault on mine when
checking the log.nmb log was that, even though my Linux box was set for
a higher OS level, it was continuously forcing browse elections and
losing them to a Windows box which subsequently executed an LM announce
that the Samba server couldn't understand. Changing the setting in WinXX
from 'Auto' to 'No' did the trick.
--Dave C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
<snip>
>(www.ping.be/linux-and- samba ) and then managed to get the Linux box to show
> up occasionally. However, it would show up for a while on a NT 4 (SP4) box
> then disappear, or on a Win98 box for a while and again just disappear. After
> awhile I determined that the problem lies in browsing. I have figured out
> that even if the Samba server is not visible in the Network Neighborhood I
> can still type \\Linux1 (name of Samba Server) and it will pop right up. I
</snip>
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From: "Tim Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making Samba 2.0.3 work in an NT PDC network-Help!
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:26:41 GMT
I have a couple of issues with Samba existing in an NT Server PDC/BDC
environment. I hope you guys can help me out. Here's the deal:
Here's my layout:
1 Red Hat 5.2 Linux box with addresses 129.64.100.190/255.255.255.0 and
192.168.0.37/255.255.25.224 LAN and Internet respectively. BTW the 192 #
obviously made up.)
1 Windows NT Server 4.0 PDC with IP address 129.64.100.3/255.255.255.0
1 Windows NT Server 4.0 BDC with IP addresses 129.64.100.34/255.255.255.0
and 192.168.0.34/255.255.255.224
What I want to be able to do is use Linux as backup server. It will mount
all my clients' Win95 data directories and then back them up to tape. So
far all I am able to do is use it as a file server. I can't map clients. I
have set it up for Domain style security and using the PDC as a WINS server.
I have included my smb.conf file. This was generated thru the excellent
SWAT web admin. I just need to know what I should change in order to get
the Linux serer to be able ot map drives using the Netbios name only. I
can't browse the network from it either. When I query a client for servies
I get this:
[root@linux /root]# smbclient -L //ed -I 129.64.100.69
Added interface ip=192.168.0.37bcast=209.125.111.63 nmask=255.255.255.224
Added interface ip=129.64.100.190 bcast=129.64.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0
session request to //ED failed
session request to *SMBSERVER failed
This is what I get when I try to smbmount:
[root@linux /root]# smbmount //ed/c /mnt/ed/c -I 129.64.100.69 -c linux -U
tim
Password:
mount error: Invalid argument
Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
If I try just using the netbios name (//ed) then it says I must use the -I
option. How can I get it to be able to map using only Netbios names. This
is very important because I usr DHCP/WINS for IP address assignment. I also
don't want to have to type "-c linux" everytime, but the smb.conf line
"Netbios Name = Linux" doesn't seem to be doing its job.
Here is the smb.conf file.
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from UNKNOWN (192.168.0.34)
# Date: 1999/04/09 16:52:26
# Global parameters
workgroup = ROYALNT
netbios name = LINUX
server string =
interfaces = 129.64.100.37/24 129.64.100.190/24 127.0.0.1/8
security = DOMAIN
encrypt passwords = Yes
min passwd length = 0
password server = nt-server
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
time server = Yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
local master = No
dns proxy = No
wins server = 129.64.100.3
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
print ok = Yes
browseable = No
[lp]
path = /var/spool/samba
read only = No
print ok = Yes
printer name = lp
browseable = No
oplocks = No
share modes = No
[download]
path = /home/download
valid users = tim
write list = tim
read only = No
Please cc me via e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Carles Arjona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: named forwarding-only
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 01:54:38 +0200
William Grinolds wrote:
>
> I'm currently running a cacheing nameserver (named) on my Slackware Linux
<>
> I was looking a web page
> (http://personal1.iddeo.es/ret005lc/diald-win-e.html#runnamed)
<>
> Better yet, how can I make named a forwarding-only nameserver
> that does not cache anything? The web page I gave shows how to do it with
> BIND 4.x, but what is the equivalent way to do it with BIND 8.x?
1- Look for the named-bootconf.pl script into your bind-8 package (it's
/usr/doc/bind-8.1.2/named-bootconf.pl on RedHat 5.2 and
/usr/sbin/named-bootconf.pl on Debian 2.0).
2- Create a /etc/named.boot file for a forward nameserver such as
explained at the referred web page.
3- Build a /etc/named.conf from it with:
<path>/named-bootconf.pl < /etc/named.boot > /etc/named.conf
(perl must be installed)
4- Restart named:
killall -1 named
Regards.
Carles Arjona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Delta iii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel v 2.2.5 and networking on cable modem
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:41:52 -0700
hello all,
could someone help me out with kernel 2.2.5 and networking.... it detects my
3c905B but when i run my network config script It still gives me unknown
host, and host name lookup failure when ircing, ftping, etc. ( I dont use
the boot up ones, although i have tried and those dont work either.)
here is my network script.
#/bin/bash
echo -n "Starting network interfaces: "
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 24.234.4.20 up
/sbin/route add -net 24.234.0.0 netmask 255.255.224.0
/sbin/route add default gw 24.234.0.1
echo -n "cable -> eth0 "
# because i rm'd the regular network startup, start the loopback here
/sbin/ifup lo
echo "lo"
can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Derek ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: sendto: Network is unreachable...please help!
Date: 9 Apr 1999 16:50:45 -0500
MalayJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello:
: I am running pristine redhat 5.2 out of the box.
: - Using minicom to login to my PPP account over a modem line (there are no
: networking cards configured in my system)
: - Using pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 38400 & to startup the daemon
add the pppd "defaultroute" option.
: Ping to the IP address of the gateway (same as DNS server) works fine. All
: other pings fail as below. DNS seems to be working as I can type in names
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* A salute to Inspector Baynes, of the Surry Constabulary, the only
police Inspector to ever best Mr. Sherlock Holmes at his own game.
"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. */
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From: Dima Pasechnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home & email...
Date: 10 Apr 1999 03:11:21 +0200
Simon Pallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > The local cable company will soon offer @home cable modem connections.
> >
> > I have not been able to get information beyond the fact that they seem to
> > discourage home networks.
> >
[...]
Well, they sure aren't happy losing their money this way.
But with the proxy etc stuff properly set they would not be
able to detect how many different computers are actually
being connected via your computer...
(for them it would look like as if everything is originated and
sent to your computer...)
========================
I imagine the only problem might be with e-mail - the users on this
micro-network would have to use some web-based email service...
(not such a big problem with good connectivity provided by the cable,
anyway).
Please correct me if I'm wrong here...
Dmitrii
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ham Radio OP)
Subject: Re: Kingston EtheRx Adapter Drivers
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 22:51:35 GMT
I used the PCI NE2000 compat on mine without any problems.
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:01:29 -0500, Warren Buckles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get drivers for a Kingston EtheRx 40 PCI
>adapter?
>
>I need to run them under Red Hat 5.2.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Warren Buckles
>
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From: "D. C. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:34:23 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The local cable company will soon offer @home cable modem connections.
>
> I have not been able to get information beyond the fact that they seem to
> discourage home networks.
>
> Has anyone successfully connected a linux box through an @home cable modem?
Several have. It's not hard technically.
They have a good reason for discouraging home networks: most
LoseBlows users are totally clueless and would tend to just
hang the cable modem on the home Ethernet backbone and blithely
share everything (which is the Redmond default after all.)
Which would leave their local net wide open on the cable net,
and generate a bunch of extra traffic to boot.
They also have a bad reason: they want to move you to their
@work service, which costs an order of magnitude more. Check
out their AUP, which forbids commercial use of any sort (eg
telecommuting) and forbids connecting any kind of server
(so your shared printer is a no-no.)
--
D. C. Sessions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Bandwidth utilization?
From: Jack Twilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:03:49 GMT
I'm thinking of colocating a Linux box at an ISP, and I was wondering
if anyone here knew how to meter the bandwidth utilization.
I'll be billed a set fee plus a certain cost per kilobyte per second,
normalized over the month. So if I know how many kilobytes I have
during a particular month, I'll be able to determine how much I'll
have to pay, ahead of time. I like this idea. :-)
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking something simple with
ipchains may be in my future, but there weren't any easy examples that
I could find anywhere.
Thanks!
Jack.
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Jack Twilley
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