Linux-Networking Digest #829, Volume #10 Mon, 12 Apr 99 04:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux as router? (Jim Richardson)
Re: Cisco router help (Glenn Butcher)
2 ISA Ethernet cards (John Engel)
PPP Throughput (Toobster)
Re: Cisco router help (Luca Filipozzi)
BIND 8.x with Diald. Help! (PhilT)
Re: Stupid window insist on dialup networking (June Seek Choi)
How to autoset IP with *.dnydns.org? (Essence)
Re: Setting Up Remote Printing Problem ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
Re: Help with Linux as Client on Sygate... (contains setup information to assist)
("Charles R. Thompson")
Need help with PPP... ("Jerry Wen")
Re: PPP script for earthlink ISP server (Mike)
Re: Samba (smbd) wont load (Pedro Garrett)
Re: Redhat proxy, Netware 4.11 intranet, pickup e-mail from outside ISP (Johannes
Kremsner)
DNS Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Linux as router?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 05:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:38:05 GMT,
Meade, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>I've got a small lan, 3 or 4 windows pcs, that need to share
>one "Mediaone Express" connection. A Cisco 2500 would be nice,
>but the only thing that's available is an old 486 and Slackware
>3.2
>
>The question: Before I waste my time trying, does this machine
>realistically have enough computing power to do the job of a
>router?
>
>Specifics:
> 486 dx2-66, 12 mb ram, 540 mb hdd
> isa slots only;
> aha-1522 scsi
> nics/ dec etherworks-3 &
> amd 1500/2100t
>
>Job req'd/
> pick up an ip adr from mediaone's DHCP server and act
> as gateway for the other machines, which will all be
> using fixed addresses on 10 mbits. Firewall functionality
> a plus.
>
>So, any opinions on whether this is enough machine for the
>job?
No sweat, that box is quite capable of pegging the bandwidth to the
stops an keeping it there. More ram would be nice, but not essential.
Have you checked out the Linux Router Project ? (www.linuxrouter.org)
they have a bare bones distro for this very task.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
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From: Glenn Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cisco router help
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:05:37 -0600
Can't he plug a terminal, or PC running a terminal program, into the
console port on the back and type commands? We've got 2545s at work,
configured mostly with telnet, but we did once use the console to do
initial configuration. I just don't remember whether it needed the
password...
Glenn Butcher
Luca Filipozzi wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > I inherited a whole network system which included a Cisco 2500 router.
> > The PC's on the network are running Linux 2.0.34.
> > I want to use MRTG to monitor my the bandwidth of my leased line going
> > through the router.
> > I installed and compiled MRTG and the software needed for it, but when I try
> > to run MRTG the connection to my router gets refused.
> > I am told my router will not accept SNMP connections, which is what MRTG
> > uses.
> > I am not sure what to really do, but I think it is something to do with the
> > configuration of the router.
> > I try telenetting into my router and get asked for a password, which is one
> > thing I did not inherit.
> > Do I need to access the router to configure it to accept SNMP connections?
> > If so how do I do this, and configure it to do so?
> > Has anyone come across this problem and solved it?
> > Any help would be appreciate.
> > Thanks
> > Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, you need to telnet to your router to be able to change its config.
> Therefore, you need either to get the password or call Cisco to reset
> your router.
> --
> Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: John Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 ISA Ethernet cards
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 05:48:05 GMT
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I have 2 ISA ethernet cards that I want to configure on a Redhat 5.2
box using the 2.0.36 kernel. One card is an Intel EtherExpress card and
the other is a Linksys Ether16 card. I have run the software to disable
PNP and set the I/O address and irq's. I have both drivers compiled as
modules and my /etc/conf.modules looks like this....
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 eexpress
options -k eth0 io=0x340 irq=11
options -k eth1 io=0x300 irq=10
With this setup, only the Linksys (ne) card gets detected at boot and
not the EtherExpress (eexpress) card. I can switch it around so the
EtherExpress card is eth0 and the Linksys card is eth1. In this case,
the EtherExpress card gets detected at boot, but not the Linksys card.
So I know both cards work... I just can't get them to work together.
I've also tried to use modprobe to load the undetected card, but
modprobe returns without any messages. Any ideas?
... John
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From: Toobster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,linux.act.ppp
Subject: PPP Throughput
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 05:48:47 GMT
I've got my Linux box running as a PPP server using a null modem connection
with a Win 3.1 box (don't ask me why, I just need to) running Slackware
Linux 2.0.35 and pppd 2.2. Everything works fine, but my throughput is
very low. The connection baud rate is 57600, but I'm getting throughput on
box to box FTP transfers of between 5k bits and 10k bits per second. Here
is a slice of the debug log:
ppp: write frame, count = 12
FF 03 C0 21 09 27 00 08 ...!.'..
01 6F 9F AA .o..
ppp_dev_xmit_lower: fcs is bb7d
ppp_dev_xmit: writing 15 chars
ppp_tty_read: called buf=08064290 nr=1504
ppp_tty_read: no data (EAGAIN)
ppp: receive buffer, count = 20
7E 23 C0 21 7D 2A 27 7D ~#.!}*'}
20 7D 28 7D 20 7D 20 7D }(} } }
20 F0 40 7E .@~
ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = cdd1
keyboard error
It looks like I'm getting retries and a bad fcs error. I don't know what
fcs is.
I'm also getting a strange keyboard error. This doesn't appear in the log
unless I'm running PPP. Any ideas?
Thanks,
- lt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Subject: Re: Cisco router help
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:58:08 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Can't he plug a terminal, or PC running a terminal program, into the
> console port on the back and type commands? We've got 2545s at work,
> configured mostly with telnet, but we did once use the console to do
> initial configuration. I just don't remember whether it needed the
> password...
you can set up passwords on the terminal as well
somebody emailed this to me
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/22.html
how to reset the password ...
haven't checked it out... looks promising, though
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PhilT)
Subject: BIND 8.x with Diald. Help!
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:37:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have configured a Linux box to use BIND 8.x, Diald and Squid. They
work fine. It's just that during the startup of the services BIND
always cause Diald to dial out. What have I done wrong?
Is there something that I need to set to BIND to make it stop this?
This only happens the first time the Linux box starts up after which
it will not have any problem for the rest of the day.
=====
PhilT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (June Seek Choi)
Subject: Re: Stupid window insist on dialup networking
Date: 12 Apr 1999 00:48:14 -0500
Thanks!!
It works right off!!!
June
Kevin Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (June Seek Choi)
:wrote:
: >
: >Hi-
: >
: >I just finish setting up Linux server with IP masq thanks to A LOT OF HELP
: >FROM THIS NEWSGROUP. THANKS TO ALL OF THEM!!!
: >
: >I have a window95 machine that used to run dialup networking by itself.
: >Now it's hooked up to the server but everytime I launch network-related
: >program such as netscape or telnet dialup networking pops up. How can I
: >"tell" it that now it's hooked up to the network.
:
: You have to turn off demand dialling on the Windows box. If you have a
: current Windows winsock, there'll be a checkbox in the "Internet" applet in
: your Control Panel.
:
: Then you need to set up a gateway address so your Windows box will use
: the LAN connection to the Linux box. Control Panel / Networking / Adapters ->
: your LAN card / TCP/IP settings, gateway.
:
: You do NOT have to delete or even disable dial-up networking; just turn off
: demand-dialing and your apps will find and use the Linux box due to the
: default gateway you defined above. (And if for any reason you still want to
: use the modem on the Windows box instead of going through the network, you can
: still dial out manually. That will temporarily override your default gateway
: and your apps will find the local modem.)
:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Essence)
Subject: How to autoset IP with *.dnydns.org?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:26:53 GMT
Hi,
I setup a virtual domain with dyndns.org. They have a simple script
that loads lynx and automatically updates a dynamic IP. You have to
enter the IP manually though.
What's the easiest way to have this done automatically with the DHCP
client gets a new IP?
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Remote Printing Problem
Date: 12 Apr 1999 06:30:06 GMT
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have two linux boxes connected via ppp. One of my machines
: only has a hercules mono card and I haven't been able to find
: a driver for it so I can't user the normal Red Hat 5.1 graphical
: install programs. I have to install everything through the
: bash shell.
: I want to setup remote printing on this machine to print to
: the linux-xwindows machine. How to I do the setup manually?
: I also downloaded a remote printing package which includes
: rlpr. When I set it up it wants to know the name of the remote
: printer on my linux-xwindows machine. I don't how to set up a
: name for it and also set up the proper permissions.
: Mike
The Printing-HOWTO and the LPD manual available at www.freebsd.org have
nice examples of how to do these things.
--
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Jeremy Buchmann "Those who trade freedom for safety deserve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
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From: "Charles R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Linux as Client on Sygate... (contains setup information to
assist)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:42:35 GMT
>> I tried the fix you suggest earlier in hopes that it would do
>> the job. I added the DNS servers for my ISP to the list of
>> resolvers on the Linux but it didn't make a difference.
Adding
>> external servers to the hosts file works, so it's pretty
obvious
>> Linux isn't recognizing 192.168.0.1 as the DNS, or is not
>> passing the info through SyGate.
>>
>I'm surprised this didn't work. I have a similar setup (SyGate
3.0
>build 517 on NT40sp4) and my Linux box could ping outside my
internal
>network, but couldn't resolve names. I left my SyGate box
>(192.168.0.11) as the primary DNS, but added the 2 DNS servers
of my ISP
>on the Linux box and everything started working. I don't know
why Linux
>required me to do this. My Win98 client just had the Sygate
box as the
>only DNS entry and it worked fine.
Got it. Had Sygate 2.0 on the last 2 megs of evaluation.
Upgraded to 3.0, got Linux working online and now have 27 meg
left before registration due.
Any idea when 4.0 with an extra 25 meg comes out? ;)
Thanks
CT
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From: "Jerry Wen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with PPP...
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:12:11 -0700
Hello.
I need assistance setting up PPP. I have accomplished this before, but I
broke it after I installed kernel 2.2.5. I don't know where I went wrong; I
did not make any changes to PPP configurations when I upgraded from 2.0.36
to 2.2.5.
I brought SuSE 6.0 about 1 1/2 weeks ago. It came with kernel version
2.0.36. I setup the PPP configurations, and was able to connect to my local
ISP. From there on I downloaded the latest kernel, and went through the
usual upgrading process. The new kernel booted up fine, and I spent some
time reconfiguring the kernel to work with my SCSI and NT partitions.
Afterwards I tried to log on the net with Linux 2.2.5, and it wouldn't work.
I can dial out and connect with my ISP, but the PPP wouldn't route correctly
when I try to connect outside servers. I got PPP working before, so I went
thru the how-to again. The problem area is described in section 14 and 18.4
of the PPP how-to. I can ping my own computer, but not the ISP DNS. The
default route is not set, when I check the "route -n" command.
Like I said earlier, I got PPP working before. Can someone help me out on
fixing this thing? I don't know what went wrong... =(
Thank you!!!
Jerry Wen
PS: Please CC me your reply; my news reader won't alert me to responses to
my post.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: PPP script for earthlink ISP server
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:06:19 GMT
You don't say what distro you're using. I cheated and used
control-panel in RedHat to set up PPP and now I connnect with usernet.
Earthlink doesn't require anything special just the standard login
script. I did do it by hand the first time just to see if I could
using ppp-on and ppp-off, if you'd like email me with the specifics of
what your problem is (or post here) and I'll see if I can help. I will
be going to Puerto Rico for a week on the 13th so it may be awhile
before I can get back to you.
mike
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:36:16 -0500, jongmook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does anybody have a working chat script for Earthlink ISP server ?.
>I am struggling to get it working.
>
>Thanks
>Jongmook
>
>
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From: Pedro Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba (smbd) wont load
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:32:29 +0000
Glenn Butcher wrote:
>
> inetd is probably already listening on the smbd port. You'll need to
> comment out the netbios-* lines in inetd.conf, then you can run smbd and
> nmbd in your boot scripts.
>
> Glenn Butcher
>
That did the trick! Thanks a bunch.
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:38:10 +0200
From: Johannes Kremsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat proxy, Netware 4.11 intranet, pickup e-mail from outside ISP
HiVizDiver wrote:
>
> 1. Install a Linux box on the LAN
> 2. Have the Linux box act as a dial-out server
> 3. Contact the ISP through PPP
pppd ( part of a linux-distribution like redhat or suse )
> 4. Pickup e-mail from the ISP for all people who have received it since
> the last time the server checked (maybe set this value at every 10 minutes?)
i.e. fetchmail ( part of a linux-dis..... ). starting the
connections and mail download via crontab every x minutes
> 5. Distribute the e-mail to the Novell server (I don't want to upgrade
> to Netware 5.0 to get the TCPIP connectivity, even though it might make this
> easier - no money available for this project).
change from ms postoffice to mercury ( freeware smtp-,
pop3-server for netware since nw 3.11 - full support for nw nds
... ). forward any mail via smtp-route from your linux-box to the
nw-server .
> 6. Pickup any external e-mail that people have sent out (which will
> really be to the Novell server) and queue it for delivery on the next
> connect.
configure pegasus to use the linux-box as a smtp-mailer. so every
external e-mail will automatically be stored on the linux-box
until delivery is possible.
> 6. Do this at a set interval, say about every 10 minutes.
cronjob
> 7. Do this for little to no money. (I have all the hardware I think I
> need.)
>
the only additional sw you need is pegasus and that�s freeware.
pegasus can receive smtp-mails directly ( just enable ip on your
nw-server by binding an ip-address to your nic an load tcpip ).
allow only smtp- and pop-ports to be delivered by your
ppp-connection ( ipchains ) to prevent addional traffic .
sers,
johannes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DNS Problem
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 05:42:04 GMT
Hi, Ive got RedHat 5.0 Linux set up as my Primary DNS server and Mail server
too. The server does IP Masquerading too.We have currently 50+ user accessing
the different services from this machine. The secondary Name server is
located at my ISP connected via 64 Kbps Lease line. The setup was workin fine
till last week when the users started gettin a very slow telnet and mail
response from this server. After tracing I found that there was some problem
with the Primary name server(i.e. my linux box) as all the name resolution
was going to the Secondary name server located at my ISP. Only those clients
who has an entry in the /etc/hosts file seems to be connecting well.
When I do a nslookup, I get :
Can't find server name for address 'my ip address': No information
default server: 'My isp's domain name'
I tried restarting named and also checked my scripts. But everything seems
fine.Can anybody figure out the probalem and respond . Any help is highly
appreciated.
Thanx
SunilN
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