Linux-Networking Digest #865, Volume #10 Thu, 15 Apr 99 06:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Intel NetportExpress Pro Print Server drivers for linux ("Tim Underwood")
Drivers for the HP 882C Inkjet Printer ("Tim Underwood")
Re: Can't See Samba Server on network (Jon Sundquist)
Re: Linux client for Microsoft Proxy ? (Rene Bauer)
Re: Help!! High packet collisions!! (Randy Sandberg)
Re: How do I use DHCP with a PPP connection? (Malcolm Ferguson)
Which way perform better? ("YC GUO")
problems with pppd ("Ernesto Miralles")
Re: SUSE6.0 @ Pcmcia modem (Adam reith)
why so many people want to install 2 network card? ("YC GUO")
KDE kppp 1.1 ("Tony Price")
Re: IP masquerading (Richard Steiner)
Re: Home Network Help (RE) (Michael Picco)
Re: Can't See Samba Server on network (Dana Booth)
Re: NT faster than Linux? (Paul Ashton)
Re: 3 com 3c905b TX network card problems... (Stephen Carville)
Re: NFS server crash on all our linux boxes (Oliver Stahlhut)
Re: NFS server crash on all our linux boxes (Oliver Stahlhut)
Re: Performance comparison of nt vs linux (Mark Andal)
Re: diald: connect doesn't (Mike Jagdis)
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From: "Tim Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel NetportExpress Pro Print Server drivers for linux
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:32:28 -0500
Does anyone know if there are any NetportExpress Pro Printer Server drivers
for linux? Or how to get it working without Intel's drivers? I've D/L'ed
the unix stuff from Intel, but they don't have a version for linux, and the
versions they do have won't work on linux (most binaries aren't compatible,
one locks up, the others don't see the print server).
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From: "Tim Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Drivers for the HP 882C Inkjet Printer
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:29:43 -0500
Any idea where to get drivers for the HP 882C Inkjet for RH 5.2?
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:56:31 +0000
From: Jon Sundquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Can't See Samba Server on network
Tracy Johns wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Please forgive me if this has been covered in this group. I am
> reluctant to post this since this type of problem seems to be discussed
> quite frequently. This particular problem seems to be an exception and I
> have only found one message related to this (exact) problem, but there
> was no reply.
>
> Problem:
> I can not see the server in the network neighborhood. I am running a
> small network with 4 computers including the server. Here is the setup:
>
> 3 client stations - 2 running Win/98, 1 running Win/95
> Linux server kernel 2.0.34
> Samba version 1.9.18p7
> Class "A" network
> All (Windows) computers have the server name/address resolution
> setup in the LMHOSTS file.
> All Win/98 machines have plain text passwords enabled - (default on
> '95)
> I can "find" the server if I do a search for the computer.
> All *clients* can be "seen" in the network neighborhood.
> All clients and server can be reached by "ping"
Simple question: Is your "WORKGROUP =" name in your [global] section
the same as the DOMAIN name in your windows networking logon box? If
not, try that. You set your DOMAIN name by going controlpanel ->
networking, then click on "Client for Microsoft Networks" then
properties.
HTH
Jon Sundquist
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:57:24 +0200
From: Rene Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux client for Microsoft Proxy ?
Franky wrote:
>
> Is there by any change a way to connect from a Laptop running linux to
> internet via a Microsoft Proxy 2.0 Server to the Internet ?
>
> Please help.......
Well, usally you would just tell your Internet-Browser what Proxy it
should use for the internet connection. For instance in Netscape this is
done by inserting the IP-Address and port-number of your MS-Proxy under
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies->Manual Proxy Config for HTTP and
FTP.
Ciao,
ren
--
Rene Bauer
TESIS SYSware GmbH, Munich (Germany)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +49 (0)89 747377-26
Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver!
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From: Randy Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help!! High packet collisions!!
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:55:29 -0700
Almer. S. Tigelaar. wrote:
>
> Hai,
>
> RealTek 8029 clones work fine with me! I have the same Setup as you.
> It's recommended to set both Full Duplex and Flow Control to 'Enabled' with
> the rset8029 util
> (Simply put in a dos boot disk and then the driver disk and run
> rset8029.exe)
>
> Also it's best to use the ne2k-pci kernel module. (i don't know if you are
> using ne or ne2k-pci...)
>
> If that does not help then your HUB is most likely the problem. not the
> cards.
> I use a compex 8-port 10mbit hub.
>
> Almer. S. Tigelaar.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ahhhhhh...Never, Never, connect to a "hub" in a Full-Duplex mode. All
you'll get are lots of collisions. Hubs only work at Half-Duplex. Only
layer 2 and above switches can be connected to via Full-Duplex. If one
device has Full-Duplex on and the other has it off...BAD NEWS!!! All
you'll get are lots of collisions. Half-Duplex is ALWAYS used to connect
to a standard hub at 10Mb or 100Mb.
--
Randy Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem
in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
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From: Malcolm Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,redhat.networking.general,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: How do I use DHCP with a PPP connection?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:01:54 +0000
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From: "YC GUO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which way perform better?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:37:33 -0500
HI:
Which way network performs better?
compiling network driver into kernel or load network driver as modules
in conf.modules?
Thanks
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From: "Ernesto Miralles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with pppd
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:28:32 +0200
My linux box connect with pppd and tell me that:
primary DNS : 0.0.0.0
secondary DNS:0.0.0.0
the netscape program run but i think that is very slow, in windows my
conexion is more more fast.
what can i do?
I try with the wvdial and I can connect with my server but don't resolve
adresses. in my resolv.conf i have:
servername arrakis.es
nameserver 195.5.64.2
nameserver 195.5.64.6
what is wrong?
thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam reith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.comp.tkdesk,comp.os.linux,de.alt.comp.kde,nl.comp.os.linux,rainbow.mailing-lists.linux.vger.ppp
Subject: Re: SUSE6.0 @ Pcmcia modem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:05:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:21:55 +0100, Jos Zwanenburg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have just installed SuSE Linux on my notebook.
>> I'd like to know if it's possible to use a pcmcia modem
>> under linux. Does anybody know how to do this?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Jos van Riswick
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
Yes it is possible, but you shold compile support for PCMCIA
periopherals into your kernel (2.0.36, i suppose)
c'ya
Felice,
Napoli - Italia
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From: "YC GUO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: why so many people want to install 2 network card?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:46:55 -0500
HI:
Besides learning reason, does installing 2 network card really increase
the network performance?
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From: "Tony Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE kppp 1.1
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:50:12 -0500
I am new to Linux and I am running KDE 1.1 on Redhat 5.0. I can connect
manually to my ISP fine through Minicom. The PPP connection runs Netscape
with no problems. My question has to do with KDE's kppp. Sometimes it
connects as it should and sometimes it doesn't. It seems the script stalls
or doesn't send all the strings. My ISP connects via a script. I have
heard kppp is somewhat unstable. Any advice? And is there any other auto
dialers available?
Thanks for the info
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.os2.networking.misc
Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 02:39:48 -0500
Here in comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake unto us, saying:
>I'm trying to set up a linux box for firewall network server.
You might want to make sure that you're not running any unwanted stuff
on the firewall box. Check out /etc/inetd.conf and also use linuxconf
to do a quick check for things that might be started in each, and then
remove the stuff you don't want.
You might also want to locate a copy of nmap or something to do a port
scan to verify what ports are exposed.
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_doc.html
>I have 3 PCs (OS/2, Win98) on my home LAN. I installed Red Hat
>Linux 5.2 on an old P90 PC, and hooked it up to my home LAN.
>Network works well. I attached a modem to the linux box, and
>made PPP connection to Internet, to experiment IP masquerading.
>A dynamic IP addr is assigned to the PPP connection. PPP
>connection was fine, as the linux box could access internet.
>I want other PCs on the net can share the internet access,
>but IP masquerading didn't work. I tried to follow a doc:
>mini-HOWTO of IP-Masquerade.
>
>Could anyone show me IP masquerading with some specific examples?
This site is a treasure trove of IP Masquerading resources:
http://www.tor.shaw.wave.ca/~ambrose/
I could send you my own set of rules in a few days -- right now I have
the monitor on my second IntelliStation (still doing some initial OS
installation stuff), and I won't have time to get it back to the 486
until sometime Friday or Saturday.
>Oh, one more question: Why do I fail ftp login to OS/2 machine,
>while I can telnet to OS/2? (OS/2 Warp 4) I have invalid password
>error from ftp login. I thought password should be the same between
>telnet and ftp logins. What did I miss?
OS/2's FTP server uses this file:
X:\MPTN\ETC\TRUSERS (where X: is your boot drive letter)
to control FTP logins and access. See the "TCP/IP Readme" file that
comes in Warp 4 as X:\TCPIP\HELP\README.INF for information about the
syntax.
Here is the example from the TCP/IP Readme (the userid in the example
is "test" and the password is "info"):
user: test info
rd: e:\public f:\socks g:\mail
wr: d:\newinfo
default: e:\public
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
"Wesley Crusher? Great idea. Turn it on!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Picco)
Subject: Re: Home Network Help (RE)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:16:09 GMT
This comes close to the problem I'm having, but the differences are
minor. Currently I have two systems running RedHat 5.2 with a network
card in each machine. I can ping the local host on each machine, but
the machines can't ping each other. Checking each system with
ifconfig -a
indicates that all seems to be working well.
1) Does one machine need to be set up as a server? Presently I can
get two machines talking nicely via the network (ethernet cards
connected to a 5-port hub) when running Windoze 95. So the hardware
seems to be just fine.
2) I'm not connecting this network to the outside world at all. At
best it will be working with 3 machines when all is said and done.
The IP addresses I've given are made up ( 111.111.111.110 &
111.111.111.112) with netmasks for each of 255.255.255.0.
3) It seems like I've gotten very close, but there's something still
not clicking. Each machine has eth0 as it's card and nothing else.
Thanks
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From: Dana Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't See Samba Server on network
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:12:35 GMT
In comp.protocols.smb Tracy Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TJ: Problem:
TJ: I can not see the server in the network neighborhood. I am running a
TJ: small network with 4 computers including the server. Here is the setup:
Sounds like it might be a browsing problem of some sort? Try telling Samba
to win a master browser election on the LAN, and see what happens.
--
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Dana Booth <dana[at]oz.net>
Tacoma, Wash., USA
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From: Paul Ashton <none@[127.1]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NT faster than Linux?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:53:39 +0100
Laurie Brown wrote:
>
> I received this pointer today. Comments anyone?
>
> http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
It's been discussed to death on linuxtoday, lwn and slashdot, and, I'd
guess on *.advocacy.
IMO, it is utterly bogus. For that kind of performance you don't go out
and buy a box and see what OS runs best on it. You say "I have a budget
of $100000, what will that buy me on Linux, NT, Solaris, etc.?" Of course
on NT, the first $50000 will buy you the client licences...
Paul
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 com 3c905b TX network card problems...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:23:55 -0700
ryan wrote:
>
> i am running 2 linux machine both have 3c905b tx's. they work great. I am
> running them at 100. i have sucsessfully run them under the 2.0.36 kernel
> and the new 2.2 kernels. I am retively new to linux. but if you have any
> more questions i will try to help.
Really? How did you get it to run at 100 Mbps? I have a Dell at work with
a 3c905B built in and I have never got it to work faster than 10.
--
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================================
It's all right to have geniuses build systems for use by idiots, but
the path from laboratory to marketplace needs to go through the
proving ground of prudent engineering.
Peter Coffee
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From: Oliver Stahlhut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS server crash on all our linux boxes
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:51:44 +0200
Craig J Copi wrote:
>
> If you are upgrading a linux-2.0 distribution up to linux-2.2 by yourself and
> aren't keeping track of the problems/fixes on your own then what exactly were
> you expecting to happen? It is a well known problem that linux-2.2 nfs does
> not play with with other OS's. HJ Lu has released a new version of knfs that
> contains a patch against 2.2.5 to fix most (all?) of these problems.
>
> Your best bet is to wait for the distributions to release 2.2 based versions.
> If they don't work after that then you can complain to them about it.
>
> --
> Craig J Copi | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Case Western Reserve University | http://erebus.phys.cwru.edu/~copi/
> Department of Physics | (216) 368-8831
All the systems I upgraded from a 2.0 distrib were of course patched
with the latest required or recommended program updates etc. Linux NFS
was never a problem - It works perfectly o.k. (even with most of the
2.1.x kernels). I have been talking about Linux NFSD. And especially
about the Linux Universal-NFSD (not the kernel NFSD) running on
multiprocessor machines. The U-NFSD (for example nfs-server-2.2beta40)
crashes regularly and I keep track of that with a watchdog. The Kernel
NFSD was up till 2.2.5 never in a state to be used in production.
Kernel 2.0/1.x and mutliprocessor machines have been available for
almost 2 years now and did their job well in our cluster. Except
NFS-serving. Once NFSD (doesn't matter which one, UNFSD or KNFSD) is
stable, Linux can be used for any serious application. I am not
complaining at all - I am just responsible for the functionality of very
expensive workplaces and thought I'd be a good idea to tell people what
works and what not.
Oliver
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Institut f�r Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik
und Informationsverarbeitung (TNT)
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From: Oliver Stahlhut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS server crash on all our linux boxes
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:58:58 +0200
Sebastien Boving wrote:
>
> Oliver Stahlhut wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> >Hi there!
> >
> >This mail won't help you, too ... but i would like to state that all
> >that you have written is absolutely correct. Same setup & same
> >environment here (Linux, SGI, SUN, Windoze), but with SuSE 5.x and 6. I
> >have been describing the problems for a long time in this group (and
> >others).
> >
> >To draw a conclusion: NFSD-service on Linux doesn't work reliable and I
> >would never use it in a production environment. That's what I experience
> >and have been told by official Linux-support! ... Multiprocessor
> >machines cause the most problems. I use a watchdog to restart the
> >nfsservers when they hang.
>
> how did you implement this?
>
That's a very simple script called by cron every 5 min. or so. All our
exported partitions have a common name say : /phys/disk_xyz/... The
whole tree is exported.
First I call a "mount -o ro -t nfs /phys/disk_xyz /root/mnt" and send it
to bg.
After a "sleep 10" I check if the mount-call is still active (that means
one of rpc.nfsd/rpc.mountd hangs). If it's still active I restart the
server, otherwise I umount /root/mnt.
This is for the universal nfsd. The "watchdog" works fine. With 25 Linux
machines (most of them are exporting their user's home-dir) I get about
5 restarts a week.
Oliver
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Oliver Stahlhut - Universitaet Hannover
Institut f�r Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik
und Informationsverarbeitung (TNT)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/~stahlhut/
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From: Mark Andal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Performance comparison of nt vs linux
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:57:19 -0400
William Evans wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this, and are there any comments. ? (my comments are
> included below)
>
> Seems like the MS marketing machine has gone into action against linux.
>
> Mindcraft, Inc. conducted the performance tests described in this report
> between March 10 and March 13, 1999.
> Microsoft Corporation sponsored the testing reported
> herein.
>
> http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
>
> What is really noticable from this report, is there are no
> price/performance charts here. If some one has the time it would be
> usefull to do this comparison. No guesses as to who would win here
> though.
>
> 3700 requests per second is probably the level of activity you would see
> in a 10,000 user intranet web server. 20 hits per user per minute.
> The licensing for an intranet server with this number of users would
> probably cost you over 500,000 dollars in client access license fees.
> Though I have not had time to verify this, if some one else wants to
> verify this please do.
>
> William
I'd also go to linuxtoday.com plenty of disccussion on the validity of
those tests.
I'm no expert on it. And I can't quote anything verbatim but go to the
sites and read it for yourself.
Mark Andal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: diald: connect doesn't
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:01:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Edwards wrote:
>Check your IP addresses in your diald.conf file. They should be
>127.0.0.3 for local and 127.0.0.3 for remote.
WARNING: This no longer works with 2.2.x kernels. Now 127 addresses
can *only* be sent on interfaces marked as loopback - which basically
means lo since the loopback flag is not changable. I have not found
this change documented anywhere :-(.
Mike
--
A train stops at a train station, a bus stops at a bus station.
On my desk I have a work station...
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