Linux-Networking Digest #888, Volume #10 Fri, 16 Apr 99 23:14:16 EDT
Contents:
DHCP client questions (Mark Cooperstein)
Re: How to do secure X11: NT Workstation SP4 (SecureCRT v2.4, Exceed (Dave Philips)
Re: Network cards info please (Peter Pawlowski)
error? message when booting ("Bill Rippetoe")
Re: .htaccess's question (Jim Roberts)
Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5 ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Modem will not dial second time (Clifford Kite)
Re: Many Questions !!.... ("David K. Means")
Re: PPP problems dialing up (Bill Unruh)
Re: How do I find out why my IP aliases don't work (Brian McCauley)
Re: Samba-network drives read only (matt)
Re: Which way perform better? (Phil DeBecker)
Re: Freenet and ppp (Clifford Kite)
Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5 (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Proxy/MASQ = bad FTP? (Evaluation Copy)
proftpd help ("Ray")
Re: eth0: re-entering interrupt handler ("Curt")
Re: Samba with kernel 2.2.3 ("Prutser")
Re: Modem connect speed with PPP (William Park)
Re: Ethernet with CRYSTAL CS8900 chip (Russell Nelson)
PPP monitoring program (Mark Powell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: DHCP client questions
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:19:29 GMT
I am shamefully ignorant about DHCP and am having problems. I have kernel
2.2.3. Previously, I used static IP and /etc/hosts. All worked just fine.
Now, I have a Cisco ISDN router which is providing DHCP server services. My
Windows PC's can get a DHCP IP/lease. They also get DNS servers from DHCP as
well as gateway IP. Linux, however, gets squat! When I try bring up eth0, I
get the following messages in /var/log/messages:
Apr 16 18:23:01 frodo dhcpcd[1118]: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig):
Cannot assign requested address
Now, I've been using netcfg under X to configure my network. For the eth0
device, I've specifed the protocol to be dhcp, and I've given the host name to
be 'frodo'. Under the 'routing' tab, I've enabled IPV4 and that's all.
So, what's going on? Do I need additional kernel support, or perhaps some
other piece of software?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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From: Dave Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to do secure X11: NT Workstation SP4 (SecureCRT v2.4, Exceed
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:51:30 -0400
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, tester wrote:
| Topic sums up the configuration..
| I SSH (3DES encryption) into the Linux box with SecureCRT 2.4b1, and export
| DISPLAY to my NT Workstation.
|
| Now do I make X11 *secure*?
ssh is as secure as most people need. you also should not have to export
the display as ssh can handle forwarding of X11 conections as long as
you've got an X-server running on the NT side..
dave
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From: Peter Pawlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Network cards info please
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:21:33 -0500
I got a D-Link 220P for 20 dollars. It comes with DOS software that disables
PNP and shows you the hardware based irq and io information. Get the io, go
into linux and type:
modprobe ne io=0x***
***, the number from the program.
You're network card should work, just as it did for me.
Peter Pawlowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does the Netgear FA310TX network card require fiddling around with isapnp?
> If so, what other network card is good, less than $25, and doesn't require
> messing around with isapnp? Thanks for any info. Please email also if
> possible
>
> ekw
>
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From: "Bill Rippetoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error? message when booting
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:11:55 -0400
ETH0 DELAY INITIALIZATION or something like that when the system boots.
card type Dec 21143, built on to motherboard.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Roberts)
Subject: Re: .htaccess's question
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:23:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Panyan) writes:
> Dear friend,
>
> Sorry to disturb you for asking question, I am glad to find your
> addresss
> from newsgroup. I hope I will get help from you.
>
> I use redhat5.1 v2.0.34,
>
> IP:198.10.10.10 server: Habitat.net
>
> I had edited file srm.conf and change it like:
>
> AllowOverride AuthConfig
>
> I make a file likes checkuser.htaccess which contains following lines:
>
> AuthName "/home/httpd/html/index.html"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /usr/usrs
> require user martin
>
> in /usr, I use htpasswd made users which contain one user "martin"
>
> This is what I have done, but failed to see username & password
> when I use netscpae to see http://habitat.net/index.html or
> http://198.10.10.10/index.html
>
> Please let me know where I had done wrong.
>
> Thank you for your time
>
>
I'm not an expert in this area but I'll give it a try. I believe
the AllowOveride AuthConfig needs to go in a <Directory> container.
ie
<Directory "/home/httpd/html/"
AllowOveride Authconfig
</Directory>
Also, the "AuthUserFile" requires the filename as part of the
directive.
--
Jim Roberts Never enough time!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.mh,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:22:30 -0500
Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
> "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
> >> Here's a sample returned mail:
> >> [snip]
> >> ... while talking to pompano.pcola.gulf.net.:
> >> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> <<< 550 Access denied
> >> 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service unavailable
> >
> > Your address isn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Earthlink's mail server
> > knows it. Use your real address.
>
> No kidding. Why you think I asked if anybody had working sendmail.cf's
> and mtstailor files for Earthlink? I do *NOT* understand sendmail.
So what you're saying is that you want a configuration that lets you use
a bogus address. In that case, you're going to have to change EARTHLINK'S
sendmail.cf file; no amount of changing your own sendmail.cf will help you
do that. It is EARTHLINK'S sendmail that is rejecting your message. Every
time you send e-mail through Earthlink that has a bogus From address, the
Earthlink mailer will reject it and send it back to you.
--
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| Cliff Sharp | Whatever it is that hits the fan, |
| WA9PDM | it will not be distributed evenly. |
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Modem will not dial second time
Date: 16 Apr 1999 15:24:15 -0500
David Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Apr 14 20:55:09 peach pppd[117]: Serial connection established.
: Apr 14 20:55:10 peach pppd[117]: Using interface ppp0
: Apr 14 20:55:10 peach pppd[117]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua0
: Apr 14 20:55:11 peach pppd[117]: local IP address 209.30.202.212
: Apr 14 20:55:11 peach pppd[117]: remote IP address 209.30.200.4
: Apr 14 20:55:25 peach pppd[117]: Terminating on signal 2.
Since you use ppp-off to terminate pppd that script must have a
kill -SIGINT `pidof pppd` or equivalent. Try changing that to
kill -SIGHUP `pidof pppd` which, according to "man pppd", closes
the serial device. Just something to try and not guaranteed.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword. */
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From: "David K. Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Many Questions !!....
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:59:38 -0700
Stephane POMATTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok, here are many questions concerning problems I encountered.
>
> - I want to install a Bootp server. When I installed RH52 i did not
> choose Bootp, so I installed the RPM with rpm -i command. The problem is
> I cannot start when system startup. Under X, when I look at the level
> startind panel, I cannot see Bootp to include it in level 3 to start.
This is a result of a curiosity about how bootpd (the bootp daemon) is
started
The Fine Manual (please read it) for bootpd(8) says that to make this thing
go, you need to include a line in /etc/inetd.conf, so that the Internet
(Super)daemon
will know how to spawn bootpd when a BOOTP request comes by. Since we can't
have every Linux box on a net attempting to serve such requests, this is not
configured
by default.
>
> - Other question is how to lock up an X session. If I click on Xlock
> Icon nothing happens and so everyone has the possibility to "play" with
> my Linux......
I have to pass on this one.
>
> - Finally how to know where a Symbolic Link point to ? I mean how to know
> the destination of an existent link ?
The (all-purpose) ls command will do the trick, if you ask it to be
verbose:
$ls -l foo.*
will list details about all files (or links) named foo.{anything}. If
one of them
is a link elsewhere, you will see a line like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root {some date/time} foo.bar -> /usr/X11/lib/foo.bas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: PPP problems dialing up
Date: 16 Apr 1999 21:31:47 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Liam Whalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Just a note regarding ppp-on and security. For some reasone I noticed that
]my /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages were both world readable. I
]haven't touched these before so I can only assume that they were installed
]that way or I have been so cleaverly hacked that I never noticed a thing ,
]either is possible, but not really the point I'm trying to make. Make sure
]those two files are not worldreadable cause ppp-on or it might be chat,
]which is run by ppp-on, spits your password in plaintext to these files
]depending on how you have you logging setup.
Yes. In production you should not run chat with the -v option, should
not run pppd with the debug option. Also you should not run chat with a
command line string either but use
chat -f chatfile
where chatfile contains the expect/send pairs.
(otherwise a ps auxww will display everything on the chat command line,
including your password while it is running.)
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I find out why my IP aliases don't work
Date: 16 Apr 1999 19:37:16 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jure Simsic) writes:
> I'm trying to set up a firewall. We have our private network (192.168.87.0).
> Our ISP assigned us default IP 193.138.44.23 (net 193.138.44.16) and the router
> is on 193.138.44.17. And they said that the net 193.138.44.64/255.255.255.240
> will be routed to 193.138.44.23. So I'm trying to test this and I've set some
> aliases from 193.138.44.64 net to eth0.
I think you shouild really be alaising these onto the other card, but
that's probably not important.
> I can get out fine through def gw and from outside back as well to default ip
> (.23), but i can't reach any of the aliases.
> traceroute just keeps bouncing back from the router.
Are you saying that it you telnet to a distant machine and then try to
traceroute one of the alias addresses it packets loops between the
ISP's router and your router?
You are sure this address shows up in ifconfig?
If you are saying something else what else?
> and my netstat -r says
That's good - some raw hard facts (well almost). You should really
use the '-n' switch as we are not privy to your /etc/hosts.
"ifconfig" output too is also needed to really make sense of this.
This you are about it the actual looping traceroute output would be
good.
Please remember that when you are asking for help you are often "too
close" to the problem. You should always avoid replaceing raw hard
facts with fuzzy cooked ones as your pre-conceptiopns may obscure the
issue.
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From: matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba-network drives read only
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:37:32 +0000
EFH wrote:
>
> I am setting up a home network with a Linux server. Samba is running great
> with the one exception that my network directories are read only for any
> user but root. I have the following in the smb.conf file for the
> directories I would like any user to access:
> [public]
> path = path to directory
> public = yes
> writable = yes
> printable = no
>
> My Windows machines can access the directories without a problem, but I must
> create a "root" sign-on to write to the drive. I have tried both
> "writable=yes" and "read only=no" but still get read only access for all
> users but root. I'm sure I must be missing something simple (I've been
> using Linux about two weeks) but I'm ready to rip out my hair. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
I believe that you will need set the native Linux file permissions so
that others can write to the directory named in "path = path to
directory"
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:48:40 -0400
From: Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which way perform better?
YC GUO wrote:
> HI:
> Which way network performs better?
> compiling network driver into kernel or load network driver as modules
> in conf.modules?
>
> Thanks
It makes no difference at all. None, zip, nada, zero. The network driver is
just code that is either dynamically loaded when it's needed (in the case of
the module) or is always part of the kernel (if compiled in). Either way,
when the code is in memory there's no difference whatsoever. Keep in mind
that the module, once loaded, won't get unloaded until it's been unused for a
period of time, and in the case of a network driver it will never get
unloaded unless you disable networking completely.
To repeat: there is no difference in performance. Since the network driver
module is probably going to be loaded continuously, there's also not much of
a space advantage in making it a module; it is however handy if you think you
might change network cards someday, since you won't have to recompile the
kernel to add a driver for the new board.
Phil
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Freenet and ppp
Date: 16 Apr 1999 20:28:26 -0500
mongoose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Has anyone connected to Freenet.co.uk with PPP? Im failing miserably and
: would appreciate any help. I have no problem with Windoze(sigh!) and my
: (external) modem seems to hook up ok but then the protocol negotiations
: seem to fail . I have set resolv.conf as per Freenet specification
: (although they do not specify domain name - only nameserver addresses) I
: am running Slackware with a 2.2.2 kernel and ppd is at 2.3.5 .Any ideas?
I'd suggest trying two things. Use the pppd asyncmap option to match the
one the ISP uses: <asyncmap a0000>. Use the pppd option for specifying
IP address option : <:192.168.0.1> . This is a request for pppd to
use the reserved IP address 192.168.0.1 to send data to the ISP and to
provide you your IP address. Yes, this can actually work, I've done it
with my ISPs.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.mh,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5
Date: 17 Apr 1999 01:33:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
>> "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
>> >> Here's a sample returned mail:
>> >> [snip]
>> >> ... while talking to pompano.pcola.gulf.net.:
>> >> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> <<< 550 Access denied
>> >> 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service unavailable
>> >
>> > Your address isn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Earthlink's mail server
>> > knows it. Use your real address.
>>
>> No kidding. Why you think I asked if anybody had working sendmail.cf's
>> and mtstailor files for Earthlink? I do *NOT* understand sendmail.
>
> So what you're saying is that you want a configuration that lets you use
> a bogus address. In that case, you're going to have to change EARTHLINK'S
> sendmail.cf file; no amount of changing your own sendmail.cf will help you
> do that. It is EARTHLINK'S sendmail that is rejecting your message. Every
> time you send e-mail through Earthlink that has a bogus From address, the
> Earthlink mailer will reject it and send it back to you.
No, I need to rig sendmail.cf so that gulf.net and AOL truly consider me
as part of Earthlink. Freddie.jamstar.com is my home machine. I've asked
this several times. Trust me, you're *NOT* helping.
Keven
--
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In Reavers' Deep
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evaluation Copy)
Subject: Proxy/MASQ = bad FTP?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:19:11 GMT
Hi,
I'm running kernel 2.2.3 which is configured to run as a transparent
proxy and do masquerading. It's also routing traffic between the
internet and my internal network and there are no restrictions on what
can come in or go out. Eveything seems to work great EXCEPT ftp.
When I'm on a workstation on the inside network and I want to ftp out,
sometimes I will get problems displaying a directory listing of the site
I'm connected to. Other times, I can connect fine and everything
displays, but downloading is unreliable. For example, if I try to
download a file in Netscape from a site that I'm connected to on the
internet, generally what happens is the transfer will reach 99% or 100%
but will not transfer the last few bytes -- it will just hang and not
complete the transfer. But othertimes it will work fine, it seems to
vary from site to site.
Does anyone know what could be causing this to happen? Again, I'm not
rescricting any ports from coming in or going out and everything else
seems to work great.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Any info would be very much
appreciated!
--Matt
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From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: proftpd help
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:35:02 GMT
I need a user monitor for proftpd so I can see who is online and what they
are doing. Or is they another ftp program that will let me do this..
Thanks
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From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0: re-entering interrupt handler
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:38:43 -0500
I have no experience with SMP, but the only time I've seen this is when
the motherboard was flakey. Possibly a timing problem on the bus.
We finally replaced the motherboard and problem never returned.
Jakub Sipowicz wrote in message <7f4dd2$ip6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Has anyone expirienced any problems using a 3Com 3c900 card
>on a SMP machine? My computer hangs from time to time
>(not too often; once a week, say), displaying infinitely
>"eth0: re-entering interrupt handler".
>
>The system is running on Asus P2B-DS, 2*PII@333 (not overclocked)
>with RH 5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 (with no patches) compiled for SMP.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
> JS
>
>--
>Jakub Sipowicz
>Institute of Computer Science,
>Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Prutser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba with kernel 2.2.3
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:44:31 +0200
You need to upgrade to a later version of SAMBA.
If you're running redhat, you also need to change some compiler switches.
have a look at the samba installation part of my homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Island/3924/linux/upgrade.html
good luck!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park)
Subject: Re: Modem connect speed with PPP
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:42:42 GMT
Roger Marks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm running Red Hat 5.1 (I haven't got 5.2 yet).
: I don't have any problems connecting to various ISPs using
: PPP - this all works fine. However I haven't been able to
: find out just how fast the connection is made.
: On Windows95 when you connect to an ISP a telephone icon
: appears in the lower right corner of the screen which
: when you click on it tells you amongst other things the
: speed at which you have connected via the modem to the ISP.
: I can't find anything like this on Red Hat Linux. I would
: like to know how fast my connections are.
: Any ideas?
: Mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have syslogd, 'chat' and 'pppd' sessions should be logged in
/var/adm/messages. There, you will find "CONNECT ..." along with
other modem outputs. But, the displayed speed can be either for
computer-to-modem (default for most modem) or for modem-to-modem
(what you want). For my Motorola ModemSURFR, 'ATw2' gives the speed
for modem-to-modem connection.
William
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From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet with CRYSTAL CS8900 chip
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:48:07 -0400
Olaf Erckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody an idea about the existence of an ethernet driver for the
> above mentioned chip?
> Any hint, solutions and idea are welcome.
You can go look at ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/linux, or else current
versions of the kernel include support. cs89x0.
--
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From: Mark Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: PPP monitoring program
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:19:03 -0600
Hi
I am looking for a good graphical program to moniter my ppp stats.
I want it tell display connected, disconnected, bytes sent, etc. I
already have chat scripts and such, so I don't need anything to dial for
me, just the monitor. Anyone know of a good one out there?
Thanks,
Mark Powell
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