Linux-Networking Digest #916, Volume #10 Mon, 19 Apr 99 17:13:37 EDT
Contents:
fetchmail & qmail (Frank Lenaerts)
No way to avoid "denial of service attacks"? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IP masquerading firewall - ftp problem (Richard Steiner)
Re: Ipfwadm & gaming (Paul Rusty Russell)
Re: Can't See Samba Server on network (Erka Koivunen)
ISC DHCP server and Cisco proxy DHCP client feature... (Sami YOUSIF)
Get your ## F R E E ## email @ HOTMAILBOX.COM - 51787 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ("Gary S. Mackay")
changing MTU for eth0 ("JEK")
Re: 3C509B NIC Problem... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: timed looping ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem using Squid (Rob van der Putten)
Re: Using Linux as a Solaris install-server. Almost there! (Chris Studholme)
FDDI kills kernel boot (Chris Larsson)
Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem II ("Philip Ross")
Re: arp called for worn IP address (Tom)
Re: About subnet configuration... ("Ian Payne")
Re: Can't access Internet (Smachine)
RH5.2 System loses connection to localhost (Aaron Baugher)
Re: network printing ("David K. Means")
PPP dial in on Linux ("Jose Bautista")
Re: How can I prevent running user news session? (Ian Westcott)
Re: NT faster than Linux? (James Stevenson)
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From: Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fetchmail & qmail
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:49:22 +0000
Hi,
Some time ago, I replaced my sendmail configuration with a qmail
configuration. Sending mail on the local machine is ok but if I now try
to receive mail using fetchmail, I always have problems with the
delivery, which fails (error code 2 (socket), 10 (SMTP open)). I did not
have this problem before with the sendmail configuration. My qmail
setup, is a standard one (as it is just installed [v.1.03]) without
anything special. As described in the INSTALL document, I changed my
/etc/inetd.conf (added the smtp service line but as I was trying, I left
out one tcp-env compared to the INSTALL document because I think it is
not needed (or even an error)).
setup :
----
QMail:
/var/qmail/control/me (and defaultdomain, local, ...) all just contain
localhost.localdomain
Fetchmail:
.fetchmailrc is also pretty standard but it forwards mail to
<userid>@localhost.localdomain instead of just <userid> (as with the
sendmail config)
IMHO, it seems that fetchmail cannot deliver the mail to port 25 where
the qmail-smptd should be listening when started by inetd (after a
fetchmail request), but why???
Is there any more debugging possible in addition to fetchmail -v ??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.security.misc
Subject: No way to avoid "denial of service attacks"?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:17:58 GMT
Hello,
My domain on an Apache hosted server was under some kind of "denial of service
attacks". The latest version of Apache do have a mechanisim to protect against
such activities, so i am going to upgrade and see if it can improve the
situation.
However my question is that, is there really no way to fight against such
attack? How easy is it to trace the source of the attack? So if anyone wants
to bring a site down, all he need to do is keep calling the website index
page / CGI requests to overflooded the server? If I am a big company I might
have the money to fight with it, but what happen to small and home based
Internet business?
Very scary! Any comments and help on this will be very appreciated.
Regards
Ted
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: IP masquerading firewall - ftp problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:24:06 -0500
Here in comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake unto us, saying:
>A line before my ipfwadm rules was
>
>modprobe -a ip_masq_* # add all modules
>
>Isn't this enough to load ip_masq_ftp.o module?
I would need more information to answer that question. My suggestion
is to test using an FTP client which is capable of passive FTP, and see
if it works.
If passive FTP works and active does not, then your above setup is not
properly enableing use of active FTP.
If passive FTP still doesn't work, then you have some other problem.
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Subject: Re: Ipfwadm & gaming
From: Paul Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:43:22 +0930
Tom Elsesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have my 2 W95 boxes connected to the net via ipfwadm.I use my the one
> box for playing a golf simulator (LS99 by Access), which allows for
> head-to-head play with TCP/IP. WHen I connect to another golfer thru the
> linux/ipfwadm, the other player cannot see me. I have to hook the modem up
> to the W95 box and connect that way. Connecting thru something like Kali
> also does not work. Is there a way I can do this so I don't have to move
> the modem around? I am attaching my ipfwadm startup file, amybe that will
> shed some light. It is basically a copy from Kevin Martin's FAQ.
There are two possibilities:
1) The golf simulators are sending the port number and/or IP address
in the data stream.
2) The other end is trying to make a back connection to the server.
In the first case, you have to get the information on the protocol
(hah!) and write a masquerading kernel module for it.
In the second case, you can use auto forwarding to tell it to redirect
the back connection (coming into the masquerading box from the other
player) back to the originating box.
Try logging incoming SYNs (and UDP packets): maybe you can see a back
connection attempt?
Rusty.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erka Koivunen)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Can't See Samba Server on network
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 06:17:07 GMT
comp.protocols.smb / JustinC
> samba:*:406:103:samba:/dev/null:
>
> According to my Running Linux book the variable where you have /dev/null
> is the home directory, the shell is the one after the last :
Might be - this is what I have now and it's working. Isn't /dev/null
a good home directory for people you don't want to login...? ;-)
Erka
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From: Sami YOUSIF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.dcom.sys.sysco
Subject: ISC DHCP server and Cisco proxy DHCP client feature...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:43:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A while back I asked the question, but no one replied....
While reading "Cisco Router Configuration" book by Cisco press (ISBN
1-57870-022-1). In chapter 4, when configuring dialup ppp
interfaces.....
On page 207-208, it states :
"... the IOS software acts as a proxy DHCP client, requesting an IP
address from the DHCP server on behalf of the dialup client. This
configuration method is enabled by specifying the keyword parameter dhcp
to the peer default ip address command. The access server must also be
configured with the IP address of a DHCP server to query for address
requests via the IOS global configuration command ip dhcp-server. The IP
poos defined in the DHCP server would contain addresses from the IP
network address of the access servers's LAN interface..."
Similar info is at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios112/112cg_cr/4cbook/4cppp.htm
My question is: Has anyone used this feature with the ISC DHCP server?
If so, what client identifier do the ciscos give the dhcp server (how
does the dhcp server distinguish each port?) and more important: does
it work?
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:24:55 -0400
From: "Gary S. Mackay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
I'm using an SMC EtherEZ on my Redhat 5.2 and I have the same message at
boot time also. Wondered were that was coming from ??
Gregory Kreymer wrote:
>
> >: > > Whenever I try to add a route ("route add -net 127.0.0.1"), I get
> that error
> >: > > message: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument".
> >: > route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
> I'm using RH 5.2 and didn't even have to add a route and I have the
> "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" come up during a boot. I remember getting it
> even after a fresh install using RH's menu installation. I have a hunch
> that it's a NIC problem - I have a 3905b.... Do you hapen to also have the
> same card?
>
> Greg K.
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From: "JEK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing MTU for eth0
Date: 19 Apr 1999 18:53:52 GMT
Hello,
See subject:
Where does someone do that?
Thanks in advance,
Joost Kuif
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3C509B NIC Problem...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:57:44 GMT
In article <7dhi5t$169$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install slackware linux in our PC. I have tried many
things
> but could not make the network card up.
>
> The Windows device manager shows the network card with these settings.
>
> 3Com Fast Etherlink XL 10/100Mb Tx Ethernet NIC
> 3C905B - TX.
> IRQ-11, Memory Range 08000100-0800017F
> I/O Range 1080-10FF
>
> When I boot the linux system I get this message which results in some other
> error messages (SIOC.. fail because eth0 setup failure)
>
> The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0014->0015
> eth0: 3Com 3C905B Cyclone 100BaseTx at 0xd480, 00:10:5a:9e:a8:19, IRQ 255
>
> *** Warning: IRQ 255 is unlikely to work! ***
> 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface.
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98....
>
> Has anyone familiar with this problem?. Do I need to disable plug and play
> stuff?.
>
> Thanks,
> Mohan.
>
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I have exactly the same problem myself (though with a different brand
ethernet card, SOHOware, so it doesn't seem to be card specific). Please let
me know if you figure it out. There is some way you can add a string in LILO
where you can set the IRQ it uses, I think (I'm just repeating what I read in
LINUX Secrets), so I may try that.
Anyone have any insight on how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.admin
Subject: Re: timed looping
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:41:41 GMT
Ok.... Sorry about the confusion, but I did something that I could have sworn
I did before (but slightly differently).
I did another tcpdump on the linux box that was complaining, and find that
there IS a packet coming from the IP address in the logs.
12:05:50.715371 annex.3934 > 205.173.43.255.time: udp 0
So something about that packet must exercise a bug in the timed in linux. I
don't know enough about timed to see what the problem is but I'm guessing it's
either the broadcast address it's sent to or the contents of the packet.
I haven't checked the correspondence to the other traffic I said occured at
this time. It could be just a coincidence that it happens at the same time
but that seems unlikely.
In article <7fb4at$24c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fredrik Lindstr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Could it be something in crontab that makes it do thoose calls?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i meddelandet <7fah1c$c94$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I noticed a few messages dating from a little while back about these
> >messages, but nobody seems to have the same cause (or lack of one) that I
> >have discovered.
> >
> >On two linux boxes that I admin (one Sparc and one i386), about 30 of these
> >messages appear at a time, in cycles of about 30 minutes:
> >
> >Apr 17 10:20:11 kermit in.timed[4103]: connect from 205.173.43.230
> >
> >Following each cycle is the line:
> >
> >Apr 17 10:20:12 kermit inetd[263]: time/udp server failing (looping),
> service
> >terminated
> >
> >...
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem using Squid
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:47:15 +0200
Hi there
On 17 Apr 1999, Brueckner wrote:
> this configuration is only valid for squid > 2.x
Works with 1.1.x to.
Regards,
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Studholme)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Using Linux as a Solaris install-server. Almost there!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:29:01 GMT
Hi,
I'm the one who wrote the article mentioned in this post. From what I know
of NFS, buffer size is set on the client. Since the Linux machine is acting
as a server, there are no settings to tweak. For NFS version 2, the buffer
size should be 8k, but the Linux implementation (of the client) uses 1k by
default. I'm not sure if it is possible to pass NFS options to Solaris when
mounting the root directory over NFS. Also, I was using the Linux NFS server
implementation that runs in user space. The new 2.2 kernels have an NFS server
that runs in kernel space. From what I understand, this is an entirely new
implementation and may cure the problem I had (but I'm not going to test it).
When compiling a 2.2 kernel, you not only have the option of compiling in the
NFS server, but you also get to choose whether or not the server should act
like a Sun NFS server. This could help.
Chris.
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:08:42 -0500, Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sorry this is so long. I got the following article from
>http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/cstudhol/unix/Solaris-Linux-NetInstall.html
>(thanks for pointing it out, Darrell). I am trying to get a Linux box to
>serve as an install server for a new (to me) Sparcbook 3GX I just bought. I
>have the Solaris 2.6 CD, but no CDROM drive for the Sparcbook. I know, a
>surplus or used CDROM drive would be cheap, but how would that expand my
>little mind? >grin<
>
>In the article below, the author *almost* made this setup work. Seems he
>ran into an NFS issue. Now I know Linux NFS is very forgiving. I hear
>Solaris NFS is not. I think I remember seeing that Solaris NFS uses a
>different buffer size from Linux. Is it possible that the buffer size is
>different between the Lin-box and the Sol-box? Anyone know what can be done
>on the Linux box to make it export data in a format that the Solaris box
>will understand? I looked through the man page for mount on the Lin-box,
>and it indicated that the default buffer size is 1024. What is it on
>Solaris? How can I change it, and should I change it on the Lin-box or the
>Sol-box?
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:23:14 -0400
From: Chris Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FDDI kills kernel boot
Hello all,
I made an attempt to install a DEC FDDI card (yes supported) in a
Dell 6300 with 4 procs and a whole mess of disk and memory (80 GB and 4
GB). Anyway here's the situation I encountered. When compiling the
kernel with fddi support the kernel gets about halfway through the boot
sequence before the screen goes dead and all control of the machine is
lost. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work and the console is dead. The only
recourse is to cycle the power. If the kernel is compiled without FDDI
support, the kernel/system works fine. The ethernet connection works
fine with the non-fddi kernel.
Has anyone had a similiar situation or know of a workaround to this
situation? We want to this machine online in our fddi backbone.
TIA,
Chris Larsson
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From: "Philip Ross" <*philip_ross*@*bigfoot.com*>
Subject: Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem II
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:47:50 +0100
Does anyone know how I can get a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem II
(CEM2) PCMCIA card working under Linux. It is detected correctly, but
network support does not seem to be loaded.
Thank you
Philip Ross
P.S. I would be grateful if you could copy any replies to
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arp called for worn IP address
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:31:09 -0700
I neglected to mention that the eventual configuration will be to have
two LANs under the routers at 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.2.2, which is why
those addresses show up as gateways in the netstat listing. I just
noticed the 10.0.0.0 net in here -- I don't think that I added that!
======================= Begin listings =======================
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:6B:66:77
inet addr:205.61.145.107 Bcast:205.61.145.111
Mask:255.255.255.248
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe400
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:6B:66:DA
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xe000
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:14:A5:E9
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd800
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 1500 0 0
eth1
192.168.2.2 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 1500 0 0
eth2
205.61.145.104 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 1500 0 0
eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0
eth1
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0
eth2
10.10.0.0 192.168.1.2 255.255.0.0 UG 1500 0 0
eth1
10.20.0.0 192.168.2.2 255.255.0.0 UG 1500 0 0
eth2
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0
lo
10.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 255.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0
eth1
0.0.0.0 205.61.145.105 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0
eth0
======================= End listings =======================
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From: "Ian Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About subnet configuration...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:19:30 GMT
Luner Elf wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> I'm now have a bit confuse of subnet setting, If I want to make 4
>subnet in a class C
>IP, then I make the 2 higher-order bits for subnet, that's 11000000...
>
> Am I right? But someone told me that the first and the last subnet
>cannot be
>use, so just have 2 subnet can be used in this case, and just 126 ip can
>be assigned in
> this case, is that true and why?
Originally the RFC that defined subnetting recommended not using the first
and last subnet (i.e all 1's or all 0's), so some IP stacks may not
recognize those subnets as valid.
The latest revision of the RFC no longer includes the recommendation to
leave those subnets empty. So you are correct you can use a 2 bit subnet
mask to define 4 subnets, with the caveat that some older IP stacks may not
recognize them as valid.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:27:37 +0200
From: Smachine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't access Internet
"E B+S Prof. Dr. F. F. Branco-Porto Santo" wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm kinda newbie toLinux.
>
> Here's the problem:
> I have a small network (about 10 PC all running win95/98).
> Only one machine is physically connected to the Internet - this machine
> is running win98, and Sygate is the gateway on the network to access
> Internet..
> From another computer in the network, running RH Linux 5.2, I can ping
> the computer running Sygate (the gateway), but when using Netscape
> Communicator it doesn't find this gateway.
> It says there is no DNS.
> The IP number of the computer running Sygate is entered on the netcfg in
> X11.
>
> What's happening?
> What have I to configure to access the Internet?
>
> Thanks in advance
You cant use Sygate as a DNS server for a linux box ...
you must use the IP's of you ISP's DNS servers in the linux box :)
--> it's all in the Sygate docs :))
Cya,
Smachine
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Subject: RH5.2 System loses connection to localhost
From: Aaron Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:53:10 -0500
Hi all. I'm having an odd problem with a RedHat 5.2 system.
The system boots up and works just fine. After a while, which varies
from an hour to a few days, (it seems to happen sooner if the system
is busier), the system stops being able to make connections to
localhost (127.0.0.1). I can still ping localhost, but can't make any
tcp connections, like telnet. All incoming and outgoing connections
still work fine; it's only internal connections that stop. 'netstat
-rn' still shows the loopback route. Once it happens, I have to
reboot to get it working again.
Any ideas what the problem might be, or at least where I could look?
I'm seeing nothing in any log files to indicate a problem. My next
move will probably be to recompile the kernel and see if that makes a
difference.
System specs -- Redhat5.2, 2.0.36 kernel on Intel, running Squid,
Apache, Qmail (all very lightly loaded), and IP masquerading.
Thanks,
Aaron
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From: "David K. Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: network printing
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:44:15 -0700
Scot Kreienkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys... hope you can provide me with an answer....
>[...] We are trying to set it up to print to a xerox
> plotter over the network, and I can't get it to work. It keeps saying
> the plotter is offline. I can ping it, telnet to it, etc. But I can't
> print to it. It's IP is 192.168.0.21. Could someone please tell me
> what's wrong with my printcap that it doesn't work?
>
Unfamiliar with this plotter, but if it has an IP address, do you need to
just
transfer a file to it? We used to do that with similar devices using a raw
TCP
transfer program called tcpf (which opened a raw TCP stream to the device,
sent the file, and then closed the connection). We'd put that in the :if=
line, and then there was nothing else for the spooler to do.
Hope this helps.
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From: "Jose Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP dial in on Linux
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:32:31 +0200
Hello everybody,
I'd like to use my Redhat 5.2 linux machine as a ppp dial in server
something like the NT RAS server ) in order to access it from my house
using win95 . Sorry, I'm a newbie but I'm working hard in it, Could you
please help me ?
Thanks very much in advance,
jose.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Westcott)
Subject: Re: How can I prevent running user news session?
Date: 19 Apr 1999 20:26:38 GMT
Curt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'd guess innd is running, but I don't know why that would cause your
: connection to get dropped.
There might also be a cron job running which uses the news account... I
suggest checking /etc/cron.* files for anything like this, and delete the
ones that definately don't apply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Crossposted-To: linux.samba,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NT faster than Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:22:33 +0000
Hi
i was also reading the document again (i was tired last night)
i saw that near the bottom it said that
NOTICE:
The information is subject to change without notice
Looks a little big suspect as far as i am concerned
anyone about here who would be running a computer like that??
cya
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:12:11 GMT, Tw Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hmmm. It seems that Linux was starved for memory. There is a comment
>to the effect that the Linux kernel "limited itself to 960meg".
>There is no mention that they tried to override this limit -- with Lilo
>or anything else.
>
>Laurie Brown wrote:
>
>> I received this pointer today. Comments anyone?
>>
>> http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
>>
>> Cheers, Laurie.
>
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