Linux-Networking Digest #943, Volume #10 Thu, 22 Apr 99 19:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: Fast Ethernet Card support ..... (Pavel Grinfeld)
Re: Putting Linux on my existing NetWare LAN - questions (Raymond Doetjes)
POP3 dying? ("Mark")
Re: NT faster than Linux? (Mark Evans)
Re: Network Backup Server (Barry)
Re: EzPPP -- reopen modem?? (John Thompson)
E21xx NIC Bogus Packet Size (Ernie DeVries)
Re: Automatic gateway ("Curt")
Re: NT faster than Linux? (Matthew Malthouse)
Re: Mail server for Linux (Horst von Brand)
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From: Pavel Grinfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,cern.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:28:52 +0000
Do you know what the line "The transmitter stopped! ..." means. My system
outputs the same message!
Pavel
Rod Smith wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Hus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Greetings!!!
> >
> > I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> > 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> > Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> > modules provided by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> > 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> > right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> > need a specific linux device driver for it??)
>
> The Linksys LNE100TX is one of MANY cards based on the DEC "Tulip"
> chipset. Unfortunately, I gather that DEC is no longer making this
> chipset (the reports I've seen are that Intel swallowed up that part of
> DEC and has discontinued the chipset). Fortunately, a number of clones of
> the Tulip chipset have become available, and most Tulip board
> manufacturers, including Linksys, have simply switched to one of these
> clones. The clones may not be recognized by any but the latest of the
> Linux Tulip drivers, though. You can obtain the latest from:
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html
>
> You'll need to take the tulip.c file and put it in your kernel source
> directory (in drivers/net, IIRC), then recompile either modules or the
> kernel, depending upon how your system is configured.
>
> Now, if your card is old enough to have a "genuine" DEC part, it SHOULD be
> recognized already, assuming that SuSE includes Tulip support by default.
> That assumption could be wrong. In either event, try this at a command
> prompt:
>
> dmesg | grep eth0 -
>
> This will show you the kernel bootup messages concerning the eth0 device.
> Here's what this returns on my system, which uses a recent Linksys
> LNE100TX with a Tulip clone:
>
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x7c00, xx xx xx xx xx xx, IRQ 11.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
> eth0: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is 2068012, CSR6 812e0002.
> eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
>
> (I've axed my board's identifying numbers.) The output for a board with
> an original DEC part will be a bit different, of course, but you should
> see some sort of part identification and status report.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
> NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Putting Linux on my existing NetWare LAN - questions
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:26:25 +0200
Well first of all it is great to hear taht there are still people that
appreciate Novell Netware. (I just love it).
Well first answer
Linux will just ignore IPX packets just like any other "strange"
protocoll they can co-exist on the same network. (Pretty cool huh,
Netbeui, IPX, LAT, IP can all run over the same network).
You can even install marsnwe to emulate a 3.12 Novell server or install
Novell Netware 4.10 for Linux (Native novell on Linux www.caldera.com)
Answer 2
Your system is good enough for a SMB fileserver. You've got a nioce
ammount fo memory to cache some requests.
ANswer 3
I suggest you get either SusE 6.x or RedHat 5.2. I must say I prefer the
SuSE distribution but others Like RedHat. But ignore the 5.x suse
distributions, since LIBC5 will pull down performance on SAMBA, the
glibc compiled samba servers are faster. You could see that in a test of
PC-Online.
What you should look out for is that you have samba 2.0 or higher. Since
that can use oplocks and increases write speeds significantly.
ANd I suggest that you visit my site. The only option that works right
now is fileservers based upon SMB. Just what you need. I have some great
examples that might be helpfull. http://node102bd.a2000.nl/rdoetjes
Raymond
"Christopher R. Dorr" wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm going to be putting a Linux box on my corporate LAN over the next
> month or so, and I had a few questions, if anyone could help me.
>
> 1. The LAN this is going on is a NetWare 4.11 network, currently
> running IPX only. I'm planning on running IPX to the NW box, and IP to
> Linux. Any problems with this, or anything I have to watch out for?
> Neither server will have to see/use resources (other than the
> infrastructure - cables, hubs, etc) on the other. Any problems with
> passwords, etc.? Will Linux have any problems seeing the IPX packets,
> or will it just ignore them.
>
> 2. I'm planning on running SAMBA to about 30-35 Win95/98 machines.
> Basic file/print services. I'm also planning IP Masquerading, and
> hooking my LAN up to the internet. LAN mail services, and perhaps some
> light SQL serving. The machine I'm going to be running it on will be a
> Compaq DeskPro Pentium 75 w/ 64MB RAM, and 4+ GB IDE Disk Space. It's
> the best I could get right now. Workstation based backups. Anyone see
> any problems with this configuration and this machine?
>
> 3. Any particular distributions good for this kind of setup? I've got
> SuSE at home, and on my laptop.
>
> As you can tell from my questions, I'm not yet experienced in Linux
> networking. I have got a fair handle on basic Linux operations, and I
> am pretty experienced with NetWare networking. Any ideas, suggestions,
> or comments would be appreciated. Thanks for any help.
>
> Chris Dorr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP3 dying?
Date: 22 Apr 1999 20:00:25 GMT
Hello,
Last weekend we configured a RedHat 5.2 Linux machine to be our corporate
e-mail server. It's basically been working wonderfully. However, this
morning I received several reports of people getting error messages from
their e-mail clients. The error messages were that "the pop3 server name
specified cannot be found...." When I heard this I checked my own e-mail
and received the same message. I was able to ping the server but couldn't
retrieve mail. Rebooting the Linux mail server stopped the error message
and allowed us to continuing getting our e-mail.
My understanding is that my POP3 server ( ipop3d) is started from my
inetd.conf file whenever a telnet request is made on port 110. (I didn't
check to see if this was running before I rebooted so it's possible it had
died.) Any other possibilities? Since I'm not sure why it happened I can't
be sure it won't happen again, like while I'm on vacation. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NT faster than Linux?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:13:40 +0100
Matthew Malthouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <S2o*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) wrote:
> } Laurie Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> } >I received this pointer today. Comments anyone?
> } >http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
> }
> } Look at the 'Mindcraft Certification' section. Sponsored by Microsoft.
> }
> } [They stitch up a Sun E450 in a similar fashion.]
> That must have been a really creative piece of writing.
> I don't have comparisons done but I do have Sun E450 1 gig ram standing
> right beside Netfinity NT servers with 4 gig ram.
> The Suns knock spots off the Nfs in every aspect I can think of.
What happens if you were to tune the NT machine (money
no object) and knobble the Suns (every which way
possible) though?
Then you'd be able to get something like Mindcraft (also
dubbed "Microdaft" and "Mindcrap") test conditions.
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From: Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Backup Server
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:02:38 GMT
Hi,
Stephen Osborn wrote:
> like to also use the Linux box as a backup server. Put a tape drive in it
> and allow the internal machines to access it an backup their Win95/98
"Internal machines"? Why not write a script on the Linux box to do this:
mount client 1 .. n (with smbmount)
backup to tape from client n
unmount everything!
Barry
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EzPPP -- reopen modem??
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:56:53 -0600
Rob Kent wrote:
>
> I've just finished installing EzPPP, which is actually a nice little front
> end to the pppd, basically eliminates messing around with config files.
> You essentially set up the configuration graphically, dial, and then it
> spawns a pppd with all the right options.
>
> As root, it's working fine. I also want other users to have access,
> though, and so i've changed some permissions around so that any user SHOULD
> be able to use it specifically, I changed the following devices
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root tty 5 Apr 17 18:52 /dev/modem -> ttyS2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 66 Apr 21 14:15 /dev/ttyS2
>
> to be globally read-writable, and turned the ppp daemon's SUID on, as well
> as making it globally executable:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 17 14:36 /usr/sbin/pppd -> pppd-2.3*
> -r-sr-sr-x 1 root root 117032 Mar 27 21:36 /usr/sbin/pppd-2.3*
>
> The thing is, the pppd keeps dying immediately after any normal (ie, non
> root) user dials up and logs in (all of which works correctly), and the
> following line shows up in the syslog:
>
> Apr 21 14:03:29 pangea pppd[348]: Failed to reopen /dev/modem: Permission
> denied
>
> Which I don't understand, since everyone can read and write /dev/modem, and
> the pppd runs as root anyway! Any ideas?
I had to run ezppp as root (or use sudo to allow mortal
users to do so) before it would work for me. I have it set
up now so that when a user clicks on the ezppp icon it
brings up sudo's password verification and (after a valid
passowrd is entered) the ezppp window comes up.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Ernie DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: E21xx NIC Bogus Packet Size
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:07:23 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm using Mandrake-Red Hat 5.3.
Thanks to the Ethernet How-To I've managed to get my Cabletron E2119 NIC
"working" - that is to say Linux can now find it. Unfortunately, I'm
now getting a Bogus Packet Size error as indicated by this output from
dmesg:
e2100.c:v1.01 7/21/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
eth0: E21** at 0x280, 00 00 1D 0B 9E 93, IRQ 11, primary media, memory @
0xd0000.
eth0: bogus packet size: 8194, status=0x8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 8194, status=0x8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xc9 nxpg=0x0.
The full dmesg text is attached in case it it helpful.
I've searched through the How-To files, but can't find anything
helpful. Yes, I've seen the warning about not using a Cabletron card
unless it's what you are stuck with - and for the moment I'm stuck with
it.
Your help & input are appreciated!
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Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fff70
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfc855
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc9ef
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 46812k/49152k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1036k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Linux IP multicast router 0.07.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Dec 29
13:11:13 EST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
hda: WDC AC2700F, 696MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=708/32/63
hdc: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: WDC AC1170, 162MB w/63kB Cache, CHS=1010/6/55
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdd: hdd1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: SPP port present
ppa: EPP 1.7
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use SPP
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using SPP
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi0 : Iomega parport ZIP drive
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Adding Swap: 17100k swap-space (priority -1)
sysctl: ip forwarding off
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
e2100.c:v1.01 7/21/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
eth0: E21** at 0x280, 00 00 1D 0B 9E 93, IRQ 11, primary media, memory @ 0xd0000.
eth0: bogus packet size: 8194, status=0x8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 8194, status=0x8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xf8 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x3c nxpg=0x0.
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x18 nxpg=0x0.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0x10 nxpg=0x0.
eth0: bogus packet size: 0, status=0xc9 nxpg=0x0.
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From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automatic gateway
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:40:34 -0500
So what is your question?
Guessing: You probably want your default gateway to be the
gateway between the 10.1.0.0 segment and the 10.128.0.0 segment.
10.1.x.y___________10.1.x.z internal router 10.128.n.m
____________10.128.a.b
your default gw
gw to internet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7fn4pp$9qj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello reader,
>
>We've got an internal network with adressen starting with 10.1.*.* and
>another network starting with 10.128.*.* . The gateway is on the
>10.128.*.* network and I'am at 10.1.*.* . Linux doesn't configure the
>gateway on bootup, it does find the 10.128.0.0 network. I'am using
>redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I've put the gateway in
>/etc/sysconfig/network.
>
>Thanx in advance
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Malthouse)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NT faster than Linux?
Date: 22 Apr 1999 22:31:14 GMT
In article <S2o*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) wrote:
} Laurie Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
} >I received this pointer today. Comments anyone?
} >http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
}
} Look at the 'Mindcraft Certification' section. Sponsored by Microsoft.
}
} [They stitch up a Sun E450 in a similar fashion.]
That must have been a really creative piece of writing.
I don't have comparisons done but I do have Sun E450 1 gig ram standing
right beside Netfinity NT servers with 4 gig ram.
The Suns knock spots off the Nfs in every aspect I can think of.
Matthew
--
"Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto"
http://www.calmeilles.demon.co.uk/index.html
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From: Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mail server for Linux
Date: 22 Apr 1999 18:40:35 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
> What program do I use and can someone point me to a FAQ or something so I can
> learn how to do this?
Mail-HOWTO, should be under /usr/doc/HOWTO in RedHat. Root around there,
there is much useful info nearby.
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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