Linux-Networking Digest #990, Volume #10 Thu, 29 Apr 99 22:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible? (Lewis)
Re: Linux on Compaq ("rich bowman")
Re: Pop3 email account ("rich bowman")
Appletalk ("Bas van Oosterum")
DHCP client problem ("Jan Chab")
Re: Pop3 email account ("Ian Lunam")
My mute Netgear FA310TX ethernet card ("Mark M. Ito")
Token Ring and RedHat (David Aubespin)
Re: HELP: ppp hangs when uploading big files ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCP - UDP packet error between Win95 & Linux - need help! (Les Hazelton)
Re: what is listening to a port ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mgetty (M. Buchenrieder)
Multiple IP Addresses ("dan")
Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible? (Lewis)
Re: ppp upgrade & ppp over minicom (Clifford Kite)
The Linux Group ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP isdn: seems to connect to ISP but then immidiately disconnects (Peter Eddy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:22:01 GMT
Sorry folks,
Thought I was posting to another group.
Roger
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:19:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
wrote:
>Folks:
>
> A few questions if I can:
>
>1. Does anybody know if it is possible to share a tape drive between a
>Linux box (I'll probably use Redhat v5.2) and a Win9x box, and use the
>tape drive to back up both machines? The machines will be connected
>via ethernet. Could Samba be used for this purpose?
>
>2. Where would be the best place to place the tape drive? In the
>Linux box, or the Win9x box?
>
>3. Is there any great benefit of having a SCSI tape drive over an
>internal IDE tape drive for the support?
>(Obviously, the IDE is cheaper, and is supported. I'd really like to
>get a parallel port external tape drive, but I see that is not
>supported by Linux. Or is it?)
>
>I'm going to be putting Linux on an old Pentium 166MMX, once we get a
>newer computer. I'm presently specifying parts for the new computer,
>hence the questions about tape drives.
>
>Thanks in advance for all the help.
>
>Roger
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Roger Lewis
>
>Remove "NoSpam_" from email address if replying by email.
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From: "rich bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:26:15 -0400
i will try to help on this one.
when you boot your pc, go into the BIOS, and Compaq gives you the ability to
change IRQ's in there for any "Compaq" equipment.
it's a neat feature.
rich
Ronald L. Chichester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wH5W2.2167$2J5.522466@insync...
> Has anyone been able to get a Compaq workstation (5100/8000, etc.) to
> work on a network using the embedded Netelligent ethernet card?
>
> I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a Compaq Netelligent
> Ethernet NIC (or even a PCI Intel Ethernet Pro 100+) to work under
> Linux on the Compaq machine. The problem that I have been having is
> an IRQ conflict with the SCSI adapter (the BIOS setting NIC (any NIC)
> to IRQ 11 and then the SCSI adapter then being set to IRQ 11).
> Incidentally, either NIC/SCSI combination will work under WinNT
> without difficulty. However the same NIC/SCSI drive will not work
> under any Linux distribution (RedHat, SuSE, or Caldera). I even tried
> to set the IRQ for the NIC directly in a kernel parameter to no
> avail. Evidently, there is something in the Compaq setup that is
> messing up the settings which they somehow fix under NT.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ron Chichester
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From: "rich bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pop3 email account
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:28:07 -0400
thank you both...gonna give it a try.
if you can remember the webpage....please post...
thanks
rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Lunam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7galst$1g3kd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I used to use one called fetchmail but had some reliability problems so I
> shifted to fetchpop. They both do the same thing as getpop3 by the sounds
of
> it.
>
> Ian
>
> Mono wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >The answer lies in getpop3, a nifty daemon that pulls POP3 messages from
> whatever server and sticks them in your local mailbox. I can't remember
the
> homepage at the current moment, but I use it all the time. You can stick
it
> in the cron and everything.
> >
> >-Mono
> >--
> >ShatterSkull Entertainment
> >"It's like an embolism...with candy."
> >
> >----
> >
> >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >WWW: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~wcaskey/index.html
>
>
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From: "Bas van Oosterum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Appletalk
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:36:36 GMT
Hello all,
I want to share some partitions with a Apple Macintosh. I just installed the
appletalk protocol. I now can see my debian server in the apple chooser.
Wenn I choose the debian server I am asked for a user name / passwd. The
problem is: regular accounts on the debian server are not accepted. What's
rong?
An other question: how can I share partitions with the Mac?
Bas
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From: "Jan Chab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP client problem
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:49:31 +0200
Hello,
I run Linux RH 5.2 with KDE (Mandrake 5.3). I have a cable modem and to make
it work I got the latest DHCPcd and compiled it; everything worked fine.
The Ethernet card (NE2000 clone RealTek R-8029 PCI) is found by Linux.
I told Linux to use DHCP to configure the interface (through control-panel
then networking...) at boot.
Problem: it does not work. I get the following messages:
Apr 30 00:38:25 daneel kernel: ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P.
Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
Apr 30 00:38:25 daneel kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek
RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 12.
Apr 30 00:38:25 daneel kernel: eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xe400, IRQ 12,
00:00:E8:E3:C9:A7.
Apr 30 00:38:58 daneel dhcpcd[569]: dhcpStart: socket: Paramhtre invalide.
Apr 30 00:42:48 daneel dhcpcd[630]: dhcpStart: socket: Paramhtre invalide.
Apr 30 00:47:13 daneel dhcpcd[714]: dhcpStart: socket: Paramhtre invalide.
Apr 30 00:48:38 daneel dhcpcd[750]: dhcpStart: socket: Paramhtre invalide.
Apr 30 00:55:08 daneel modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
Apr 30 00:55:08 daneel dhcpcd[769]: dhcpStart: socket: Paramhtre invalide.
Apr 30 00:55:18 daneel modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
[etc.]
If I try to do "ifup eth0" Linux answers: "Using DHCP to configure Eth0...
failed".
"Ifconfig" gives only localloop. "Ifconfig eth0" gives information about the
ethernet card but all values are 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.254 (default). No
configuration has been done.
I am really going mad because it's been a couple of days since I first tried
to configure it.
I would be very grateful for any piece of info or a clue.
Jan Chab ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ian Lunam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pop3 email account
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:29:52 +1200
Search from yahoo.
Ian
rich bowman wrote in message <7gatcn$s9s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>thank you both...gonna give it a try.
>
>if you can remember the webpage....please post...
>
>thanks
>
>rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Ian Lunam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7galst$1g3kd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I used to use one called fetchmail but had some reliability problems so I
>> shifted to fetchpop. They both do the same thing as getpop3 by the sounds
>of
>> it.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> Mono wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >The answer lies in getpop3, a nifty daemon that pulls POP3 messages from
>> whatever server and sticks them in your local mailbox. I can't remember
>the
>> homepage at the current moment, but I use it all the time. You can stick
>it
>> in the cron and everything.
>> >
>> >-Mono
>> >--
>> >ShatterSkull Entertainment
>> >"It's like an embolism...with candy."
>> >
>> >----
>> >
>> >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >WWW: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~wcaskey/index.html
>>
>>
>
>
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From: "Mark M. Ito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My mute Netgear FA310TX ethernet card
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:00:08 -0400
Folks,
Can't get my new ethernet card to talk. It's a Netgear, auto-sensing
10/100 Mbps fast ethernet PCI adapter, model FA310TX. Up to now I've
been using a 3c509 on a 10baseT line without a problem. I heard that I
should use the tulip.o driver in my /etc/conf.modules and it seems to
initialize OK, but no ping. A colleague has used this card with this
driver with success (he rebuilds his kernel, I'm trying the modular
approach). Some more details:
o kernel: 2.0.34
o Linux distribution: RedHat 5.1
o CPU 200 MHz i686
o Try the following:
- use 3Com card
- boot as single user
- try to bring up network: network start
o That worked. nslookup and ping OK. Here's the stuff from dmesg:
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
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 60 97 db 07 de,
IRQ 10.
3c509.c:1.12 6/4/97 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
o Tried the same for Netgear card:
- after switching cards, from cat /proc/pci:
=================================================
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor LNE100TX (rev 33).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master
Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xf800.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfff7fc00.
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Mach64 GT (Rage II) (rev 154).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 14. Master
Capable. Latency=72. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb000000.
I/O at 0xfc00.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbef000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xffa0.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82441FX Natoma (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
=======================================================
- changed /etc/conf.modules to load tulip driver, relevant line:
alias eth0 tulip
- no errors on network start. dmesg output:
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
tulip.c:v0.88 4/7/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xf800, 00 a0 cc 40 18 7c, IRQ 11.
- no network either: nslookup and ping fail
- from cat /proc/net/dev:
===============================================
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 48 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 1 0 0 0 0 10 0 2 0 5
===============================================
Hope someone can help me.
Thanks.
-- Mark
--
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12000 Jefferson Ave., Mail Stop 12H, Newport News, VA 23606
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Office: (757)269-5295, Pager: (757)849-7175
WWW: http://claspc2.cebaf.gov/~marki
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From: David Aubespin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Token Ring and RedHat
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:00:29 -0400
Has anyone managed to have a IBM 16/4 Credit Card (PCMCIA) work under Linux??
I have tried with up to a 2.2.7 kernel, and I can't get it to work!
Any info will be helpful!
thanks
david
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP: ppp hangs when uploading big files !
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:08:33 GMT
No answers, but...maybe this doesn't have to do with Linux. As you say
yourself, you couldn't do this with NT either.
I am running NT and have this problem: two files won't upload. They are both
the same kind of file. They aren't big. The first bunch of kilobytes are
probably the same in each. They get to a certain point (using CuteFTP) and
then hang: 12880 bytes, I think it is. I tried FTP that comes with NT, and
CuteFTP, and I tried uploading to a number of machines. It only worked to
upload to my ISP's machine. I can download the file just fine.
So: if this isn't a problem with my ftp client, what then? Some kind of
routing software out there on the internet? (I don't understand much about
these things.)
David
p.s. please cc replies to my email address; I don't usually read this
newsgroup
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fred T. Hamster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm having a similar problem, but it doesn't affect all big files, only
> certain files.
> i've got ppp set up fine for all intents and purposes, and i'm doing ip
> masquerade. everything works fine (downloading, browsing, pinging, etc)
except
> when i try to download very specific files. the problem files will either not
> start downloading at all, or they will download to a certain percentage and
then
> stop.
> the easiest way i can reproduce this problem to check if it's still broken
is
> to try to download the microsoft office service release one (which i
> unfortunately needed for work). when i get to the proper page at microsoft's
> site, i cannot get the download to even start. it never gets a single byte of
> data in the file. the relevant link to test this yourself is:
>
>
http://premium.officeupdate.microsoft.com/officeupdate/DistribDownload/sr1off97d
dl.htm
>
> try to get the "sr1off97.exe" file. if you don't want to go to microsoft (and
> this page might require registering with them), i also found a bunch of copies
> of the file on the internet; any good search engine should be able to show
them.
>
> none of the copies that i found would download. i even got a friend to
upload
> the file to my ftp site. it would also not download there. i've tried using
> netscape from my NT machine, ftp from my NT machine, netscape from my linux
box,
> and ftp from my linux box. no combination seems able to download this
accursed
> file.
> i looked at the "ifconfig" listing for the interfaces before and after i
tried
> downloading just now. before, there are no dropped packets. after the
attempt
> to download the evil file from hell, there are numerous dropped packets. i
had
> been browsing around before the download, so it's not just that the modem's
> toast. it's almost as if the packets being sent for just this file are
> corrupted; before, during and after the download, the connection is fine and i
> can be looking at any web sites or downloading any other files that i want to.
> i'm also using redhat, as the original poster was. i had the problem under
> 5.1 and now am having the same exact problem under 5.2.
> i'd be really psyched if someone has a solution for this. it makes my life
a
> gruesome horror story to think that there could be a bug this basic in
linux...
> or redhat's distribution.
> thanks,
> chris.
> ps: here are some other links for that file that hotbot told me about--
> http://www.netgear.com/pub/NEWUSER/win95/
> http://www.neuro.uni-oldenburg.de/~weichert/Download/
> http://www.frostbit.com/Tools/
>
> --
> ______ chosen by the Nechung Oracle Program (http://www.twain.com/)... ______
>
> I don't need a friend who changes when I change
> and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
> -- Plutarch
>
> _____________ not necessarily my opinions, not necessarily not. _____________
>
> Joceli Mayer wrote:
>
> > Dear Fellows:
> >
> > I've tried everything to fix a weird problem with my Flex56K
> > PCMCIA modem on my AMD K-2 laptop.
> >
> > Everything works fine (dowmloading huge files and sending mails,
> > browsing, etc) till I try to send files bigger than
> > 40 Kbytes or so. Whenever I try it, the ppp hangs, the system reports a
> > live connection, but it is freezed . After that, I need
> > to kill the ppp connection and start another one.
> > BTW this modem works fine under WIN95 for uploading and downloading. My
> > Internet Provider has 33K modem banks.
> >
> > As far as I know I tried everything except to upgrade the kernel (mine's
> > 5.1 Red Hat).
> > It must be some software solution for that since it works under
> > windows95, and it works for everyting on linux except for
> > uploading big files.
> >
> > If anyone has a clue of what is going on, Help me please ! I dont wanna
> > buy an external model for my laptop, that would be a shame, besides
> > I hate to boot to windows95 only to upload a file.
> > I really appreciate any heplful input from you,
> >
> > --
> > Joceli Mayer
>
>
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:40:02 -0400
From: Les Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP - UDP packet error between Win95 & Linux - need help!
Michael Balderas wrote:
>
> What version of windows 95 is and what version of Microsoft's TCP/IP
> stack do you have installed on it? IE4, IE5, and DUN1.3 all have
> modified versions of TCP/IP and I think DUN1.3 is the most current. If
> you are not on one of these versions then I would suggest installing
> DUN1.3 and seeing if that resolves the issues.
>
> Mike
My system runs Win95 OSR2. I know it has IE4 installed though I use
Netscape 4.51 instead.
I was not sure about the level of the IP stack and did not know how to
check. So, I just downloaded DUN 1.3 and installed that. It made no
difference in the problem. At least, none I could see.
Based on an off-line suggestion I received, I ran tcpdump and could see
various inbound packets, but none that looked like DHCP recognized
them. And, no reply from DHCP.
some clips from the tcpdump log follow.
18:48:24.964719 0:a0:cc:3e:b9:4c > 3:0:0:0:0:1 sap f0 ui/C len=189
2c00 ffef 0800 0000 0000 0000 484f 4d45
4f46 4649 4345 2020 2020 201d 4641 5250
5432 2020 2020 2020 2020 2000 ff53 4d42
2500 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1100 003b
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 003b 0056 0003 0001 0001 0002 004c
005c 4d41 494c 534c 4f54 5c42 524f 5753
4500 0104 60ea 0000 4641 5250 5432 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0400 0322 4000 1504
55aa 4c65 7320 4861 7a65 6c74 6f6e 202d
2048 6f6d 6520 4f66 6669 6365 00
18:48:41.143807 0:a0:cc:3e:b9:4c > 3:0:0:0:0:1 sap f0 ui/C len=44
2c00 ffef 0a1a 0b00 0000 0b00 4641 5250
5431 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 4641 5250
5432 2020 2020 2020 2020
2000
<snip... last block repeated several times>
18:51:05.298816 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0xfca2fca2
[|bootp] (ttl 128, id 1024)
18:51:11.309984 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0xfca2fca2
secs:1536 [|bootp] (ttl 128, id 1280)
18:51:17.324418 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0xfca2fca2
secs:3072 [|bootp] (ttl 128, id 1536)
18:51:23.338877 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0xfca2fca2
secs:4608 [|bootp] (ttl 128, id 1792)
18:54:21.255276 farpt1.netbios-dgm > 192.168.1.255.netbios-dgm: udp 213
(ttl 64, id 126)
18:54:21.255767 farpt1.netbios-dgm > 192.168.1.255.netbios-dgm: udp 207
(ttl 64, id 127)
< then the first sequence starts over again. >
The address in the first two blocks ( 0:a0:cc:3e:b9:4c ) is the correct
mac address for the ethernet nic in the Win95 system.
Can you tell me what this all means?
--
Les Hazelton
============================================
All things are either sacred or profane.
The former to ecclesiasts bring gain;
The latter to the devil appertain.
-- Dumbo Omohundro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what is listening to a port
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:05:45 GMT
Andy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: venus:/ 9#fuser -n tcp 80
: 80/tcp: 300
: venus:/ 10#ps aux | grep 300
: root 300 0.0 0.1 784 68 ? S Apr 25 0:00 inetd
: venus:/ 11#
: In this case the web server is started by inetd, and inetd is listening
: on port 80
I just tried the same on my machine(Slackware 3.6 Kernel 2.2.6) and this is what I got:
out [greg] ~$ fuser -n tcp 1791
1791/tcp: 11186
out [greg] ~$ ps aux | grep 186
greg 11186 1.2 10.9 6724 5164 a1 S 17:25 0:11 rtin
out [greg] ~$ ps aux | grep sendmail
root 32013 0.0 1.6 1316 792 ? S Apr 26 0:00 sendmail: accepting
connections on port 25
out [greg] ~$ fuser -n tcp 25
out [greg] ~$ fuser -n tcp 25
out [greg] ~$
As you can see the "active" connection is detected with no problem,
but the "listening" sendmail connection isn't. I had written a perl
script that would properly identify id all ports and their owners
by going through the /proc directory, but I haven't had time to
convert the sucker to work with 2.2* yet. I looked in the man manpages
for fuser but I didn't see anything that helped.
---
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than you can by listening to a genius.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: mgetty
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:23:26 GMT
Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Paradise Lines wrote:
>> Hi,
>> we are having difficulty setting up the mgetty command in
>> /etc/inittab under SuSE Linux 6 (kernel 2.2.5).
>>
>> syntax:
>> S0:2:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -p @ -n 2 -D ttyS0
[...]
>It's not mgetty's job to set the modem to auto-answer;
Right.
>you need to do that
>with the echo ats0=2 command.
[...]
AARGH. NO. Mgetty tells the modem to go off-hook when it receives data
on the port. If you set the modem to autoanswer, mgetty will freak out.
>Hope this helps,
Sorry, no.
Michael
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From: "dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple IP Addresses
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:25:56 -0600
Hi all
I'm using Linux 5.1 and trying to get multiple IP addresses on it for
the sake of a webserver...... does anyone know the file I should be editing?
Or whats the best way to go about this???
Thanks
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:19:55 GMT
Folks:
A few questions if I can:
1. Does anybody know if it is possible to share a tape drive between a
Linux box (I'll probably use Redhat v5.2) and a Win9x box, and use the
tape drive to back up both machines? The machines will be connected
via ethernet. Could Samba be used for this purpose?
2. Where would be the best place to place the tape drive? In the
Linux box, or the Win9x box?
3. Is there any great benefit of having a SCSI tape drive over an
internal IDE tape drive for the support?
(Obviously, the IDE is cheaper, and is supported. I'd really like to
get a parallel port external tape drive, but I see that is not
supported by Linux. Or is it?)
I'm going to be putting Linux on an old Pentium 166MMX, once we get a
newer computer. I'm presently specifying parts for the new computer,
hence the questions about tape drives.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
Roger
===================================================
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: ppp upgrade & ppp over minicom
Date: 29 Apr 1999 15:58:27 -0500
James Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I don't want to set pppd and minicom to world executable, otherwise
: that will defeat the purpose of the pppusers group. But I can't figure
: out why a pppuser who can suid to root is unable to open /dev/cua0,
: even I set the permission for all to read and write?
This clip from the ppp-2.3.7 README may be applicable:
What was new in ppp-2.3.6.
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* Pppd now opens the tty device as the user (rather than as root) if
the device name was given by the user, i.e. on the command line or
in the ~/.ppprc file. If the device name was given in
/etc/ppp/options or in a file loaded with the `call' option, the
device is opened as root.
You really ought to use pppd with chat - as the bombastic among us
are wont to say, it's the Right Thing To Do. ( To any that are tempted:
Don't bother - flames bounce off me and hit /dev/null without doing any
harm whatever. )
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:38:42 GMT
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP isdn: seems to connect to ISP but then immidiately disconnects
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:05:30 +0000
marc* wrote:
> Apr 29 20:43:15 localhost ipppd[518]: CHAP authentication failed
This is your problem, your ISP uses CHAP authenticaion and you don't
have it set up correctly on your machine. See:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.2
for info on how to set it up.
Peter
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