Linux-Networking Digest #9, Volume #11 Sat, 1 May 99 21:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: telnetd: All network ports in use (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: pppd on serial line (Rob van der Putten)
ISDN and linux ("Demetrius")
Module-info file in /boot ("Demetrius")
Cannot access network on PCMCIA ethernet card (Dennis Koss)
Re: telnetd: All network ports in use (Rich Unger)
Re: NFS-Root Problem in Debian 2.1?? (Ken McCord)
able to telnet but no surfing... (L)
Re: Linux IP masquerading & an Indy (John R. Campbell)
Re: ipchains help please (Anjan Sen)
Linux IP masquerading & an Indy (Psycho)
pppd on serial line (David Renz)
Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible? (Lewis)
Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible? (Lewis)
IP Masq & Netmeeting (zzoom)
IP masq & netmeeting (zzoom)
Re: kicking specific users off (Michael Balderas)
DNEWS4 News Server Mthly Pointer to FAQ (Stephen Pugmire)
Re: DNS (was Re: DSL) (DanH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: telnetd: All network ports in use
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 23:11:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Unger wrote:
>Just upgraded from RH 5.1 to 6.0, and now I don't seem to be able to
>telnet into my machine. The error message is:
>
>telnetd: All network ports in use.
>
>ftpd, httpd, pop3d all work fine. Has anyone else encountered this?
Does RH use /dev/ptmx ? If yes, then at least telnetd needs to be
changed (I've got a patch since the current version does not support
it) to work with Unix98 pty's. If now make sure your /dev
directory is up to date since there were some changes. See the
Changes file in the linux/Documentation directory.
I suspect the latter one since telnetd dies with that message
if it cannot allocate a pseudo tty.
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd on serial line
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 01:19:39 +0200
Hi there
On Sat, 1 May 1999, David Renz wrote:
> I want to connect two computers with a serial cable on a 16550A.
> (It works with win95).
Have a look at the leased line mini howto and skip the modem part.
Regards,
Rob
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From: "Demetrius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN and linux
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 19:12:39 -0400
All,
I will be setting up a Redhat linux box to use an external Motorola Bit
Surfer Pro modem. I have looked through the how to's and still a bit
confused. Has anyone done this before? If so, I would very much appreciate
an overview on what I need to do. Thanks!
Demetrius
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From: "Demetrius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Module-info file in /boot
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 19:14:14 -0400
The Module-info file in /boot in redhat linux. What is it for? Why when I
recompile a new kernel does it not get updated? Can anyone give me a brief
tutorial on this file?
Thanks
Demetrius
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Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 23:28:29 +0000
From: Dennis Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot access network on PCMCIA ethernet card
I have an Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 Mobile Adapter PCMCIA
ehternet card in an IBM Thinkpad 850ED running Redhat 5.2. I cannot
see anything on the network . The card services see the adapter and the
module is loaded, the IP interface is configured and I can ping myself,
but nothing gets onto the wire. I also tried an IBM CreditCard ethernet
adapter with the same results. Cardctl ident shows the information
about the adapters. Any ideas what is wrong?
Denny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Unger)
Subject: Re: telnetd: All network ports in use
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:11:30 GMT
On Sat, 01 May 1999 23:11:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Juergen Heinzl) wrote:
>>telnetd: All network ports in use.
>>
>
>Does RH use /dev/ptmx ? If yes, then at least telnetd needs to be
>changed (I've got a patch since the current version does not support
>it) to work with Unix98 pty's. If now make sure your /dev
>directory is up to date since there were some changes. See the
>Changes file in the linux/Documentation directory.
>
>I suspect the latter one since telnetd dies with that message
>if it cannot allocate a pseudo tty.
And you would be correct. When I upgraded, I had to remove the mount
point of the drive mounted on /home from my fstab (as that's where I
installed from -- major bug in the installer), so when I was changing
my fstab back after installation, I didn't notice that the "none"
entry needed to be changed from the /proc filesystem to the /dev/pts.
Thanks!
Rich
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From: Ken McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS-Root Problem in Debian 2.1??
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:11:54 -0400
Problem found!
Debian 2.0 did not require the server's /etc/export file to have the
client specified - ie, the following /etc/export was valid:
/tftpboot/192.168.254.241 (rw,no_root_squash)
For Debian 2.1, I had to modify the file to:
/tftpboot/192.168.254.241
192.168.254.241/255.255.255.255(rw,no_root_squash)
or
/tftpboot/192.168.254.241 192.168.254.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
Thanks to all those who helped!
Ken
Ken McCord wrote:
>
> Having a problem with root mounted NFS file systems on my PC's acting as
> X
> terminals. Everything has been working fine with Debian 2.0, but as
> soon as I
> upgrade to the nfs-server (and net-base) in 2.1 (either by a full
> install
> of slink, or just upgrading the nfs-server/net-base), I'm getting all
> sorts of
> 'Permission Denied' and 'Operation Not Permitted' errors on boot from
> the X
> terminals. Does anyone have any ideas why this may be happening??
>
> Here's some information, if you need more, please let me know.
>
> A small snippet from the X terminal display during boot:
> Root-NFS: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.254.240, my address is
> 192.168.254.241
> Root-NFS: Got file handle for /tftpboot/192.168.254.241 via RPC
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem)
> ...
> 192.168.254.240: /tftpboot/192.168.254.241: NFS file system
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/mtab: Permission denied
> more Permission denied and Operation not permitted messages follow...
> logon prompt appears, but cannot log in.
>
> # /etc/bootptab
> #
> global.pref:
> sm=255.255.255.0:\
> ds=192.168.254.1:\
> gw=192.168.254.1:\
> ht=ethernet
>
> alpha:\
> hd=/tftpboot/192.168.254.241:\
> tc=global.pref:\
> ha=004005125c3b:\
> ip=192.168.254.241:\
> bf=vmlinuz
>
> #/etc/inetd.conf snippet
> tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> /tftpboot
> bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i -t 120
>
> # /etc/exports (on 192.168.254.241)
> /tftpboot/192.168.254.241 (rw,no_root_squash)
>
> # /tftpboot/192.168.254.241/etc/fstab
> 192.168.254.240:/tftpboot/192.168.254.241 / nfs defaults 1
> 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 1
> 1
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Ken McCord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L)
Subject: able to telnet but no surfing...
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:47:45 +0200
Yo, lynx says: can�t resolve hostname, but ping and telnet work fine.
What is Wrong???
(SuSE 6.0, pppd, wvdial)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Campbell)
Subject: Re: Linux IP masquerading & an Indy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:31:41 GMT
Aside from the fact that you really should not broadcast
any of your internal IP addresses,
Your internal address is usually best as one of the "private"
IP networks (all 256 networks between 192.168.0.0 and
192.168.255.255) since all routers are supposed to not service
these.
OK, here's the cool one: Have you set up the DNS server
information to the Indy? You need to ensure that the
/etc/resolv.conf file is (reasonably) initialized to
reach through.
Another item to pay attention to is that the route command
allows you to set up a "metric" which indicates "cost" (I
think) of the connection (i.e. that it must be marked routable).
On Sat, 01 May 1999 20:27:45 +0000, Psycho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I acquired a used Indy last week and am very pleased with it.
>I have a small network in my home consisting of a Redhat 2.2.1 pc, an NT
>
>server and the wifes Win98 box. The Linux box is masquerading (has been
>for many moons) and works most wonderfully. I did a clean install of
>irix and setup my networking. I added the statement
>"route add default x.y.z.75 0" which is the IP address of the linux
>box.
It also helps to phrase this as...
route add -net default x.y.z.75 1
so that the "1" is fed in as the "metric".
I noticed that nowhere in the netstat listing is an IP marked
as "UG" (gateway).
Good Luck!
--
John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- As a SysAdmin, yes, I CAN read your e-mail, but I DON'T get that bored!
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are those of John Campbell alone and
do not reflect the opinions of his employer(s) or lackeys
thereof. Anyone who says differently is itching for a fight!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anjan Sen)
Subject: Re: ipchains help please
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 21:44:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My thanks to everyone for their prompt and helpful advice. I have done a
number of things to get it working under kernel 2.2.7. I'm new to Linux
and am learning the whole time.
Regarding the apparent absence of the built in chains, I recompiled the
kernel and switched on everything I could see that asked about firewalls
and masquerading. This seemed to fix the problem of the chains not being
there. I am unsure of exactly which option I needed so may revisit this
at some stage and remove the unnecessary ones by a process of
elimination. I definitely had the two that I'd read were required checked
right at the start of all this.
The other problem I had is that as Mist said, the tutorial has some
errors. I did my homework and read the howto and also the page at
rustcorp and even cut and pasted the commands from there so there was no
chance of typing errors. I spent many hours trying to fix it myself
before asking for help.
Finally, here is my rc.firewall script. Does it look sensible for a
gateway machine using ppp with an address of 158.152.160.123 and machines
on 192.168.*.* hiding behind it? It all seems to work.
ipchains --flush input
ipchains --flush output
ipchains --flush forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.1/32 -d 0.0.0.0/0
Thanks again
Anjan.
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From: Psycho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux IP masquerading & an Indy
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:27:45 +0000
I acquired a used Indy last week and am very pleased with it.
I have a small network in my home consisting of a Redhat 2.2.1 pc, an NT
server and the wifes Win98 box. The Linux box is masquerading (has been
for many moons) and works most wonderfully. I did a clean install of
irix and setup my networking. I added the statement
"route add default 10.33.9.75 0" which is the IP address of the linux
box.
The output of netstat -nr is:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags MTU RTT RTTvar Use
Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 0 139
lo0
10.33.9.200 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 0 246
lo0
default 10.33.9.75 U 0 0 0 3
ec0
10 10.33.9.200 U 0 0 0 13
ec0
224.0.0.0 10.33.9.200 U 0 0 0 15
ec0
Telnet, ftp and rlogin all work fine. I just cannot see past the Linux
box to the outside world. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
rich
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From: David Renz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd on serial line
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 22:24:23 +0200
Hello,
I want to connect two computers with a serial cable on a 16550A.
(It works with win95).
My kernel supports ppp.
I tried pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 plus different combinations of options
like
-d, -detach, <local IP>:<remote IP>, passive, crtscts
route -n shows ppp0 (with 0 0 0 ..), but ifconfig only shows dummy,
eth0 and loopback.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:47:07 GMT
Thanks for the info.
Roger
On 30 Apr 1999 14:50:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
Smith) wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis) writes:
>> 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?
>
>I investigated this question a few months back. It is possible to do what
>you suggest, but there are drawbacks. The way I experimented with was to
>use smbmount to mount the remote Win9x filesystem on the Linux box and
>then back it up with tar (or any other Linux backup software). This works
>pretty well, with one caveat: You may not get the Windows registry file.
>It's therefore vitally important that you use some Windows utility to back
>that file up to something else, in such a way that you can restore it
>easily if that becomes necessary.
>
>Restores are another headache. A partial restore (say, if you trash a few
>files and need them back) isn't a big deal, but for a full restore (hard
>drive gets fried, say), you're faced with a chicken-and-egg problem: You
>can't get the Windows box on the network without first restoring it. I
>saw four possible solutions to this problem:
>
>1) Install Windows on the machine, get it on the network, and then use
> the network connection to mount the drive on Linux and restore it.
> This is ugly and I've not tested it. I fully expect there would be
> problems with collisions between the "fresh" Windows install and the
> files you're restoring.
>2) Create a Norton Zip Recovery disk. If you've got a Zip drive, you can
> use a utility from Iomega's or Norton's web site (and that comes with
> Norton Utilities) to create a bootable Zip disk (it also requires a
> boot floppy) with enough of Windows on it to get the system working on
> the network. You can then restore the machine without fear of filename
> collisions. I tested this, and it works.
>3) Create a custom Linux boot floppy (or other boot medium, like a
> bootable CD or Zip disk) that allows you to boot Linux on the Windows
> machine, and use Samba or NFS to export the Windows filesystem. You
> could then restore everything much as you would in #1 or #2. I've not
> tested this, but I'm 99.9% sure it could be made to work. It would be
> tricky to set up using only floppies, but if you've got a Zip disk or
> something similar, you could just do a minimal Linux install to it and
> have something working pretty quickly.
>4) Physically move the tape backup unit to the Windows box and use a Linux
> boot floppy (or other removable media boot device) to boot it up and do
> the restore locally. I've tested this, and it works.
>
>In ALL of these cases, you'll also probably have to boot a Windows floppy
>and do a SYS C: on the target system to get it to work. Depending upon
>how you partitioned the hard disk, you may need to use DOS/Windows FDISK
>to make the Windows partition active. I recommend using Windows' FORMAT
>utility to create the FAT filesystem on the target disk, since Linux's
>mkdosfs sometimes produces a filesystem that Windows doesn't like.
>
>> 2. Where would be the best place to place the tape drive? In the
>> Linux box, or the Win9x box?
>
>The Linux box. There are solutions that would let you put it in the
>Windows box, but they cost more, and AFAIK don't make life any easier.
>
>> 3. Is there any great benefit of having a SCSI tape drive over an
>> internal IDE tape drive for the support?
>
>If you get an external SCSI drive, it will be more easily transportable,
>if you decide to do #4, and if your other systems have SCSI. Otherwise,
>the main advantage is that you won't run out of ports for your devices as
>soon. (The system on which I'm typing this has five SCSI devices on one
>host adapter, for instance.) You can get higher-capacity SCSI tape drives
>than you can IDE drives, too. If you're only backing up a couple of
>machines, this may not be an issue, but it is if you've got, say, half a
>dozen or more.
>
>You may also want to look into compression options. Some mid-range and
>many high-end tape drives include compression in the drive itself. With
>low-end drives, the compression is handled by the host software. The main
>problem with the latter is that, if you use tar for your backups, it makes
>compression potentially unreliable. The way tar works, if you add
>compression (e.g., "tar cz" command), an error on restore in one file will
>abort the rest of the restore. If you have compression in the tape drive
>itself, though, you won't need to use compression in tar itself, and an
>error will just corrupt a single file, not the whole restore. If you're
>using software other than tar, this may not be an issue, though.
>
>> (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?)
>
>There is some support for some such drives, but I strongly recommend you
>avoid them. The parallel port just wasn't designed for this sort of
>access, and tends to be slow. Parallel-port drives also tend to be pretty
>low-end and unreliable. SCSI drives tend to be mid-range to high-end,
>while IDE drives tend to fall in the mid-range.
>
>> 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.
>
>If the sole purpose of the Linux box is to serve as a backup server, a
>Pentium 166 is quite adequate. What you need for this function is a good
>network and a good tape drive.
>
>--
>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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Roger Lewis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Re: Sharing Tape Drive Between Linux and Win9x via Ethernet: Possible?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:47:30 GMT
Thanks for the info.
On Sat, 01 May 1999 00:39:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
wrote:
>[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
>
>Check out www.amanda.org for a great GPL backup solution.
>
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Roger Lewis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zzoom)
Subject: IP Masq & Netmeeting
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:44:03 GMT
DOes Netmeeting work with IP Masq and If so What do I need to do? Web
browsing, ftp,telnet, irc, real audio work fine. The person that i
connect to sees me fine but I do not get any video back from them. ANy
clues? Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zzoom)
Subject: IP masq & netmeeting
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:38:00 GMT
Does netmeting work with IP masq and if so How do I set it up? Web
browsing, ftp, telnet, irc and real audoi work fine. What do I need to
do. Thanks.
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From: mike*no*spam*@yourhelpdesk.com (Michael Balderas)
Subject: Re: kicking specific users off
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:48:26 GMT
You could try killing their shell process.
Mike
On Sat, 01 May 1999 16:11:52 GMT, Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Is there a way to get rid of specific users (remote users) short of
>logging off everyone?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Pugmire)
Crossposted-To:
news.software.nntp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
Subject: DNEWS4 News Server Mthly Pointer to FAQ
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 01:01:25 GMT
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features and a pointer to the FAQ and binary areas.
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS (was Re: DSL)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 01:05:04 +0000
William McBrine wrote:
>
> In alt.os.linux David K. Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Unless you want to run DNS yourself (perhaps to support your own domain
> : name), you can do this quite handily by just making entries in
> : /etc/hosts, and then letting DNS run as a caching-only server;
>
> What I'd like to know is, is there a (simple!) way to run DNS as a caching
> server for the Internet, but also as an authoritative server for the LAN,
> i.e., taking the place of /etc/hosts? The reason I want to do this is that
> currently, whenever I add a machine to my LAN, I have to add it to the
> hosts file on every other machine (assuming I want them to know about it).
> It would be nice if I could update it in just one place.
'apropos yp'
Dan
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Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
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