Linux-Networking Digest #34, Volume #11 Tue, 4 May 99 03:14:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netscape "Looking for..." (Stagga)
IP-Masq and WS_FTP 6 (Matt Van Gundy)
Re: Samba and Win '98 ("Beastie")
Help: Can tcpdump capture a UDP datagram refragmented by IP layer? ("Witman Peng")
Dumb question (DB7654321)
Re: Suse 6.0 networking problem Help please (Derek Lucas)
Samba Server Disappeared from Network ("Van Belton")
Re: Dumb question ("Prasanth Kumar")
NDS logins on Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ipchains and transparent proxy (Thomas Zimmerman)
Re: Why ip-fw reject for IP's outside node's netmask? (Malware)
Strange problem with NFS and Linux (Michal Rolski)
Re: Samba and Win '98 ("Earl W. Harlow")
RH 5.2 to OS/2 Warp Server (SUNI III Home Pages Wazoo)
Re: Samba 2.0.3 won't start after update from 1.9.18p10 ("Robert Horlings")
Re: DNS hosting (Luca Filipozzi)
Re: Netscape "Looking for..." (Seth Ladd)
sniffit question (Mike)
Re: IP masquerading - blocking remote telnet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IP Load Balancing ("Curt")
ATM on FreeBSD or Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape "Looking for..." (Stagga)
Re: HELP - 3c589/Thinkpad 770X and ethernet random behavior... ("Sunil P. Khatri")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stagga)
Subject: Re: Netscape "Looking for..."
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:45:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My resolve.conf is set up correctly. I've come to find out everything
is working correctly, my problem is domains. For example, if I want
to go to www.netscape.com, if I type www.netscape.com I get a DNS
error, but if I type www.netscape.com's ip address then it works. How
do I get Linux to recognize domain names?
>
>Usually one sets them up in /etc/resolv.conf
>There you would put:
> search domain.com (your domain)
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Your dns ip address)
>
>Darren
>
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From: Matt Van Gundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP-Masq and WS_FTP 6
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:49:15 -0700
I use WS_FTP 6 on my Win 98 machine at work. We get our internet
connection through a RH 5.2 box which is connected to an ADSL line, and
does IP-Masquerading. I am able to connect to FTP sites through
netscape navigator, however, I cannot connect to these same sites
through WS_FTP. Has anyone encountered this problem, or a workaround?
Thanks,
Matt Van Gundy
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From: "Beastie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba and Win '98
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 19:56:46 -0500
it may instead be wiser to enable encrypted passwords in samba
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From: "Witman Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Help: Can tcpdump capture a UDP datagram refragmented by IP layer?
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:03:55 +0800
Hi there,
I am sorry to post this question again because I have not got any feedback
yet. My question is:
I use tcpdump or snoop to capture the UDP datagram on a specific UDP port.
But if the datagram is fragmented by IP layer, can I get all these fragments
or just the first fragment containing the UDP header? Any hints would be
appreciated.
BR,
Witman Peng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DB7654321)
Subject: Dumb question
Date: 4 May 1999 05:23:15 GMT
I am new to Linux, and networking and wondered: What the heck is ip
masquerading?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 18:08:53 -0400
From: Derek Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.0 networking problem Help please
On Sat, 1 May 1999, mike wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thank for taking the time to read this, maybe you can help
>
>
> My problem is seeing the rest of the network world. I can ping my own
> address but can't ping the router address or beyond. There are no error
> message printed to screen. so It probably is working to how I
> configured it but I don't know how I've configured it incorrectly.
>
>
>
> I've include most of files and outputs listed at back of book. I've
> tried to follow the Linux NET-3-HOWTO info when the original setup
> didn't work.
>
> Things that are a little different than out of the box.
>
> 1 - I'm using a matrox millenium g200 card and decided to try XiG
> xserver. It works and the default window flavor seems to be KDE. Yast
> appears to work but changes did seem to stick on reboot, ooorrrrr, I
> didn't do something to get changes to 'stay'.
>
*snip*
What'd I'd recommend, first, is getting rid of the "A.B.C.0" type of
naming. I'd recommend doing the following:
Set machines with local IP's of 10.0.0.x (10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, etc). The
following commands should set it up properly:
# ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 <-- assuming the Linux box will act as a router
# route add -net 10.0.0.0 dev eth0
# route add -host 10.0.0.1 dev eth0
This should let you ping between the machines, now, to share net access,
you'll need to get some IP masq. going. (again, this is assuming the
linux box will act as a router, and that you have ipmasq support compiled
into your kernel)
# ipfwadm -F -a accept -P all -S any/0 -D any/0 -m
*note: -S and -D arguments should be changed, that will allow any host,
to be able to ipmasq (just to be safe, change them).
Then all the machines should share the net connection that the linux box
has (whether it be dialup, ISDN, DSL, etc).
--
Derek Lucas
Systems Administrator
OneNet Communications, Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one.net
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From: "Van Belton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba Server Disappeared from Network
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 03:45:46 GMT
I now have the same problem. I have been running RH 5.2 with Samba for 3-4
months without any problems. All of a sudden, I can no longer see the Samba
server from windoz. I can ping, telnet, and run X sessions from the same
machine but no samba.
I say again,
THIS SETUP HAS WORKED FLAWLESSLY FOR 3-4 MONTHS AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON
EITHER SYSTEM.
I have verified all the configuration setting but have not been able to find
the problem.
Help, Help!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7gfg62$84f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a RedHat 5.2 machine running Samba(v 1.9.18p10-3). I edited the
> default smb.conf putting entries for the groupname, added a share, and
added
> some allowable hosts. I ran testparm, which found no errors, but I can't
see
> it on the network (I even ran a 'Find Computer...' for it w/ no success).
I
> can't map a drive to the share I created either. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Morgan Terry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "Prasanth Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dumb question
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 05:29:54 GMT
It basically allows you to have a group of computers share 1 ip address. One
computer connects upstream (like to a internet provider via a modem) and the
other computers are connected to it and share the ip address of that
computer.
To a person outside they all appear to come from the same ip address.
DB7654321 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am new to Linux, and networking and wondered: What the heck is ip
> masquerading?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NDS logins on Linux?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 05:22:53 GMT
Hi, I'm clueless about Netware so please forgive me if I don't use the right
terminology here. Anyway, I'm running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36) with ncpfs
2.2.0. I'm trying to login to a Netware 4.11 server that does logins with
NDS. I've read conflicting stuff on whether ncpfs 2.2.0 supports NDS logins.
Does it? If yes, how would I go about logging in? If no, is there another
software package that will let me do an NDS login with my current setup?
Thanks,
Lisa
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From: Thomas Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains and transparent proxy
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:34:19 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Garou wrote:
[snip other setup]
> 1) Set up chains
>
> ipchains -N ppp-out
> ipchains -A output -i ppp0 -j ppp-out
> ipchains -N ppp-in
> ipchains -A input -i ppp0 -j ppp-in
>
> 2) Drop incoming packets trying to look like my internal network
>
> ipchains -A ppp-in -s 192.168.0.0/24 -l -j DENY
You might want to add a DENY line for the private class A (10.x.x.x) and
class B (172.16.x.x) the may be trying to come over the ppp link.
> 3) Set up transparent proxy and allow local packets
>
> ipchains -A ppp-in -p TCP -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.0.0/24 -j REDIRECT
> ipchains -A input -i lo -j ACCEPT
[snip doesn't work stuff]
When I read you last line I translate it as "add to the input chain this
rule to ACCEPT any packet arriving on the interface lo." A nice rule but
maybe not what you wanted? I use masquerading here to allow the local
net to use my ppp link to the great beyond of the Internet. To use
Masquerading, use something like:
ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j DENY # catch any attempts to MASQ from
the beyond
ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ # MASQ the local net into the beyond
This is a simple setup, in all likelihood, prone to security risks. I
don't know how to fix that myself. Take a look at:
IPCHAINS-HOWTO
IP-Masquerading HOWTO
**!!** the Firewall HOWTO **!!**
Have a blast,
Qubes
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why ip-fw reject for IP's outside node's netmask?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:08:28 +0200
Hi Lew,
you wrote:
> (I don't know what mod level), and IPFWADM. His eth0 is connected to the @home
> cable modem, and his eth1 is connected to his internal lan. He has deny logging
> enabled (I don't have his ruleset handy to post).
[...]
> Apr 30 15:11:58 ZEA kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 UDP 192.168.0.1:68 255.255.255.255:67
>L=328 S=0x00 I=14680 F=0x0000 T=128
> Apr 30 15:12:04 ZEA kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 UDP 10.20.0.3:121 10.20.0.255:121
>L=50 S=0x00 I=62 F=0x0000 T=30
>
> Note that the rejected IP addresses are 10.20.0.3 and 192.168.0.1; neither are on his
> subnet.
IMHO such a broadband-cable network is a broadcast network. So it is
quite normal to see packets to various broadcast addresses. Especially
BOOTP/DHCP packets - as the first one I qouted - are likely to cross.
The other one does belong to "Encore Expedited Remote Pro.Call" (erpc) -
what ever this will be.
> Can anyone suggest why his TCP/IP stack is intercepting these packets??
Surely because they are sent as link-level broadcasts.
Malware
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From: Michal Rolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange problem with NFS and Linux
Date: 4 May 1999 06:01:42 GMT
We have encountered a strange problem while running a Linux 2.0.34
on a fairly old PC (486) as an NFS server for a large group of students.
There are no local users on the NFS server, it is only serving files.
The users access their files from several other machines, including
another Linux, a HP/UX 10.20 system, and SPARC's under Solaris 2.6.
The problem, most often seen on the Suns, occurs when a user tries
to create a file (or a symlink) in his own directory on the NFS system.
The request fails and the error message is something like
"Cannot access directory P" (where P is the file the user tried creating).
Repeating the action also fails, although trying another file name
(or several) suceeds in creating the file.
My question is: has anybody seen a similar problem, or something
resembling it? The problem occurs fairly often, and rebooting
does not help. We haven't tried reinstalling the server, since
outside of this there is no indication of any kind of trouble with
the system, quite heavily used. (The machine has a single 4GB IDE disk
and 32 MB of RAM. It typically shows 10-30% CPU load, half user,
half system).
--
Michal Rolski e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://netoskop.chip.pl/~rolski/
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From: "Earl W. Harlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba and Win '98
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 16:50:22 -0500
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Oops. Classic newbie mistake. I solved my own problem.
I found a post from a few days ago in alt.os.linux referencing the same
problem. I just logged onto a different news server that keeps the
posts a couple of days longer and found the answer. It was simply
that Win '98 does not, by default, accept plain text passwords as Win '95
does. I had to add a registry key to enable plain text passwords
and all is well.
<p>Sorry to clutter the board.
<br>
<p>"Earl W. Harlow" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have setup a Samba server and I have all of my
Windows '95 machines logging into it just fine. I can see both the
server and the workgroup in Network Neighborhood. If I want to log
into the Samba server, I double click on the server and the resulting dialog
box recognizes the user properly (from the Microsoft Client logon) and
asks for the users password. Once supplied, it logs on correctly.
<p>My problem is on the few Win '98 machines we have. The process
is the same. I can see both the workgroup and the Samba server in
Network Neighborhood. When I try to open the Samba server, it provides
the same dialog box asking for the password, but in Win '98, it sees the
machine as IPC$ instead of the user's logon name. Needless to say,
I cannot supply the users name anywhere and the password for the user does
not work, of course.
<p>Can anybody tell me what I need to change in Win '98 (registry or what)
so that it will supply the proper logon information to the Samba server?
<p>thanks
<p>Earl Harlow
<br>Weather Modification, Inc.</blockquote>
</html>
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From: SUNI III Home Pages Wazoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.2 to OS/2 Warp Server
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:59:52 GMT
I just got RedHat 5.2 up this weekend (easy! one manual install as a test,
and the second one via kickstart). I would like to connect it to my
server, running OS/2 Warp Server. I installed Samba and read through and
tried everything I could, but I cannot get past (Connection refused) with
smbclient. The line works (ping both ways) and the server works (shares
things fine over NetBEUI to a Win95 box). Maybe I'm not understanding
something, and someone out there can help. The docs seem to concentrate on
user-level shares, whereas my server is a Primary Domain Controller and
requires login.
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From: "Robert Horlings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.3 won't start after update from 1.9.18p10
Date: 26 Apr 1999 20:09:10 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Subject: Re: DNS hosting
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 16:37:29 -0700
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990503191412.2361A-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Does anyone know a place that will map a domain to a static ip for a
> reasonable price.
> thanks
>
> Tom Jaeger MCSE
> windowsnetworking.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Free:
soa.granitecanyon.com - poor quality, though (IMHO)
Cheap:
www.nols.com - looks very good... haven't actually used them
There are many others but these two are a good start.
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 06:09:14 -0400
From: Seth Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape "Looking for..."
> and not domain names? If so, how do I go about fixing it? I have my
> DNS name servers set up.
Maybe you don't have them setup. Try to resolve a name with the
nslookup command. Go to a prompt, and type nslookup. Once in that,
type www.netscape.com, or some well known name. If that returns with an
IP, then we know DNS resolving is working, and the problem lies
elsewhere.
Seth
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sniffit question
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:43:23 -0400
Hello,
I've been playing around with the sniffit packet sniffer and I have a
little problem. I can't figure out how to get it to monitor my loopback
interface. I'm working on some client/server stuff on the same machine
and would like to get a little more data than tcpdump can give, hence my
attempt with sniffit. It works great when I tell it to look at ppp but
refuses to watch 127.0.0.1. Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IP masquerading - blocking remote telnet
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 06:32:26 GMT
In article <7glk40$9c8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"mindspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just dont start the telnet service in your services. If you have RH... run
> setup and select services.
...or just comment out the telnetd line in /etc/inetd.conf, which is all that
stupid tool does for you anyway.
Tools that hide the inner workings of the system and don't make anything
easier should not be used. Editing a file is just as easy as using a GUI
tool, and gives a much better [and more portable] understanding of what's
going on. If you want your hand held, use some other OS.
-Bill Clark
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Load Balancing
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 18:54:28 -0500
There is traffic shaper but it is limited to transmitted traffic, not
incoming.
http://lwn.net/1998/1119/shaperdoc.html
For incoming traffic, load balancing usually has to do with having multiple
physical servers responding to the same name (do an nslookup on
www.yahoo.com). In the simplest case, this can be done via DNS, rotating
through few IP. The is more load sharing than load balancing, but on
average it works quite well.
According to
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/linux-ip-nat/diplom/node1.html there has
been alot of work towards load balancing with kernel 2.2. I haven't tried
any of it yet.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7gkrl3$erp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there Linux GURU's,
>
> i have a small problem, and i think you could help me with that.
>
> We have a 2 Mbps dedicated Internet Connection.
>
> I would like to be able to limit a ip-address / ip-range to a certain
> bandwith.
>
> Is this possible without buying a piece of hardware. ?? (costs: Fl
20.000,--)
>
> I believe Linux can do anything,
> so i think it can also do load-balancing.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Grtz
>
> Erik
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ATM on FreeBSD or Linux
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 06:31:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a Alcatel ADSL 1000 modem which talks to the PC via a
25mbps ATM connection. I would like to get the ADSL to work under
Linux or FreeBSD (so that I can telecommute using VPN).
Does 25mbps ATM card from Fore (ForeRunnerLe 25) or ENI
work under FreeBSD?
If so, what are the efforts required?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stagga)
Subject: Re: Netscape "Looking for..."
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 02:53:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That was just my mispelling, it is resolv.conf. BUT, I am using XISP
now, what should be set different so that my connection recognizes
domains? The Primary and Secondary DNSes are correct.
>> My resolve.conf is set up correctly.
>
>Computers are harder on misspellings than any newsgroup spelling flamer
>could be. Considering you have no DNS, did you really call it
>
>resolve.conf
> ^
>
>? Because resolver is looking for
>
>resolv.conf
> ^
>
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From: "Sunil P. Khatri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: HELP - 3c589/Thinkpad 770X and ethernet random behavior...
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 02:55:36 GMT
David Hinds wrote:
>
> Sunil P. Khatri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : > Is the 50% completely random?
> :
> : Yes, it occurs without any pattern. I have faced the problem for about
> : a month, and cant see any trends in the behavior...
> :
> : > Does "cardctl eject ; cardctl insert" or "cardctl reset" help?
> :
> : No it doesnt help. I ran the eject/insert sequence, and notice the same
> : erratic formation of connections.
>
> So, if the card doesn't work at first insertion, the eject/insert
> sequence has a 50% chance of resulting in a working configuration?
I havent tried the eject/insert sequence enough times to state that with
statistical confidence, but the eject/insert sequence initially resulted
in more successful initialization than not.
> Check the system log and verify that the card messages are identical
> both times (same hardware address, specifically).
I checked all initializations for the last day or so. There seem to be
5 separate hardware addresses that are listed (a1 - a5, say). a1 and a2
almost always result in successful initialization. a3, a4 and a5 always
result in failed initialization.
> What transceiver (10baseT or 10base2) are you using? Are you
> specifying it in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, or relying on the
> autodetection?
I use a 10baseT transceiver, which is autodetected correctly every time.
> You can also try the beta on csb.stanford.edu in /pub/pcmcia/NEW.
> I've been working on the 3c589 driver and it's possible that it might
> be more consistently initialized.
OK, I will give it a test-drive. Again, thanks for the quick and helpful
responses..
> -- Dave
Sunil
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