Linux-Networking Digest #129, Volume #11 Wed, 12 May 99 14:13:52 EDT
Contents:
Re: Modem status while on-line ("Curt")
Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP! (jan schrik)
Which is faster NFS or SMB? ("David Murray")
Re: dev/modem = dev/ttyS1 how? (Andrew Comech)
Linux as a "smart" firewall with VPN ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) ("Marcel A.")
Problems to establish CompuServe PPP connection (Michael Jastram)
Dial up PPP Server problem ("Chad Graham")
dhcpcd with 2.0.35 (Matt Bradley)
Re: SQUID PROBELM HELP!!! (Fabrizio Fresco)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netatalk - Cannot get write access to shared volumes?? (Robin Jackson)
Re: Question Regarding /var/log/secure file (mist)
Re: Reliable (!) nic for 2.2 kernel? (bryan)
Re: mounting NT filesystem (Vicente Mendez)
autofs and NIS (Marco Cerqui)
Re: How to configure Linux as a Proxy server ("Jan Johansson")
Syslog - /var/log/messages - How to Rotate ("Alexander Samad")
Re: newbie: set irq for eth0? (Mircea)
automount and nis yet again (Morgan Fruchtnicht)
Re: Two 3c509 Cards in one computer (Rob van der Putten)
Re: MediaOne Cable Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to configure Linux as a Proxy server ("David Murray")
NIS Problems (Michael Segulja)
Re: Another IP Masq... (cont'd) ("David Murray")
Re: dev/modem = dev/ttyS1 how? ("David Murray")
Re: Dial Up Server in Linux? ("David Murray")
Re: Samba Question ("David Murray")
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem status while on-line
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:50:02 -0500
You can have chat report it by adding 'REPORT' 'CONNECT'' to your chat
scripts.
This is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 in RH5.2
I'm not sure about average data throughput directly, but you could
calculated it from output of 'pppstats'.
David Adam Flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello!
>
> I'm using pppd and a USR 56K x2. While on-line, is there any way to
> find out at what speed the modem has connected, and what the average
> data thoughput is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David FloryI
>
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From: jan schrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,nl.comp.os.linux,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:24:25 +0200
> van Leur wrote in message <7h4o6p$l9d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >My modem is connected to COM3 in DOS/WINDOWS and works fine in Windows.
> >Bram van Leur
> >
> >P.S. Sorry for my bad English. I'm from Holland
> >
> Vanwege je slechte (nou ja 't viel wel mee) engels dan maar in het
> nederlands. Aangezien je modem op com3 hangt denk ik dat het een intern
> modem is, wat is het er voor een ? Als het een PCI modem is kan het een
> Winmodem zijn, dat si meestal herkenbaar doordat er voor het modem onder
> windhoos een stukje software wordt toegevoegd dat je dan in het
> configuratiescherm van windhoos terug vind en aan het feit dat het _alleen_
> maar PnP is (verder geen enkele jumper dus)
Mocht dit niet het geval zijn, dan moet je eens proberen wat Minicom met je
modem kan. als het niet geinitialiseerd wordt dan kun je het schudden en moet
je op zoek gaan naar een modem dat wel met linux samen kan werken, bijvoorkeur
een ISA exemplaar.
Als je RH goed ingesteld hebt staan en ervoor hebt gezorgd dat een eventueel
alternatief Irq ook in Linux geldt (ik kan me voorstellen dat Com1 en Com3 met
elkaar conflicteren) setserial /dev/ttySn irq x wil dit wel eens oplossen.
Zo moet het wel kunnen
Greetz
Jan
>
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which is faster NFS or SMB?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:50:01 GMT
I was thinking of ridding my network of NFS clients and servers and using
Samba and smbfs as my only network filesharing.. However, my smbmount
doesn't work since I upgraded kernels to 2.2.6 and I think I know why, I
need a newer version of smbmount.. but before I go through all the trouble
I was wondering if it is worth it.. Obviously it would make it easier since
the Windows boxes already use SMB and makes everything uniform but is there
any speed advantage?
--DavidM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: dev/modem = dev/ttyS1 how?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 03:34:57 -0500
On Tue, 11 May 1999 23:22:14 -0700, donnell wrote:
>new to linux using redhat 5.2 k2.0.36 on a i486
>What file can I manually edit to set /dev/modem = /dev/ttyS1. I have my
>modem set up on /dev/ttyS1 but on the modemtool, which sets up dev/modem I'm
>only given the choices of cua*. This is causing a problem when I try to use
>minicom because it looks for /dev/modem and also when I upgrade to the 2.2.x
>kernel
ln -sf /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
(both /dev/modem and /dev/mouse are just symlinks)
Actually, you have to be careful and use the same "name"
for your modem (let's say /dev/modem) in all applications which
use it, so that they would use the same lock file.
Otherwise you might end up accessing modem from two different
applications, and who knows what's gonna happen.
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux as a "smart" firewall with VPN
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:32:23 GMT
I am wanting to use my linux box as an in-between fro my client machines
and my DSL line. I know were to go for info on setting up firewalls and
such, but I have a monkey wrench to throw in. I need to access a PPTP
VPN from the client machines and I don't want to make them run the VPN
client on their machines.
Is there any way to make the Linux box automatically know, based on
subnet address or domain name, to direct traffic to the internet or to
the VPN (using the Linux VPN client). In other words, to the clients,
the VPN would be completely "black box" - they won't even know it's
there. (The login/passwd for the VPN is the same for all clients so I
have no problem with the Linux box "knowing" them)
This is for a home LAN - two or three clients on various platforms.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Eric Smalling
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From: "Marcel A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:52:52 +0200
Hello,
I can't connect my Linux box to my ISP. In dmesg I get a mesage saying
"diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)". What does it mean ? Is that the
source of my problem ? How
can I correct it ?
I use kernel 2.2.5.
...
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
...
diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
Thank you
Marcel
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:36:04 -0700
From: Michael Jastram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems to establish CompuServe PPP connection
Hey folks,
- I try to setup ppp on my machine, connecting to CompuServe (it's
a long story, but I am stuck with CompuServe, as they do some
hosting for me).
- I had ppp already running on my machine with another ISP
which was using static IP addresses.
- I use pppd 2.2 and Kernel 2.0.30 (redhat 4.2 distribution)
- My ppp-on script seems to work fine. The modem is dialing, I can
see in the log file that ppp-on-dialer is working properly, and
After runnin it, the last line in /var/log/messages is
May 11 23:32:49 hamburg pppd[827]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp1
This looks fine to me.
- running ipconfig doesn't list ppp0 at all, only lo
- running "ipconfig ppp0" produces this output:
[root@hamburg ppp]# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:0.0.0.0 P-t-P:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
POINTOPOINT MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
- subsequent calls will have continuously increasing numbers
for RC packets and TX packets.
- What strikes me is that not even "Mask" has a proper value.
- I don't use CHAP or PAP authentication
- Any ideas? All input is mostly appreciated!!!
- Michael
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From: "Chad Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial up PPP Server problem
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:28:52 GMT
Mgetty dial in working great.
PPP works but when I dial in from a windows 95 client using PPP it just
hangs up.
If I use a terminal window after dial in Win 95 I can log in and start PPP
and get an ip connection. How do I set it up so it is automatic for the
user?
Thanks in advance.
Chad
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From: Matt Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dhcpcd with 2.0.35
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:50:21 -0700
I can not for the life of me get dhcpcd working. I'm running Slackware
3.6 with a 2.0.35 kernel. I get the error message "dhcpStart: socket:
Invalid argument" in the dhcpcd log file. I'm using dhcpcd 1.3.17-pl6.
I can't seem to find the older .7 version anywhere. Thanks for any
help.
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From: Fabrizio Fresco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID PROBELM HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:14:25 +0200
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Marcin Nikolajuk wrote:
>
> hi all there,
> i have a strange problem with squid:
> when i start squid manually typing squid on the console,
> and connect with a client, browsing is only possible for a few seconds and
> sites, then squids stops with following error:
>
> FATAL: file_write: bad FD
> Aborted
>
> or sometimes with:
>
> FATAL: storeUnlockObject: bad swap_status
> Aborted
>
> sometimes squid fails to start at startup, sometimes not (i start it with -D
> (no dns lookup))
> this is really a problem for me, since the server has to be ready until
> thursday...
> if somebody could help, please email or post in this group.
> i have suse linux 6.0, kernel 2.0.36
> and squid is 1.1 stable
>
> thank you,
> marcin nikolajuk
> -
> vienna austria.
Check the file permission of the cache directory.
If you roun Squid as user nobody the permission must be rw for this user
try chown -R nobody.nogroup "cachedir"
If the problem persist contact me.
Bye
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Sviluppo Prodotti e Servizi - Architetture e Soluzioni Infrastrutturali
Sigma S.p.a Via A.Marchetti 111 Roma
Tel: +390665964274
Fax: +390665748520
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:00:53 GMT
Same problem but I'm using KDE.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought I might share my bad as well:
>
> Upgraded to RH 6.0 from 5.9.7 - Everything seemed to go well. I
logged in,
> started X and was in Gnome. After a few minutes of using it (had some
> terminals open, netscape had been open/closed, etc) I tried to start
another
> terminal, and it wouldn't work...Tried to start netscape, no go.
Tried to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Netatalk - Cannot get write access to shared volumes??
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:15:13 +0100
Hi
I installed Netatalk, I think!!!!
Certainly I cannot see a STANDARD Appleshare volume BUT I can see my Linux
box if I put in its TCP/IP address.
However the only share I have read/write access too is my home directory.
I want however everyone to have full read/write access to a spare disk.
Although Netatalk SHOWS this it comes up as read only.
HOW do I change this for everyone?????
Robin
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question Regarding /var/log/secure file
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:37:01 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Terrence Coccoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>I noticed that there is the following entry in this file:
>
>May 2 22:22:57 teesmachine in.telnet[504]: connect from 12.220.47.110
>
>I have a ppp connection to the internet and my question is did someone
>from the above named ip address try to telnet into my computer ?
Yes.
> Was he
>successful ?
Yes.
> How did he determine my ip address, since it is generated
>randomly by my ip provider ?
Maybe it was a random scan, and s/he happened to notice that your
machine was open. Has it happened again since? Are you sure it wasn't
yourself telneting into your own machine?
Go into /etc/inetd.conf and disable any services you don't need by
putting a # in front of them, then restart inetd with
kill -HUP `pidof inetd`
"services you don't need" is anything that you know you don't need, and
anything that you aren't sure if you need it or not. Chances are you
can comment out practically everything that is open.
For the rest, you should check
/etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow
and make sure that they are set up properly. Assuming you are using TCP
wrappers. (You can tell if you are because the entries in
/etc/inetd.conf will look like -
blah blah blah /sbin/tcpd blah
or similar. )
Read the man pages for hosts.access and related things.
Basically, since someone has been inside your system and may have
compromised it, the safest thing to do is to remove and reinstall the
entire system. If you haven't done much with it yet, that may be your
best option.
--
Mist.
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reliable (!) nic for 2.2 kernel?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:34:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: > Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: > >> : there's a 10/100 switch which i have set to 100.
: > >>
: > >> sounds like a single mode hub (choose 1: 10 or 100, and everyone on
: > >> the hub MUST speak that speed. right?)
: > >
: > >yes. exactly.
: > >
: > [...]
: > >i only have 2 computers. they are both in 100/full duplex mode.
: >
: > If you are using a hub you have to use half duplex. Full duplex
: > only works with switches.
: ok thanks! i didn't know that.
and its not universally true - so don't believe it. it depends on the
implementation. there are no hard and fast rules on network gear
anymore - each vendor tries to differentiate themselves.
: does full duplex mode work with a direct cross-over cable?
of course.
: --
: johan kullstam
--
Bryan
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From: Vicente Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting NT filesystem
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:26:11 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes you can, but read only. There is a module you can load. Do a search
on the web and you should find it.
Vicente
Kostis Mentzelos wrote:
>
> Hi, how can I mount a NT filesystem without using samba?
>
> Kostis Mentzelos.
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From: Marco Cerqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autofs and NIS
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:43:28 +0200
Hi
I'm using SuSE Linux 6.1 . I have set up a NIS Server. Now I want to
work with the autofs-automounter. It works great, but I dont wont to
copy the auto.misc-map on ever client. There is a posibility to
distribute it with NIS, but I dont know how !
Can somebody help me ?
Thanks
Marco
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to configure Linux as a Proxy server
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:34:51 +0200
ipchains for generic masquerading, and Squid if you want a webproxy (which
may very well speed up common pages)
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From: "Alexander Samad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux,it.comp.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Syslog - /var/log/messages - How to Rotate
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:09:28 +0100
How do I organise to rotate these or limit there size. I have just pointed
some of our network devices (Cisco Routers + Catalyst) to syslog to my linux
box and boy do they start to fill it up.
Also how can I get the messages from say a specific router placed into its
own file or directory
Thanxs
AlexS
Can you also email please
--
Alex Samad
Pareto Partners
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: set irq for eth0?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:51:59 -0400
Use ifconfig. For info, man ifconfig.
MST
donnell wrote:
>
> new to linux running redhat 5.2 k2.0.36 on an i486
> I want to change my ethernet card to irq 10, I have set the cards eeprom to
> use 10, now I need to configure it in redhat. I was previously using irq 3
> but wanted to free irq 3 for an old modem I have. I've tried setting the irq
> to 10 using the linuxconf under basic host information but the system
> doesn't recognize the change when I reset the irq value to 10. It still
> wants to use 3 after usng the accept button. What file(s) can I edit
> manually to reset this value?
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:42:44 -0500
From: Morgan Fruchtnicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automount and nis yet again
I know this is a common question, but I can't find an answer! :(
I'm trying to get automount to work with an nis map.
nis servers and solaris and the clients are all aix and linux.
Nis works great, all the maps are available, but the problem for
me and apparently everyone else is that automount doesn't work
with the nis provided map. I have gotten linux automounter to
sieze control of /home (lost my home dir in the process. doh!)
but it still doesn't mount the directories! Any help anyone
can give would be greatly appreciated.
Morgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two 3c509 Cards in one computer
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:17:31 +0200
Hi there
On 12 May 1999, Jonathon wrote:
> options 3c509 0x210,0x300
try options 3c509 io=0x210,0x300
And make sure you don'r have any io or irq conflicts.
irq 3 for instance is used by com2
Regards,
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MediaOne Cable Modem
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:26:14 GMT
> From: Scott Nagle
> To: Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: mediaone express with Linux
>
> I realize that. I am not asking for a guarantee. I just want to know
> if anyone is successfully using MediaOne Express with the Linux
> operating system. I know there are members of your technical support
> team who use Linux. Please ask them if they can use MediaOne Express
> with Linux.
>
> I am NOT looking for help in setting it up.
>
> I will NOT hold MediaOne responsible if I cannot set it up.
>
> I am simply trying to determine if it can be done.
>
> ---Scott
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Technical Support wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> MediaOne Express is unable to provide anymore information concerning
> this
> topic.
>
> Thomas
> MediaOne Express
> Technical Support
>
> Central Region (Chicagoland)
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone: (630) 716-2800
> M-F 8am-12am, Sa 8am-8pm, Su 8am-5pm
> After Hours: Voice Mail Available
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Scott Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just thought you all might be interested in the _stellar_ exchange
I've
> just had from the MediaOne technical service folks. I emailed asking
if
> it were possible to use their service with Linux.
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> From: Scott Nagle
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:29 AM
> Subject: mediaone express with Linux
>
> I am a medical researcher and would like to telecommute a few days a
> week using your cable internet connection. However, I need to use
> the Linux operating system to do my work. Is it possible to set up
> MediaOne Express under a Linux operating system?
>
> ---Scott Nagle
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Technical Support wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> MediaOne Express requires a supported operating system for the
> installation
> to commence. Supported operating systems include Windows 95/98/NT.
> MediaOne Express will not install our service on an unsupported
> operating
> system.
>
> Thomas
> MediaOne Express
> Technical Support
>
> Central Region (Chicagoland)
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone: (630) 716-2800
> M-F 8am-12am, Sa 8am-8pm, Su 8am-5pm
> After Hours: Voice Mail Available
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> From: Scott Nagle
> To: Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: mediaone express with Linux
>
> I realize that your staff will not install the service on
non-supported
> operating systems. However, my question is whether it is _possible_
to
> use your service with Linux. I am not asking MediaOne to help install
> it. I am only asking if it is possible to do so on my own. I am sure
> there are a number of employees on your technical support staff who
use
> Linux. Perhaps one of them could answer this question. Thank you.
>
> ---Scott
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Technical Support wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> MediaOne Express does not guarantee that our service will run on an
> unsupported operating system.
>
> Thomas
> MediaOne Express
> Technical Support
>
> Central Region (Chicagoland)
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone: (630) 716-2800
> M-F 8am-12am, Sa 8am-8pm, Su 8am-5pm
> After Hours: Voice Mail Available
>
> -------------------------------------------------
Joining in the fray:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: lack of Linux support
You are probably tired of hearing this - from a search of newsgroups, it
looks like thie will not be the first message you've gotten on the
subject.
I am also disappointed in the lack of support for Linux at MediaOne
Express in Chicago. I have your service at home, it runs well when I
run Win98, and could very well run on Linux if I could get basic
information from Media One. It seems that other areas of the country do
not have this problem. Why is MediaOne Chicago ignoring this growing OS
market? Many people really interested in computers and fast, 24-7
access are going to be interested in Linux - the basic home user is more
likely to be happy with AOL and a phone modem, since they mostly just
use e-mail and basic web shopping pages.
Knowing the enthusiasm of this comunity, I bet you could get a couple of
volunteers to support other Linux users on MediaOne in Chicago - they
would just need your support to get going. Has anyone considered this as
a reasonable solution?
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I hope we can get other area users to e-mail MediaOne Chicago about
this. It's absolutely stupid! The amount of support I asked for was a
4-minute phone call with an actual tech person (as opposed to the
customer service people.) But, it's "against policy.."
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure Linux as a Proxy server
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:58:43 GMT
What you need is IPMasquerading. if you go to www.linux.org, then go to
support/how-to you will find a document on it.. However, I just got
through spending about 24 hours making this work because there are a few
tiny (but very important) things these documents leave out.. If you are
running a stock RedHat 5.x or Slackware 3.4 or older feel free to email me
and I can help you out with it.. If it is any other form of Linux or if you
are using a kernel in the 2.2.x series then I have no idea so better ask
somebody else..
Witman Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7hbc9g$3b5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi, All
>
> I have a Linux box and several Windows machine. I want to all PC can
access
> Internet via the Linux box. The Linux box connect to the IPS via a POTS
> modem. Which software should I use? Thanks in advance.
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From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NIS Problems
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:00 GMT
I'm having trouble setting up a NIS server. It's at home, and I'm at
work, so I don't have the exact error messages, but I can explain what's
happening. I'm trying to build the NIS databases following the
NIS-HOWTO, and I'm running /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m. rpcinfo shows ypserv
running. It says that it is entering the directory /var/yp/nis.domain
and running make, and then says there is no rule for make in
/var/yp/ypservers. It looks like this relates to the Makefile under the
make all: section, because if I removed ypservers from the list, it will
give me an error on the next listing under make all:. Anybody have any
idea what the problem is? It tells me that make failed, so try building
the database by hand, but I don't know how to do that. I tried running
makedbm with the same switches that the Makefile has, but that doesn't
look like it does anything.
Thank you very much for your help.
Michael Segulja
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another IP Masq... (cont'd)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,udel.linux
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:32:07 GMT
Check /etc/sysconfig/network and make certain IP forwarding is turned on.
--DavidM
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dev/modem = dev/ttyS1 how?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:04:47 GMT
As simple as it sounds to Linux-gurus... symlinks really baffled me at
first. They are like windows-shotcuts except on the command line.. see,
there is no such thing as /dev/modem.. so what you want to do is have the
file /dev/ttyS1 get called whenever a program looks for /dev/modem. You
could always direclty copy the file and have it use the name of /dev/modem,
but this is inefficient. So, just make a symbolic link using the ln
command (or Midnight Commander) from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 and it should
work! The /dev/mouse and /dev/cdrom are pretty much the same idea.
--DavidM
donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7hb6q7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> new to linux using redhat 5.2 k2.0.36 on a i486
> What file can I manually edit to set /dev/modem = /dev/ttyS1. I have my
> modem set up on /dev/ttyS1 but on the modemtool, which sets up dev/modem
I'm
> only given the choices of cua*. This is causing a problem when I try to
use
> minicom because it looks for /dev/modem and also when I upgrade to the
2.2.x
> kernel
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial Up Server in Linux?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:34:51 GMT
Dial up server? You need to be more specific? Do you want people to
dial-in and connect to this box? Do you want this box to dial out and
connect to an ISP? Are you needing this machine to be a router for the
rest of the network? In either of these cases, YES.. it comes with what
you need.. However, I am not going to explain how to setup each
circumstance so you need to say what it is you want to do.
--DavidM
Ankit Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I recently installed RH ver 5.2. I would like to know if it comes with a
> dial-up server and if s how to configure it. If not is there any free
> dial-up server available for linux.
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:07:16 GMT
Well, you will need to edit the file /etc/smb.conf with a text editor. Go
through all of the selections and change the things you need.. You will
need to add some shared-folders to the list.. and change your workgroup
name.. It should work fine as RedHat 5.2 has Samba 95% setup for you
already. If samba ever appears to die on you, try reading the log files
under /var/log/samba and see why so you can correct the problems.
--DavidM
Thunderbolt19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am using Redhat 5.2. How can I configure Samba so that I can use the
> Linux box as a fileserver for my Windows PC's? I can see it thru the
browse
> list now... It shows up as "mygroup". Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
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