Linux-Networking Digest #156, Volume #11 Fri, 14 May 99 16:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Roumen Petrov)
Re: PCI Modem - lost cause? ("Roberto Leibman")
I have a PCI NE200 card but...... ("John Smith")
Re: how to > network to internet ("David Murray")
Re: Using two netmasks on one machine? ("Erols")
Re: pap authentication failure Help.. ("Burton")
Re: get client machine's IP-address (Barry Margolin)
Ethernet Woes (Ben Whalley)
Route table ("Chris G.")
Re: ping responds with "unknown protocol icmp" (Jim McDonagh)
Re: Masq. Problem (Remco van den Berg)
autofs again (morgan)
RE: ftp through a proxy (Jaussaud Vincent)
Re: Masq. Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SMC etherpowerII problem in RH6 ("Scott M. Grim")
Null Cable For Ethernet (mike)
Re: Mounting Root Filesystem over NFS (Wiz)
Re: how do I dial into my linux box? (Wiz)
Re: 3C509B NIC Problem...try this .... (marco tephlant)
Re: I need help. "Bringing up eth0" Fails! (Peter Dawes)
Configuring IPv6 (Morten Lund)
Re: isp's fair use policy (Finn Wilcox)
Re: Null Cable For Ethernet (Jamie)
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From: Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:10:14 GMT
In article <7hh9qd$549$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We are preparing to replace our Netware file server with a Linux
> > system running Samba. We considered an NT server, but Linux is what
> > we know and love.
> >
> > I see one shortcoming under Samba, and I know there has to be a way
> > around it.
> >
> > Under Netware, when the Win 9x client would login to the Netware
> > server, it would execute a login script, which would map the drives.
> >
> > Similar capabilities exist under NT.
> >
> > Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
> > client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server
is
> > down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
> > you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
> > "No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
> >
> > How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in
Win
> > 9x that remap the drives for us?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Lee Allen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> This is some of global options from my smb.conf:
> logon script = %U.bat
> path = /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon
> logon path =
> logon drive = V:
> logon home = \\%N\%U
> domain logons = Yes
OOPS
corect is:
[global]
logon script = %U.bat
logon path =
logon drive = V:
; this is default :logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = Yes
#other options ...
[netlogon]
comment = Logon server share
path = /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon
writeable = no
guest ok = no
>
> Go in /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon and make BATCH files for users:
> my rumen.bat:
> @echo OFF
> if ~%USERNAME% ne ~ goto winNT
>
> :win9x
> echo Hello Windows-9x user !
> rem Manual map user home for W-9x:
> net use V: /DELETE /YES > nul
> net use V: \\<MY_SAMBA_SERVER>\rumen /YES > nul
> goto end
>
> :winNT
> rem W-NT map by default user homes:
> rem Options from smb.conf:
> rem logon drive = V:
> rem logon home = \\%N\%U
> echo Hello %USERNAME% on Windows-NT !
> goto end
> :end
>
> In this time i have problem with roaming profiles under NT.
> ( options logon path = \\%N\%U\profile ). This work perfect some time,
> but after some preinstallation of NT, NT try to make every time a new
> local copy of roaming profile to local disk. I become over 10 local
> profiles for 1 user (a NT bug).
>
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From: "Roberto Leibman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI Modem - lost cause?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:37:44 -0700
So, all this talk about winmodems, sounds like a challenge to an experienced
linux driver programmer out there! Isn't it just a matter of figuring out
what the modem is expecting the OS to do? Is anyone working on this? I'd do
it myself if I wasn't a total newbie (< 1 month) at linux!
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Talaria Research, Inc.
http://www.talaria.com
Cxi tioj opinioj ne necese estas la opinioj de la administrantaro
michael sulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey there, just installed Redhat 5.1, no real troubles except for the
> modem...
>
> it's a 56K v.90 PCI modem, and it has no UART - so i'm not sure how to
> get it to work... i've seen discouraging things here and there, but was
> wondering if anyone knows of drivers being worked on or anything else
> that might help me get it going...
>
> it's a PCtel chipset, built by Newcom, ATI3 responds "PCtel 7.61MS" in
> case anyone cares ;)
>
> thanks for any help you might offer...
> michael
> (and yeah i know, external modem. what the hell was i thinking?)
>
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I have a PCI NE200 card but......
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 05:50:38 -0700
Hi.
I've already posted a message yesterday on this but I wanted to have some
points clarified.
I wanted linux to probe for both an ISA NE2000 and a PCI NE2000
I've been told to enter those parameters at the boot prompt:
ether=IRQ,IO,eth0 ether=IRQ,IO,eth1
The only little problem that I'm facing is that I'm using an UMSDOS system
(Linux is on a W95 partition) and I use Loadlin to boot the kernel. Is there
a way to add extra parameters to the loadlin command line so that my PCI and
ISA cards work fine?
My isa card is assigned to eth0 by this line in /etc/rc.dr/c.modules:
/sbin/modprobe ne 0x240
My pci card is detected by my linux system when I make a:
cat /proc/pci
But how to make linux point to this ethernet PCI card as eth1? Could someone
help me? please?
Thank you in advance.
John Smith
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to > network to internet
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:23:31 GMT
You can do all of the things you asked about, but IP Masquerading is the
only one I am familiar with. Check www.linux.org and the how-to section
under "support" for help on all the above.
Martin Haaksema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have a local LAN (IP) an one internet account.
> I'd like to connect all my LAN PC's to the internet via LINUX
> Is it possible? and can I use my LINUX machine as an EMAIL server
(batched
> POP / SMTP)
>
> What should I do? Thanks in advance
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From: "Erols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using two netmasks on one machine?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:07:59 -0400
Do you have two NICs installed? That would be an easy solution...
Check the how-to files....it's pretty straight forward
Curt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:75y_2.1224$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It should work.
> Do you have forwarding on? Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/network
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7he4f4$sak$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I currently have a Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Kernel 2.2.7) installed, but I
> > have a problem that I cannot get it to respond to two IP addresses on
> > two networks. Well...I don't know how to do it.
> >
> > There are two networks, and I want my machine to be visible on both of
> > them. I have tried IP Aliasing, but that only gives you an option for
> > extra IP addresses and not Netmasks. Is there a way to respond to two
> > Netmasks?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Terence.
> >
> >
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From: "Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pap authentication failure Help..
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:49:21 -0600
That fixed.
Thanks everybody for all the help. I appreciate it.
Burton Lape
Bill Unruh wrote in message <7hf4lh$a7p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In <7hesrp$9ri$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>How do I go about changing asyncmap ??
>
>asyncmap 0xa0000
>as an option to pppd (read man pppd)
>
>
>>and i have debug and kdebug 1
>>options turned on. all messages of that nautuer get logged to
>>/var/log/messages
>
>But you do not have the logging turned on in syslog.conf.
>daemon.* /var/log/messages
>killall -1 syslogd
>
>However the kdebug option is almost certainly not needed.
>
>
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From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.programming,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: get client machine's IP-address
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:24:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm in a telnet session to my unix host (Linux, if it makes a difference),
>and I enter the "who am i" command. My unix host replies with
> srdscs05!pitchl ttyp1 May 14 13:03 (49.21.20.105)
>and I note that the IP address in parenthesis is the IP address of my
>Windows NT client machine (from which I telnet to unix).
>
>OK, how does 'who' determine that IP address? Could that technique
>(what ever it is) be used to answer this thread's original question?
"who" gets it from /etc/utmp, which is where login stores it, based on the
-h parameter passed by telnetd.
However, if reverse DNS is configured for the client address, this will
contain the hostname, not the IP address. And on most systems the field is
only 16 characters, so if the hostname is longer than that it will be
truncated.
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From: Ben Whalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Ethernet Woes
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:26:03 +0100
this is a copy of a message i sent to a couple of friends to try to
solve some network probs i am having, i am seriously despairing here, so
if anyone can help, please please mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with any ideas.
My PCs are both i386's running slightly modified RH linux 5.1, the rest
of the details are below....
thanks,
Ben
Hi mate,
Here is the basic setup that i have got as far as the ethernet is
concerned :
I have two PCs which i am trying to connect, Revelstone (IP address
192.168.134.2) and anna (192.168.134.1) both part of the network
.ambernet ie. revelstone.ambernet and anna.ambernet.
I have two, 3com 3c509b ISA 10base-T Etherlink-III cards, one in each PC
with a patch cable linking them. I am not using a hub etc since i only
want to connect the two PCs via a twisted pair patch cable.
I purchased a pre-assembled patch cable, the integrity of which i
verified vs. the directions in the Linux Ethernet-HOWTO and the cable is
fine.
Both PCs are currently running Redhat Linux 5.1, kernel ver 2.2.7.
The ethernet cards are plug'n play disabled (using the 3com pnpdsabl
utility) and at boot time show up as the correct card ID (the driver is
monolithically compiled into the kernel, i am not using modules). They
both show as :
irq : 10 i/o addr : 0x300
which is the correct default for the 3c509b and after doing a 'cat
/proc/interrupts' there is no irq conflict at irq 10, although i am not
sure if the i/o addr is ok. I think it is, since an ifconfig gives the
card the right inet address etc which i assume would not work if the i/o
addr was wrong.
The built-in LEDs on the cards which, according to the manual, go off if
the card is faulty, or if the wiring is faulty are fine, they stay on
all the time. The cards respond, as i used Donald Becker's 3c5x9setup
util to try changing the programmed irq on one of the cards, and this
worked, so revelstone's eth0 card now has an irq of 7, which again
doesn't conflict with anything else.
The only command being issued to the card to setup the interface is :
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.134.2
which then gives me the folowing output from ifconfig :
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:115 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:12535 dropped:115 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:32:24:8E
inet addr:192.168.134.2 Bcast:192.168.134.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:1494 dropped:15 overruns:0
Interrupt:7 Base address:0x300
which shows the right inet address, correct irq and i/o address.
Anna (the other PC) is configured in the the same way, and gives the
same response, albeit with a different inet address (obviously). I get
these TX errors in the ifconfig output and get no response from 'ping'
or telnet from either host.
I have previously been running a PPP link via a null modem cable between
these two PCs with no problems, so the name resolution etc is, AFAIK ok,
but the ethernet just wont work :(
I have waded through the Ethernet-HOWTO and am sure that the cards are
ok, i have checked the patch cable with a meter and that's fine, so what
gives ?
I don't need any routing since i only have to worry about comunication
between two hosts, so i cannot fathom what the problem is.
/var/log/messages gives no indication of any problems with either the
driver loading at boot time, and there is no SIO##### error messaging
with the ifconfig command etc.
I am basically stumped as to why i cant get a connection here....anyone,
any ideas at all !!!! PLEASE !
Ben
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From: "Chris G." <no spam>
Subject: Route table
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:48:24 -0400
Is there any limit to the routing table on Red Hat 5.2 running on a 486? I
am runnig out of config mem on my gateway router for static routes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim McDonagh)
Subject: Re: ping responds with "unknown protocol icmp"
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:13:02 GMT
On Fri, 14 May 1999 12:55:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim McDonagh) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a little DragonLinux installation. I can telnet and such out
>> to the network over an ethernet card but I cannot ping.
>>
>> When i ping it responds with unknown protocol icmp. Where does that
>> get setup?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> jim mcdonagh
>>
>>
>yup, i think i found it
>check your /etc/protocols
>should have a line like this:
> icmp 1 icmp ( plus maybe some comment here )
>see if its there and add it if not
>
>
>
>
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Thanks, that worked great. In the dragonlinux 7.5 the /etc/protocols
file wasn't there. I added the one line and ping now works.
thanks,
jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Subject: Re: Masq. Problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:05:47 GMT
On Fri, 14 May 1999 13:25:55 -0400, Greg wrote:
>Type modprobe -l and you should see something like.
>
>/lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o
>/lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_irc.o
>
>Have you done the, make modules , make modules_install ?
>
>This maybe the problem I'm willing to bet it is trying to return the
>directory list to the default ip of the box doing the ftp which may
>give you a port error and not give a directory list.
>
>Just a rookie myself, but this may stir up a better answer . :)
ftp uses two ports: 1 for communication, 1 for data :
root@jupiter 551> cat /etc/services | grep ftp
ftp-data 20/tcp
ftp 21/tcp
That explains which masquerading port 21 (ftp) is not enough.
-Remco
>
>Greg.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>When using the following command :
>>(sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -m $INET -P tcp -S 172.19.12.89/32 -D $ANY
>>ftp) I can masq. to a remote site and login fine, but when the FTP
>>program tries to retrieve a directory listing a get a DoDirList(0)
>>error? Any ideas? I only want to Masq. the FTP protocol Redhat Linux
>>5.0 kernel 2.0.36 If I remove the word ftp from the end of the command
>>(which means allow all tcp stuff) then it works fine. However I do not
>>want the client machine to have that ability.
>>
>>Thank You,
>>William
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:59:41 -0500
From: morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autofs again
May 14 12:56:35 biskit automount[369]: starting automounter version
3.1.1, path = /home, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.home
May 14 12:56:36 biskit automount[369]: >> mount: automount(pid369)
already mounted or /home busy
May 14 12:56:36 biskit automount[369]: /home: mount failed!
Is what gets logged when I try to start up autofs. Whenever the machine
gets rebooted it automagically creates dirs in /home.... There is
nothing
in home, nothing mounted there, and I am not in /home or anything like
that. argh. help please!
Morgan
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From: Jaussaud Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: ftp through a proxy
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
To connect an FTP server, using the FTP Protocol, through a Proxy, you
often have to do it in PASV Mode (especially if the FTP Server run on
another port than 21). It worked fine in normal mode with an HTTP
Browser, because the ftp session is done in HTTP mode. PASV Mode is
supported by iglooFTP and many others.
You can find it at: www.littleigloo.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Masq. Problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:20:37 GMT
On Fri, 14 May 1999 19:05:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco
van den Berg) wrote:
>On Fri, 14 May 1999 13:25:55 -0400, Greg wrote:
>>Type modprobe -l and you should see something like.
>>
>>/lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o
>>/lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_irc.o
>>
>>Have you done the, make modules , make modules_install ?
>>
>>This maybe the problem I'm willing to bet it is trying to return the
>>directory list to the default ip of the box doing the ftp which may
>>give you a port error and not give a directory list.
>>
>>Just a rookie myself, but this may stir up a better answer . :)
>
>ftp uses two ports: 1 for communication, 1 for data :
>
>root@jupiter 551> cat /etc/services | grep ftp
>ftp-data 20/tcp
>ftp 21/tcp
>
>That explains which masquerading port 21 (ftp) is not enough.
>
>-Remco
>
>>
>>Greg.
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>When using the following command :
>>>(sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -m $INET -P tcp -S 172.19.12.89/32 -D $ANY
>>>ftp) I can masq. to a remote site and login fine, but when the FTP
>>>program tries to retrieve a directory listing a get a DoDirList(0)
>>>error? Any ideas? I only want to Masq. the FTP protocol Redhat Linux
>>>5.0 kernel 2.0.36 If I remove the word ftp from the end of the command
>>>(which means allow all tcp stuff) then it works fine. However I do not
>>>want the client machine to have that ability.
>>>
>>>Thank You,
>>>William
>>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>
>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer :-)
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Thank You that fixed the problem. I appreciate all the responses.
William
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From: "Scott M. Grim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC etherpowerII problem in RH6
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:01:23 -0400
We're running kernel 2.2.5 and 2.2.7 under RH6.0 with the SMC Etherpower II
and haven't had any problems. We just selected the included EPIC/100
driver.
--
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Director of Systems Engineering
Calltech Communications, Inc.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7hd6gk$677$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> Has somebody figured out how to get the networkcard SMC EtherpowerII
> (SMC9432TX) working in RedHat6? In redhat 5.2 I didnt encounter any
> problems when I used kernel 2.2.2, and the EXPERIMANTAL EPIC100 driver.
> I have tried the kernel 2.2.2 in RH 6.0 but i still cant get it working
> :-(
>
> Any help would be really nice
>
> Peter
>
>
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Null Cable For Ethernet
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 03:06:35 -0400
I have heard that one can modify a standard twisted pair ethernet
cable to allow two computers to connect with each other without
using a hub. Can one purchase such a cable. Is a " patch cable "
such a cable?
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiz)
Subject: Re: Mounting Root Filesystem over NFS
Date: 14 May 1999 10:47:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12 May 1999 21:48:51 GMT, Tobias Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Kernel start correctly, but when it comes to
>mount its Root-Filesystem from the Server it only
>says : NFS-Server 192.168.1.1 not responding, still
> trying.
It seems to me that the NFS server is down -- you might try to mount an
exported directory from the server to the server to see if it is configured
correctly. Sometimes I've had strange deadlocks, resulting in the inability to
mount NFS exports even on the server.
>I compiled the Kernel for the Workstation with
>Root-Device=/dev/nfs and
>used the netboot-package to build the bootimage.
This seems definitely correct, since I've followed the same procedure and it
works for me.
>The Workstation doesn�t seem to send a request
>to the Server and I didn�t know what I have
>forgotten or done wrong.
This, on the other hand, is strange indeed. Maybe should you check if all the
hardware settings are ok? Perhaps it is a misconfiguration in the kernel or
something like that...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiz)
Subject: Re: how do I dial into my linux box?
Date: 14 May 1999 10:40:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 May 1999 03:00:09 GMT, Tjalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to know how I would go about having my modem in my linux machine
>pick up an incomming call, and allow a terminal, connection /ppp connection
>( whatever the correct terminology is).
>the modem is connected to /dev/cua1, and I have PPP support in the kernel...
I just figured it out some days ago, and it's not even that hard to do: just
install mgetty, compiled with the -DAUTO_PPP option, edit it's login.config
file to suit your needs (i.e.: fire up pppd with the correct parameters once
mgetty answers the call), add an entry in /etc/inittab so that mgetty can
"respawn", and there you are. From now on, mgetty will automatically recognize
what kind of program is calling in (a ppp client, a terminal, or even a
FidoNet BBS or point), and start up the appropriate server. Watch out how your
pppd is configured, though: if you have a DNS, things can get a bit (I mean, a
LOT) tricky because of a bug in pppd. There's a workaround which you can find
on Debian's site, looking for bug #35793 -- I got it working yesterday night.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marco tephlant)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3C509B NIC Problem...try this ....
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:26:18 +0100
In article <7h9u8k$q6r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Marco,
> No. Won't hurt it in windows. That's what I've done with mine.
>
> However, [group], I still can't get my card to work in Linux. Using Debian
> 2.0.36.
>
> In searching the Web I see that I should add some info to the conf.modules
> file, but when I vi it the header says not to edit that file directly.
>
> Instead it points me to files in /etc/modutils. I'm not sure which ones to
> change, and have made some changes anyway, and it doesn't work.
>
> Does anyone know what files Debian gets module info from on boot???
I don't know if this has any relevance but I switched off plug and play
and used the dos configuration utility to change the irq to 5 and hey
presto it works,
--
Marco
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From: Peter Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help. "Bringing up eth0" Fails!
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:30:28 -0400
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What's happening is that the driver module for your ethernet card is not
getting loaded. This might be because cardmgr is running after the
ethernet initialization and therefore the system doesn't know about the
card when it tries to initialize it. Another possibility is that the
module never got built, or isn't installed in the right place
(/lib/modules/<kernel_version>).
Hope this helps ---
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From: Morten Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring IPv6
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:30:32 GMT
Hi,
I am running a RedHat 6.0 distribution on which I am trying to setup
IPv6. I have copiled a new kernel and downloaded new IPv6 copatible
software such as ping, traceroute, finger and so on. However I cannot
find a guide that tells how to configure my IPv6 mashine, if somebody
can help me I would be very grateful.
Sincerely
Morten Lund
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Finn Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: isp's fair use policy
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:12:56 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> I would like to be able to access my linux box at home over the
> >> internet. The problem is that my ISP has a "fair use" policy, so they
> >> don't like it when I leave my computer dialed in all day. Has anyone
> >> setup or know how to setup my linux box so I can call the line that the
> >> modem is connected to via a voice line, have it ring but not answer,
> >> then wait until the line is free and dial my ISP? Or can anyone think
> >> of a better solution?
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't think my ISP likes me
> >> being logged in for over 20 hours a day.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ben
Check out xringd:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/comm/xringd.html
I haven't managed to get it working on any non-debian system but it`s
probably worth a try.
Finn
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From: Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Null Cable For Ethernet
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:42:40 -0700
Mike,
Most certainly you are referring to a crossover cable. A crossover
cable is to connect 2 (only 2, wont work with 3+) via Twised pair media.
You can also make an adapter (or possibly purchase one, The Norvac's in
my neighborhood actually has an adapter now!) for standard
(non-crossover) cables. If you can find the crossover cable, thats the
best soloution, In my case i had to make an adapter, because I couldnt
find a crossover cable to save my life!
The twisted pair cable connects to pins 1,2,3,6 to 3,6,1,2
respectively. Check out this site:
http://www.net-engineer.com/ethernet10basetcrossover.html
it seems to hve a nice diagram of them.
Jamie
mike wrote:
> I have heard that one can modify a standard twisted pair ethernet
> cable to allow two computers to connect with each other without
> using a hub. Can one purchase such a cable. Is a " patch cable "
> such a cable?
> Mike
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