Linux-Networking Digest #233, Volume #11 Fri, 21 May 99 19:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: IP Masq. for Remote LAN ("Edmond Cheng")
Re: Small private network woes ("Curt")
Re: Login Incorrect (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Re: is vnc video card independent ? (Bruce Stephens)
Re: smbmount trouble (Vincent)
Re: How to make my Linux box a terminal to talk on serial port ttySx... ("D. C. & M.
V. Sessions")
Re: What is minimal machine to run as router/gateway/web-/mail-server? (Francois
Magnan)
Building a Virtual Comport ("Jim D.")
Ethernet driver (Pablo Yepes)
Re: IP Masq. for Remote LAN (killagee)
Re: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt... ("Jamalludin Ab. Rahman")
Re: Colors... (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Re: smbmount trouble (Vincent)
Re: 100Mbps Ethernet trouble (OldUncleMe)
Re: denying access to certain websites (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Can't add route in OL 2.2 (Don Heffernan)
Re: Red Hat 5.2 ("Jamalludin Ab. Rahman")
AutoMount configure for SAMBA (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Re: PPP server question??? (Eric)
Re: Networking the Internet with Linux (OldUncleMe)
Ark products (kidlinux)
Cable or 56k Modem ("Tom Monaghan")
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From: "Edmond Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masq. for Remote LAN
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:10:52 GMT
The local LAN accepts both Input and Output packets. I did not have the
bidirectional mode rule and will try it soon.
Thanks,
Edmond
killagee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> you left out a switch--
> ipfwadm -F -a m -b -S 192.168.2.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
>
> you left out the -b in your post.. dont know if you did in your config or
not..
> I have done this before and it worked fine. You seem to have all your
bases
> covered.
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small private network woes
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:39:51 -0500
on host 192.168.1.2 run
route del default
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
<James R. Barnett>; Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Also make sure that you can ping the other machines first -- if you
cannot, even
> >with the numbers ('ping 192.168.1.1'), then the basic network or the ip
is not
> >working -- fix that first.
> >
> Actually, I can't ping by name or ip. That is the problem.
>
> here is the output of route -n by arson (192.168.1.1):
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
> 208.128.7.17 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 3
eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 208.128.7.17 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 8
ppp0
>
> here is ifconfig:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:0B:50:2F
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:208.128.7.90 P-t-P:208.128.7.17 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:342 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> Memory:12ec038-12ecc04
>
> here is the output of route -n by tireiron (192.168.1.2):
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
> 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 144
eth0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 5
eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 15 lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 26
eth0
>
> Here is the ifconfig for tireiron:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:104337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:104337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:0C:9E:1C
> inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
>
> I think the gateway is wrong on tireiron's route, but I am not sure how to
> change it. I know it is not the ethernet cards. What am I missing? Thanks
for
> the help.
>
> James
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From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Login Incorrect
Date: 21 May 99 13:01:08 GMT
Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WEll I had something like that.. not "Login Incorrect" but u never able
to login.. this due to wrong version library
: Hi Greg,
: you wrote:
:> When attempting to login as ANY user (root included) I get "Login
:> Incorrect".
:>
:> usernames/passwords are NOT the issue
: You may have a version of login not matching the method used on your to
: store passwords. Reinstall login from the distribution or do recompile
: it properly.
:> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are NOT the issue either as FTP
:> access works just fine
: It's true that /etc/hosts.* are not the issue in this case. But not
: because FTP does work fine. One can select services and hosts in these
: files. But access is denied due to the content of those files the
: connection is simple dropped. The client will get a message like
: "Connection closed by foreign host."
: Malware
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smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[External]
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.os-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: is vnc video card independent ?
Date: 21 May 1999 23:10:59 +0100
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Problem I can get the vnc server running on NT and
> Linux but there seems to be another problem.
>
> Question is vnc video card independent ?
Yes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent)
Subject: Re: smbmount trouble
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:00:25 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Vincent wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Piii-1: This is the computer name shown in NT's Network Properties
> [snip]
>
> I would try "smbclient -L piii-1" to see a list of shares availible. (if
> that doesn't work try some variations like: Piii-1, etc.) To mount a
> share, try (as root):
> #smbmount //[host name]/[name of share] -c 'mount /path/to/mount/point'
> note: the mount point must already exist.
>
> Good luck,
> Qubes
>
Thanks, Qubes. First off, I can't find "smbclient" anywhere. I get a
"command not found" message.
So I tried your next suggestion:
1) #smbmount //PIII-1/C/Dell -c foo mount /mnt/server
resulting in this linux message: "could not find mount point -c"
2) So I tried: #smbmount //PIII-1/C/Dell /mnt/server -c foo
resulting in this message: "PIII-1 unknown host The -I option may be
useful"
3) Then I tried: #smbmount //PIII-1/C/Dell /mnt/server -I 193.196.50.4
[the NT server's IP address]" I also tried this command using the linux
client's IP address.
I was asked for a password which I gave. It's my login pw on the NT
machine.
resulting in the same message I got all day yesterday, which was:
"smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
mount error - Invalid argument
Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons"
Do you notice anything I could have done incorrectly? Thanks.
Vince
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make my Linux box a terminal to talk on serial port ttySx...
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:59:29 -0700
Sascha Ulbrand wrote:
>
> "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > minicom appears to only want to talk to modems.
>
> That's definitely not true. I'm using it with a nullmodem. You might want to
> delete the init strings for the modem from the preferences...
>
> > Is there a version of telnet that will talk with a
> > ttySx port instead of using TCP/IP?
>
> Use minicom
Minicom setups are ASCII -- post examples, please.
Much more instructional.
--
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+---------- D. C. & M. V. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------+
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Subject: Re: What is minimal machine to run as router/gateway/web-/mail-server?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francois Magnan)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:39:54 GMT
On 05/20/99, "walt" wrote:
>As little as a P133, 16M, 250M + data space, CD ROM will do it under
RedHat
>5. I used that for ADSL at 1.1 meg download rate! (I need much more
>resources to run console xwindows than serving tcp/ip packets.) You
might
>want to get two NIC's that you know will run under the drivers in
your
>distribution, rather than the cheapest generic cards. Otherwise plan
on
>spending some time finding the right drivers.
>
> -w.
>
>N. Santoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><7i26qp$hha$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Hello, I am trying to set up a Linux machine on a pentium to use
with a
>DSL line
>> as a router/gateway/web/mail server. I am trying to keep costs
down. What
>would
>> you recommend as an adequate system? The web page will probably be
pretty
>basic, no dhtml,
>> or major auctions going on. BUt I do want to run a mail server off
it,
>maybe even POP. Can
>> I get by with a PI-200? Is a Pentium II 233 overkill? Is this
possible to
>do in around $350?
>> (2 NICs, 4 GB, 32 RAM, CDROM, no monitor [have one already])? Is
Celeron
>the way to go?
>> Thanks for any info or suggestions.
>>
>>
>
My router for 1M ADSL is a 486(33Mhz) with 8MB of memory and 260MB HD.
This is plenty sufficient for the router/firewall part.
For a Web server it depends. But you can have a more powerfull
internal machine be your web server.
P1 200 is too much for this. You will waste a machine.
Francois Magnan
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______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
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From: "Jim D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Building a Virtual Comport
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:46:17 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I am suppose to build an application that perform a lot of statistics
about a PPP connexion ! For this purpose, I would be able to talk
to the modem via AT commands during the ppp connexion. According to
me, a great solution would be to create a virtual com port, with which
pppd will talk instead of the real one. A program would redirect all
data
recieved on the virtual com to the real one, until the moment I want to
talk to my modem. Then we enable CTS to tell pppd to resend later data
and we stop redirecting data to the real port ! We can now send +++,
and AT commands to the modem to the modem ! After this, we would return
in online data mode, redirect again the data and disable CTS !
Does anybody know if there is already such an application ? Does anybody
find good this idea, think it's possible, and can giving me advises to
build this application ? Does anybody have an other (better or not)
solution ?
Thanks !
Jim
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From: Pablo Yepes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:02:03 -0500
Hello,
We have several Dell Dual Pentium machines connected with 100MBit
ethernet. They have the 3Com 3c905 card.
I would like to send raw ethernet packets between two machines at a
low level. I mean without using high level protocols like tcp, ftp or
similar. I would like to know whether there are example programs at both
ends of how to do that. Or at least some guidance of where I should
start.
Thank you,
Pablo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (killagee)
Subject: Re: IP Masq. for Remote LAN
Date: 21 May 1999 15:16:18 GMT
you left out a switch--
ipfwadm -F -a m -b -S 192.168.2.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
you left out the -b in your post.. dont know if you did in your config or not..
I have done this before and it worked fine. You seem to have all your bases
covered.
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From: "Jamalludin Ab. Rahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt...
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:11:17 +0800
It indicates that the driver had too much work during interrupt cycle. Check
whether there is other device conflicting with the interrupt. Can try
/proc/interrupts
Jamal
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Brand new installation of Red Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan), Kernel 2.0.35
>
> When booting I get this exact error message over and over...
>
> eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011
>
> This spits out onto the screen several times during boot-up and a few
times
> even after my login banner appears.
>
> Occaisionally it will appear while logged in/working...
>
> Any thoughts?? Thanks!
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From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Colors...
Date: 21 May 99 12:16:40 GMT
vagrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is anther low level color setting... thats hacking linux kernel
.if you're intersted pls do email me.. I don't hv the setting right now
...
: root wrote:
:> How can I set the back/foreground colors for each of my console screens
:> (F1 through F6)??
:>
:> I remember doing this when setting up SCO Unix boxes YEARS ago....
:>
:> Any suggestions???
:>
:> Thanks!
: man console_codes . that has all of the info on setting console
: properties.
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==========
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[Internal Linux System]
http://eplx01/suthan/
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[External]
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smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent)
Subject: Re: smbmount trouble
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:07:39 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>
Stephen:
> Stephen wrote:
> You need to tell the NT server what your username is. Use the -U option to
> do this. Also be certain the directory your are trying to mount is shared
> and the username you are trying to mount it with has permissions to mount
> the share.
I'm trying the smbmount as root on linux box. I've used -U root and
received the same error message, namely:
"smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
mount error - Invalid argument
Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons"
> Unfortunatly the mount command is not to helpful whenthere is an error.
You're telling me!?!
Thanks.
Vince
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: 100Mbps Ethernet trouble
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:39:49 GMT
It was: 21 May 1999 00:36:11 GMT and with STARTLING insight,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Kim)" posted "Re: 100Mbps Ethernet
trouble" to "comp.os.linux.networking" :
-->Frank Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
-->: > Now, I'm trying out Fast Ethernet. I just got a generic FastEthernet card
-->: > for my Win98 machine and connected it to a 100/10 autoswitching hub. The
-->: > new hub seems to work fine for all machines except for the Linux box. All
-->: ...
-->
-->: normally you need a switch not a hub for connection at different speeds and
-->: normally an autowitchting hub means, that it would detect the speed
-->: automatically for the whole hub (NOT FOR EVERY SINGLE PORT!!! - this does
-->: only a switch)
-->
-->: HTH
-->: Frank
-->
-->From reading the manual, it seems to be able to combine both 10bT and
-->100bT networks on the same hub. But even if what Frank is saying is true,
-->it still doesn't explain why it's only the Linux machine that has trouble
-->when it's hooked up to the 10/100 autoswitching hub.
-->John D. Kim
Some hubs will autosense 100/10 on a port by port basis, according to
literature. It might be worth it to try a crossover connection from the
linux box to another known working box directly to eliminate the hub and
any other equipment in the troubleshooting path. If this works, then the
nic & networking in the linux box will be known to be good. /ts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: denying access to certain websites
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:46:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Elsesser wrote:
>I am setting up a RH5.2 linux machine in my childrens school as an
>http server and also ip forwarding for internet access. The principal
>is wary of the kids abusing the internet, gettting access to sites
>they should not be allowed to view (it's a K-8 parochial school).
>While I have the server set up for dial out and ipforwarding, I don't
>know how to keep them from viewing the undesirable sites. I have used
>/etc/hosts.deny and hosts.allow for individual ip's, but that seems to
>be quite a daunting task to find *all* the sex sites and put them into
>a file. What would be the best way for me to go about this?
No way. It has nothing to do with hosts.deny / hosts.allow anyway. You
can install a proxy or even a small Perl script in between that disallows
certain URL's. Some guy in my former company wrote something like that
and they used it with squid. It is probably still available on their
ftp server.
To be sure though ... let them not surf alone. Might be a good idea
anyway, if only to show them how to make the best use of the WWW and
other things, like why not everything is true what is to be found
there.
If done right the interest in other stuff will be not that high I
guess, though you're not going to be able to avoid it ... you must
"just" handle it in a decent way and this is probably the most
daunting task.
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Heffernan)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Can't add route in OL 2.2
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:41:04 GMT
On Thu, 20 May 1999 18:42:53 -0500, "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>post results of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -nr'
>
>Don Heffernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I just installed Caldera OL 2.2. - naturally nothing went right with
>> its Lizard install so I used the older Lisa method and got a
>> bassically working box, except thta I can't get my network working.
>> Eth0 didn't initially install so I added it with ifconfig. I couldn't
>> ping the rest of my home LAN or my Internet gateway (I have this
>> machine and a RH 5.2 box connected to DSSL through a hub and then a
>> bridge. I was getting the mesage "SIOCADDRT: network unreachable" I
>> noted that nothing but the lo interface was in the routing table so I
>> tried to add a static route to the RH 5.2 box. I continue to get the
>> same SIOCADDRT: network is unreachable error whenever I try to add the
>> static route or a default route to the gateway address. Any
>> suggestions?
I fixed it. I got on the chat line at linux.com and someone mentioned
that I could add an argument at the end of ifconfig to go through dev
eth0. That solved the problem. I didn't notice the /dev eth0 bit in
the man pages.
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From: "Jamalludin Ab. Rahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 5.2
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:13:48 +0800
Try checking some tips regarding 3c509b at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html
Good luck.
Jamal
Arthur Merar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a 3COM 3C509B and I'm running Linux Red Hat
> 5.2. I cannot seem to do anything with the card.
>
> I have a Windows 98 machine and they are all on
> the hub and each has it's own IP. I cannot seem
> to ping anything.
>
> Does Red Hat not like this type of NIC or do I
> need a new driver??
>
> Please send e-mail.....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arthur
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AutoMount configure for SAMBA
Date: 21 May 99 15:11:11 GMT
Hi Netlanders,
I need some help for samba mounting. I know how samba mount manually
well. Is there option to mount using automount... if there is pls do
let me know..
Thank You Very Much...
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[Internal Linux System]
http://eplx01/suthan/
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[External]
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smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP server question???
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:16:13 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Ivan,
I am also want to setup a PPP Server in Linux for test our project in
University.
But, I am a dummy in setting this.
Would you please to teach me what do I need in setting this ?
And I wish you can give me all the files that will be use in Linux.
Such the /etc/ppp/options , etc........
Would you please to send them to me to Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ????
Best regards,
Eric
Ivan Liu wrote:
> Hi,
> I build up a PPP server (IP:172.18.22.19) on RatHat5.2+pppd+mgetty,
> but after I dial-up and login from W95 client (IP assign by ppp
> server:172.18.22.176),
> I found W95 gateway always 172.18.22.176!! netmask always 255.255.0.0!!
> How can I setup W95 client gateway to 172.18.22.254(ppp server's
> gateway)???
> Now I can only ping machines in subnet 172.18.22.*.....
> /etc/ppp/options files contains:
> asyncmap 0
> lock
> debug
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> ms-dns 172.18.22.11
> passive
> crtscts
> proxyarp
> modem
> /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1 file contains:
> :172.18.22.176
> Thanks for help....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: Networking the Internet with Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:50:21 GMT
It was: Fri, 21 May 1999 01:43:43 GMT and with STARTLING insight,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" posted "Re: Networking the Internet with Linux" to
"comp.os.linux.networking" :
-->I'm looking at doing pretty much the same thing, except i have adsl and
-->would like to put up the linux box and a windows box both hooked up to
-->the net. I'm thinking of just using a hub with an uplink, will i need
-->to use ip masquerading or a proxy of some sort as my ISP only gives me
-->one IP....
-->
-->Bryce
-->
--> Brian Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-->> Ok. I have a whole summer to complete this project, and I will need
-->it
-->> as I am totally unfamiliar with Linux or Unix.
-->>
-->> But this is what I want to do. I want to network 3 or 4 Windows 95
-->PC's
-->> through a Linux box to distribute the internet between them through a
-->> single internet connection, running through a cable modem on the Linux
-->> machine.
-->>
-->> My first question is what distrib. of Linux will work the best for me?
-->> And second, can anyone recommend any reference material to get me on
-->my
-->> way?
-->>
-->> thanks,
-->> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you use the uplink port --> to the cable modem or adsl modem you need an
ip# for *each computer on the hub. Better to get a single ip # from the
isp and run the cable modem/adsl adapter to one computer, either to a nic,
as with cable usually, or if the adsl adapter is internal, install in one
computer, which in either case will route for the lan via a second nic,
this one, considered internal to the lan, goes to the hub all the rest of
the lan is connected to. Then you set up ip masquerading on the box
connected to both the lan and the internet (however it is connected to the
'net: modem, cable, adsl, isdn, etc.)
* it's my understanding that if each machine doesn't have a unique ip# and
you don't go through a box that routes between the two networks then all
traffic on the local network is also sent to the other network resulting in
a problem for that network (cable or adsl). The routing machine keeps lan
packets on the lan and forwards back and forth packets addressed from the
local net to other network addresses such as across the internet to a real
internet address. Thus, use private addresses on the lan such as the
range: 192.168.x.x Good luck, /ts
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From: kidlinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ark products
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:54:29 GMT
Has anyone had experience with Ark products? (http://www.arkpc.com)
I'm thinking of buying an 8port 10bT Ark HUB. Can anyone tell me if
they're any good? And should I have to worry about this HUB working
with Linux?
Thanx,
- kidlinux.
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From: "Tom Monaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cable or 56k Modem
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:21:25 -0400
I have a winmodem that, as we all know, does not talk to linux. I therefore
need to buy one with a controller (suggestions on what type, etc. would be
appreciated). Since I have to lay down the $$$ for a new modem I am also
considering a cable modem. Anyone use cable with linux? Is it compatible?
Please advise. Thanks.
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