Linux-Networking Digest #336, Volume #11 Sun, 30 May 99 12:13:44 EDT
Contents:
External modem dials out but only connects at 1200 then dies? (David Cohen)
Re: 3Com external ISDN TA, B1 only ("Garry Wellman")
Re: 3com 3c900 (Rev. 0) and Redhat 6.0 (root)
sendmail simple question (Patrick)
Re: Problem Getting Mail ... Please Help ! (Desmond Coughlan)
PPP server authentication problems ("Carl Filpo")
Problem writing to NFS volume (Malcolm Locke)
Re: direcpc with linux redaht 6.0 ("Bob Rakov")
Help! PPP Dialin routing problem (Frank)
sane and networks (Rage-DCA)
Help! PPP Dialin routing problem (Frank)
Re: God of Networking (or demon) needed to help! ("William B. Cattell")
i am confused (Patrick)
samba speed problems (Torsten Mack)
error when sending mail (Patrick)
Re: RHL6, Samba 2.0.3 NO Workee! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Win95 client/Linux PPP server problems... please help! (Clifford Kite)
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From: David Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: External modem dials out but only connects at 1200 then dies?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 05:22:15 -0700
I have an external USR Sportster 33.6K (not Winmodem)
that I can get to dial out with minicom to my shell account, but all
that happens is that the modem makes an immediate connection at 1200
baud and then...sits there until it dies about a minute later.
Once or twice after playing with the minicom settings, I got
it to spit back some gibberish at me after connecting before
it dies.
All I want at this point is to get a normal speed connection
to my dial up account since, if I can't do that, I assume that
PPP will be impossible.
In minicom, I set the port speed to 115200 and I did the same
with...I think it was stty. The modem is on COM2 (IRQ4 I think).
I changed init strings a few times, using the minicom default
and then using AT&F and AT&F1.
And, of course, it is set at 8N1.
Any ideas?
TIA,
___
DC
P.S. If there's anything extra that I will need to do for PPP to
get the modem working at full speed, please let me know too.
cohen_at_primenet.com (replace "_at_" with the "at" sign)
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From: "Garry Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com external ISDN TA, B1 only
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:09:14 -0500
Heh,
I have a 3com Externel Impact IQ TA, and I had the same problem in red
hat. I used slackware for a short while, and somehow it used up both
channels not just one. I think there were different initialization strings
involved.
Charles Swank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey there,
>
> I'm looking for suggestions on how to get my 3Com external ISDN TA to
> bind both chanels. 1 B chanel is all I can get. I know I need to use PAP
> to use multilink PPP but this thing absolutely won't bind. It will bind
> both chanels everytime if I use it on my Windblows box (but what good is
> that?) and I've checked that my init string isn't doing anything wierd
> like whackin S80 down to zero. The box is running RH 5.2 and as far as I
> know if you use PAP and make sure multilink is turned on in the TA
> (S80=1) then it can be used just like an external modem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Charles
>
>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com 3c900 (Rev. 0) and Redhat 6.0
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:31:45 -0400
Cliff wrote:
> I've seen the same problem on a Packard Bell with a 3Com 905b. Linux ran
> fine in spite of it. Since the mobo chip set had a work around written for
> it (saw that in the kernel configurator) I figured it was a PCI problem on
> the mobo and not the NIC. Don't know if that helps you though.
>
> --
> -Cliff
> Views expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer
> Concordia Net, Inc. When replying via email please use; cwheat at concordia
> dot net not
> root@localhost
>
> Peter Bekatoros wrote in message <7imoln$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >On bootup (and then after) I'm receiving the following message:
> >
> >eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
> >eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered - IRQ blocked by another device?
> >
> >I've checked my logs as well as /proc/interrupts and the nic is definitely
> >receiving an interrupt. Module 3c59x is loading correctly too. I've tried
> >changing the first available IRQ in the BIOS as well as moving the card
> >around and still get the same message. The PNP OS bios setting is disabled
> >also. If I don't ifdown the nic, I eventually get a core dump. The only
> >other card in the system is an ATI Mach64 VT PCI card.
> >
> >System: DFI VPM586 Dual Pentium (133x2)
> > VLSI Chipset
> > CMD 646 rev. 1 IDE Controller
> > 64M Ram
> > 3.2 Gig EIDE HD
> >
> >Anybody have any ideas? The card worked fine under Redhat 5.1 (2.0.34)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Pete Bekatoros ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >Fresh Meadow Mechanical Corp.
> >
> >
> >
Yeah, you might be right. This motherboard is known to have PCI problems under
certain conditions. I'll try compiling my own kernel to see if there is a
workaround for this chipset.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: sendmail simple question
Date: 30 May 1999 13:33:18 GMT
hello
my domain name is patrick.com, which is not a registered domain
it is just for my testing, i ensure that i have configured DNS
correctly by testing with nslookup, and MX record is set:
MX 10 myhost.patrick.com.
when i use pine to send mail, i type "root" as the e-mail
address, the mail is sent successfully, but when i use
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the e-mail address, it is not successful.
I have put 127.0.0.1 as the first domain name server in
resolv.conf
any idea?
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From: Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Problem Getting Mail ... Please Help !
Date: 30 May 1999 15:39:54 +0200
kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite) writes:
> : I still can't get my e-mail. This morning, I ran fetchmail -v as
> : normal, and saw five messages arriving as normal. I then went into
> : Emacs, and activated RMAIL. No new messages. I telnetted to port 110
> : of my ISP's mailserver, and saw that the messages were gone.
[snip]
> Probably /dev/null. I *think* what you need is to set the mda parameter
> under the defaults section. Probably not. Here's my mda line:
Since posting my question, my brother forwarded an error message that
he received, when trying to e-mail me:
--- INCLUDED TEXT ---
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at bouvreuil.cybercable.fr.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
--- END INCLUDED TEXT ---
This is the same thing that happened before, i.e., my mail was getting
sent out as coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet I didn't change my sendmail.cf file since the last time. Note
that he only gets this message when he *replies* to one of my
e-mails. So the question is now: why is my server sending messages
with that in the headers? Moreover, why can't I get my mail?
Thanks.
--
Desmond Coughlan |Restez zen ... Linux peut le faire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[www site under construction]
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Reply-To: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP server authentication problems
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:02:59 +0800
I'm trying to setup a PPP server on a Debian 2.1 system.
I seem to have a problem with authenticating the user name and
password.
Anybody know what this message means (from the system log):
May 30 19:23:57 emissary pppd[1017]: peer authentication required but no
suitable secret(s) found
May 30 19:23:57 emissary pppd[1017]: for authenticating peer
emissary-dialin-0 to us (emissary)
This error happens after i've logged in from a Windows98 client and entered
username and password from a terminal window, followed by the statement:
"exec /user/sbin/pppd -detach"
--
Carl Filpo
Computer Network Consultant
=================================================
Carl Filpo BSc(Curtin)
Computer Network Consultant
C&M Computer Solutions
26 Russell St
MORLEY WA 6062
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 08 9375 1144
Fax: +61 08 9375 1141
Mobile: 0407 396 316
=================================================
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From: Malcolm Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem writing to NFS volume
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:53:05 +0100
I have two machines, RH6 nfs server and suse 6.0 client. The related fil=
es are=0D
as follows:=0D
=0D
Server:=0D
[/etc/exports]=0D
/home/mp3 twoboots (rw,no_root_squash,map_static=3D/etc/nfs.id.map)=
=0D
=0D
[/etc/nfs.id.map]=0D
# remote local=0D
uid 1000 500 #me=0D
gid 100 500 #users=0D
=0D
=0D
Client:=0D
[/etc/fstab]=0D
gigabeat:/home/mp3 /gigabeat nfs rw,noauto,user,hard,intr 0 =
0
I have no problem mounting the server from the client but when I try to w=
rite
=0Dto it, even as root, I get=0D=20
# mount /gigabeat
# touch /gigabeat/test
touch: /gigabeat/test: Read-only file system=0D
=0D
I have tried fiddling with everything, including removing the reference t=
o
map_static and have had no joy. I've read all the=0D relevent man pages =
and the
nfs howto, but still no dice. What am I missing?=0D =0D
Mal=0D
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From: "Bob Rakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: direcpc with linux redaht 6.0
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:14:38 GMT
==========
In article <3tS33.172$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ben Marsh"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to setup direcpc on their linux systems? I have been
> unable to find anything about setting this up, and the direcpc tech people
> aren't exactly helpful.
I did it with RH 5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 using the Helius software. It will
not work with RH 6.0 because the Helius software does not support the 2.2x
kernel series. Too bad.
-bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Help! PPP Dialin routing problem
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:45:44 +0200
Hello,
I am running a linux box (SuSE 6.1 Kernel 2.2.5) as a dialin
server/gateway (192.168.10.11). Its connected to a local network
(192.168.10.0) via ethernet and there is a modem attached to this box for
dialin users (they get 192.168.10.32).
Before I upgraded from SuSE 5.3 Kernel 2.0.36 everything was working
fine, but now the ppp dial in users can only reach the gateway but not
the whole local network anymore.
I have enabled the proxyarp option in pppd's options file and arp gives
the following output:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
Iface
ppp032.foo.com * * MP eth0
changing this to the 5.3 output didnt work as well:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
Iface
ppp032.foo.com ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx CM eth0
here is my routing:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
211.44.192.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ippp0
192.168.10.11 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0
lo
255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.10.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 211.44.192.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ippp0
211.44.192.1 is the route to my ISP (not real numbers!)
What am I doing wrong?
Can anybody help me enabling the dialin user to reach the network again?
Thanx,
Frank
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From: Rage-DCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sane and networks
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:03:32 GMT
i'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup to ask this in, but i was
wondering if someone could give me some pointers about my scanner. i'm
using sane which is the best i've found so far (let me know if there is
something better). ok, here goes my questions.
a) sometimes the scanner is not on when i reboot my computer meaning
that when linux initalizes my scsi card it does not detect the scanner.
is there a way to still be able to turn it on and then have the scsi
card find it. right now if i turn it on, it still says there are no
scanners connected. only way i know how to fix it is reboot and i can't
do that often.
b) also, i had a question about the umax scanner drivers. they give a
list of enhancement arguments for the command line, but i can't seem to
get any of them to work (i.e. --brightness). does anyone know how i
might fix this since my scanner scans to dark?
thx for the help, peace.
--
Jason Osborne (Rage-DCA)
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- http://rage.dynip.com
- LinuxInside - I run it, do you?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Help! PPP Dialin routing problem
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:46:31 +0200
Hello,
I am running a linux box (SuSE 6.1 Kernel 2.2.5) as a dialin
server/gateway (192.168.10.11). Its connected to a local network
(192.168.10.0) via ethernet and there is a modem attached to this box for
dialin users (they get 192.168.10.32).
Before I upgraded from SuSE 5.3 Kernel 2.0.36 everything was working
fine, but now the ppp dial in users can only reach the gateway but not
the whole local network anymore.
I have enabled the proxyarp option in pppd's options file and arp gives
the following output:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
Iface
ppp032.foo.com * * MP eth0
changing this to the 5.3 output didnt work as well:
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
Iface
ppp032.foo.com ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx CM eth0
here is my routing:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
211.44.192.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ippp0
192.168.10.11 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0
lo
255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.10.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 211.44.192.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ippp0
211.44.192.1 is the route to my ISP (not real numbers!)
What am I doing wrong?
Can anybody help me enabling the dialin user to reach the network again?
Thanx,
Frank
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: God of Networking (or demon) needed to help!
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:31:57 GMT
Brian Livesey wrote:
>
> I'm having a weird problem with my home computer's networking.
> Networking just freezes suddenly; a full halt. I get no kernel messages
> re: it. To bring the connection back up, I have to bring the interface
> down, bring it back up, and reroute. Then, the network will work for
> another two to twenty minutes or so, then freeze again. Wiping the
> routing table & re-entering the routes won't fix the problem.
>
> My computer is a 486/66 running Debian linux, kernel 2.0.36. My
> networking setup is a cable-modem connected to an isa smc-etherEZ 10bT
> ethernet card.
>
> I have run tcpdump a few times while the network is functioning, and
> have three logs that begin with normal network functionality, and stop
> at the moment networking became non-responsive. If these would be
> helpful in diagnosing this problem, they are:
>
> http://members.home.net/elaura/dump1.txt
> http://members.home.net/elaura/dump2.txt
> http://members.home.net/elaura/dump3.txt
>
> I have used this computer with all the same hardware like this for
> weeks, and networking worked just fine, the computer running 24/7, never
> needing resetting. I'm not sure if this condition is a result of
> something I may have changed, or something that has changed in my
> provider's network.
>
> That's as much info as I can think of! Thank you thank you thank you in
> advance to all replies. :)
One thought - could the NIC be going bad? I've seen this a bunch of
times and in the majority of the cases it turned out to be faulty
hardware. Systems running 24x7 over long periods will burn up ICs.
Just a thought.
Bill
--
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http://members.home.com/wcattell
==============================================================
Park not thy Harley in the darkness of thine garage, that it
may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy Harley
with thy brethren, and rejoice in the spirit of the road.
==============================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: i am confused
Date: 30 May 1999 14:52:40 GMT
I am confused with the terms.
I know ip masquerading, ip forwarding and port forwarding are different
but i cannot tell the difference
can anymore tell me how they differs?
--
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 17:18:27 +0200
From: Torsten Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba speed problems
hi,
I got samba running on a P2450 256MB, 9UWSCSI, Vortex Controller and I
am experiencing speed problems on the clients. Sometimes the donload of
big files (>10MB) is o.k. the next time it�s extremly slow. Running
large aplications on the samba server is very slow as well...
Does anyone have an idea how to increase the performance or does anyone
have the same problems...
thanx
Torsten
--
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre
minds" (Albert Einstein)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: error when sending mail
Date: 30 May 1999 14:22:59 GMT
when i use pine to send mail
it shows me the error at the bottom
Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 Cannot open DBM database /etc/virtus
but the mode of the /etc/virtusertable* are already 777
any idea? thx
--
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:42:51 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RHL6, Samba 2.0.3 NO Workee!
Well first of all Steve, thanks for the kind offer of assistance. I think I
MAY have most of it licked, but I'm a little confused as to how I got here!
Using LinuxConf didn't work, editing the files by hand didn't work ~ but
then I enabled SWAT (suggest you edit the package description in the manual.
It seems to imply tha SWAT is enabled by the RPM inprocess) and found the
buttons for 'start smbd' and 'start nmbd'. I had previously verified my
/etc/services file for the netbios-ssn and netbios-ns entries and added
entries to inetd.conf to start these services - but that didn't seem to work
--- any thoughts?
Starting these service manually makes the exported share 'connectable', but
not 'browseable' at this point. At least I can use smbclient on the RHL box
or 'net use' on the Win98 box to verify that SOMETHING is 'there'.
I still have some work to do figuring out why my passwords don't seem to
'take', but that's likely 'pilot error' at this point. My biggest issues are
getting the smbd and nmbd services to start automatically and to get
browsing working. You can assume that other than what I've documented so
far, that this is a RHL 6.0 'workstation' with SAMBA installed using RPM.
TIA
W.A. Scheer
Steve Smoogen wrote:
> Hi what kind of problems are you experiencing? (Text errors would be the
> most helpful.) Thanks
>
> On Mon, 17 May 1999 11:58:36 -0700, W.A. Scheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've done a 'workstation' load of RHL and added SAMBA using RPM. I've
> >tried everythiing under the sun and can't seem to get the danged thing
> >working!
> >
> >The smbclient util seems to work OK, but I can't use smbmount worth a
> >darn. Taking the opposite approach, setting up the smb.conf doesn't get
> >me any MS98 readable shares - they don't even show up in the browsw
> >list.
> >
> >This is my first REAL try at using SAMBA. Any pointers? Suggestions? is
> >this 'broken' under RHL6? I'm using the following books as my
> >references:
> >
> >1) Teach Yourself SAMBA in 24 Hours (Sams)
> >2) Samba (SSC)
> >3) Linux Network Toolkit (IDG)
> >
> >It all seem very straightforward - but 'no go'
> >TIA
> >W.A. Scheer
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> SJS -- Red Hat Technical Support
> [Please be aware I cannot always answer email directly emailed at me. I
> try to answer on the news groups for more people to see the information
> and correct me if I am wrong :)]
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Win95 client/Linux PPP server problems... please help!
Date: 30 May 1999 09:35:33 -0500
Teri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am trying to set up a ppp server on my Debian Linux v2.1 box, using
: a Win/9x dial-up networking client. The win/9x client is
: set with all the defaults. I get a modem connection, but
: can't get past the "Verifying username and password" screen on
: the windows box. The connection eventually times out. My configuration
: and log files are below. I do notice a "Unknown Linux-PAM error"
: but do not know (being the newbie that I am) how to fix it. Any help
: would be greatly appreciated.
It looks to me like the PAM is intercepting the PAP authentication
messages, holding them until a LCP message arrives, and then releasing
them in a flood. The LCP message is a Terminate-Request that comes
*after* the peer has thrown in the towel because the PAP authentication
failed. The flood of AuthAcks does no good at that point.
You could replace the PAM with an updated one as the message says,
and hope, or you could remove the PAM stuff altogether. The message
in the PAP message concerning PAM is *not* from pppd, the PAM must have
inserted it after grabbing the message from pppd, _very_misleading_ .
Be aware (and beware) that this is a *guess* based on what's in the logs,
I don't run Debian or do PAM.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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